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I don't know any more than you do about the Sydney Powell circumstance. I know a lot of people have been curious to know whether there is something beyond that which has been publicly reported. If there is, I'm unaware of it. I've made inquiries. I have not come up with anything more than. Than what? Than what, you know, and we don't deal with it as it as it unfolds and manifests itself as a bunch of different theories going around that she really is not going to stop working.

She's just dis assembling herself from the from the Trump team. I mean, it's a tough thing to deny that she was ever a part of it because they introduced her as part of it. I mean, she was at that press conference last week. The the problem with that press conference last week, FOX, it goes way beyond Sydney Powell. I mean, you're going to announce it, Mr. Certainly you tell me if you agree with me, I may be a little bit wrong on this.

I don't know. You announce a why are you smiling? Why? Because you think whatever I alluded to, the possibility of my being wrong, it's never the case that I'm wrong. Is that what you mean?

You call a gigantic press conference like that one that lasts an hour. And you announce. Massive bombshell's. Then you better have some bombshells, there better be something at that press conference other than what we got, such as a hacker who can tell us everything these guys have said is true. I've looked into it. I've looked I've run the software, I've hacked this, I've hacked that. Even put it behind a screen if you want to protect his identity.

But you don't. You can't. I talked to so many people who were blown away by it.

By the very nature of the press coverage, they promised blockbuster stuff and then nothing happened. And that's just that's not. Well, it's just it's not good. I mean, if you're going to if you're going to promise blockbuster stuff like that, then there now I understand. Look, I'm the one that's been telling everybody this stuff doesn't happen at warp speed, light speed, the way cases are made for presentation in court. But if you're going to do a press conference like that with the promise of blockbusters, then then there has to be something more than what that press conference delivered.

Now, Sidney Powell is supposedly out, jumped the shark, got out over the skis, but apparently she's still going to be working along with Lin Wood, trying to make the case that she says is there to be made all along. Time, of course, is of the essence now as it is speedily vanishing. So they're going to have to act fast. In the meantime, I don't know about you, but I'd kind of like to see President Trump and Georgia.

I'd like to see some rallies, I'm not alone in this. We've got two Senate seats that are very crucial, the runoffs, Perdue and the Loffler. We got to get these seats secured. Otherwise, the left is going to be able to well, they're not going to be stoppable and it's going to be dependent on what they want to do is to fire how far they may go. So those those two Senate races, Perdue Loffler, they're really crucial.

And I think Trump is still the Republican Party still Naggar. You still go down there and do some rallies and secured those two. And I don't mean yesterday or today. I mean, but the runoffs, the elections are on June the 5th. So time is of the essence, setting the table here. These are things we'll be discussing in greater detail as the program unfolds before your very eyes grab audio. Sound bite number three, we had a call on this program last Friday that apparently just took a lot of this country by storm.

This caller was in the last hour. And wait a minute, there were two was it resist the first Alberca. This is the first our caller. There was another one in the third hour that was along the same lines. The first our caller literally broke down in tears. He was distressed. Beyond his ability to express it, and that call had been tweeted, reproduced it. I mean, literally, I woke up Saturday morning and logged on the computer I had.

People out the wazoo telling me that that call had taken the country by storm. And I figured that had to be the case because that caller is being smeared now. By MSNBC. As a member of a cult. So this past weekend and this morning, we have a montage of Stephen Hussin, former FBI assistant director, Frank Findley, oozy Chris Hayes, Joy Reid, Joe Scarborough, all on MSNBC talking about the caller. His name was William in Ashburn, Virginia.

It happened on Friday.

The right wing authoritarian cults that are part of the cult of Trump is what's driving the mess that we're in right now.

If you apply kind of a cult like assessment to this, the cult continues because the leader continues in an amplified way.

I feel a profound sense of empathy for that man. Really, really smart people, sophisticated people end up in cults. Another Trump voter broke down, declaring his fealty to Trump in a teary call to Rush Limbaugh. They will die for him. People calling in to Rush Limbaugh saying they're ready to die for Donald Trump. Really? Is this Jonestown?

This again, you know, it shows that the the left in this country literally has made no effort to understand the seventy three million people of you. Seventy three million of you who voted for Trump, they have no desire to understand you. All they want to do really is ignore you and hope you'll go away. They really just want to find a way to dispatch you. They want to find a way to make you not even here make you irrelevant.

They don't want you to become a participating party, American political system. They just want to laugh at you, impugn you, put you down even when you are suffering and when you are in pain. And again, these are the people who claim to have all the compassion. These are the people who claim to have all the touchy feely awareness. They're the people that understand and the people that you can trust your feelings, too, because they will never, ever disabuse you.

And yet here they are laughing at this poor guy and making fun of it. I remember the call. The guy did break down in tears over how distraught he was. Combination of things didn't believe the election outcome was a little afraid nothing was going to be able to be done about it. By the way, speaking of the election outcome, do you know that we have had a solution? For this election madness for 15 years. Yep, we have had a proposal, we have had a recommendation from.

The deep state. From the denizens of the deep, we have had a proposal on the table for 15 years on how to prevent what happened in this election, Jimmy Carter and James Baker. Of the Bush political dynasty found all the answers to all the problems in 2005. So for the last 15 years, every single elected person in the swamp has failed this country. The Democrats took this as a roadmap. On September 19, 2005, former President Jimmy Carter returned to the White House to provide President George W.

Bush a copy of the report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform. Carter co chaired the commission with former Secretary of State James A. Baker. The third. And among their suggestions. This is 15 years ago, and this is just to show you how none of this stuff ever matters, it never sees the light of day. It's not done for any real purpose other than for people to say they did it, they worked on it. But it is never, ever to be actually applied.

Among the recommendations made by former President Carter and James A. Baker, the third they called in their proposal. They called on states to increase voter ID requirements. They warned of mail in voting. They were very leery of it. And they suggested that it would not be helpful. They defined and then recommended bringing to a halt the entire practice of ballot harvesting. They suggested ways of maintaining valid voter lists, voter registration forms, in part to ensure that deadend people are promptly removed from them.

They recommended allowing election observers to monitor ballot counting. And to make sure that voting machines were working properly before every election, they also wanted the media. To refrain from calling elections too early and from touting exit polls, folks, do you realize what this is? This is a road map that was written 15 years ago that was designed to specifically prevent everything that happened in the 2020 election. And it was created because there were problems in the 2000 election that led to Bush versus Gore.

And then, of course, there were problems in the 2004 election because that election failed to elect John F. Kerry. And so they put together that it's uncanny. It is uncanny, the story is even a daily signal seven ways the two thousand five Carter Baker report could have averted problems with the 2020 elections. They called on states to increase voter I.D. requirements to be leery of mail in voting, to halt ballot harvesting, to maintain accurate voter lists, to ensure that dead people were promptly removed from them.

They recommended allowing election observers to monitor ballot counting and to make sure voting machines are working properly. They also wanted the media. To refrain from calling elections too early and from touting exit exit polls, everything they recommended was ignored.

I am your host Rush Ball. I'm not surprised these things are never, ever actually followed. They're simple. This is classic illustration. We talked about it last week, a blue ribbon panel. Congress could have given a lot of weight to all this. If they would have engaged in something other than just a report, if there had been some actual legislation, it could have been entitled election reform.

But no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. All they did was farm it out. They farmed it out to some blue ribbon deep staters, Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker, the third, and these guys came back with exactly what was wrong. How to remedy exactly what was wrong, they even forecast and predicted what would go wrong 15 years later and they suggested ways to avoid it and not one.

The recommendations was followed, not one, so they knew. They knew and they know, in fact, one might go so far as to say that the recommendations in this report may have actually provided a road map of how to do it. Rather than a series of suggestions on how to prevent. Election problems, this might have been the roadmap for how to execute them, because it's eerie, folks, it's eerie. Every one of these seven recommendations is exactly a warning against what happened a brief time out.

Rush Limbaugh off and running will be back and continue after Mr. Certainly says last night was a sinking feeling all across Magga ville. Because of the Sydney Powell circumstances, that pretty much what you know, there's all kinds of speculation about what's going on with Sydney Powell, what what woman was she ever really a member of?

The team appears that she was did they really ask her to leave or is she some of the some of the drive by media think that it's impossible to be too conspiratorial for Trump and Giuliani. So the excuse being given that she's gone because even she's too wacko for them is being refuted because there's nothing to wacko for Trump. The trouble believing in Giuliani, believing. So the left is going nuts trying to figure it out, folks. The left is there.

Coming up with some of the most convoluted theories. I might share some of them with you. They're kind of funny. And one of them involve this fictitious old dragon like figure, the cracken or the Crake. And I don't know how you pronounce it.

I'm not big into that stuff, but they're going nuts trying to figure out what it means and if she's still secretly working on making all of this happen. While Trump tries to salvage some credibility by making it look like there is at least one clue that he will reject.

My friends also in Georgia, you know, I mentioned mere moments ago that it would be great if there were some Magga rallies in Georgia for the two Republican Senate candidates down there, because another one, the never Trump person you're running, the never Trump is are saying Mitch McConnell will let the country burn if it means electing these two people, if it means having a Republican majority, Senate Mitch McConnell will let this country burn cocain.

Mitch, they call him at this place. But it would be nice, wouldn't it? I mean, they have some kind of a showing of Magga in Georgia for these because it does matter. But then there's this report. This is from Breitbart. David Yng, Hollywood heavyweights including Will Smith, Mandy Moore, George Clooney are pouring cash into Georgia's Senate runoffs. A-list stars, including Clooney, Will Smith, walking Phoenix, Leonardo DiCaprio are pouring cash into the runoff elections in Georgia, hoping to push the Democrat challengers, the pajama boy, John USCIRF and Raphael Warnock, because a genuine wacko across the finish line, thereby flipping the Senate blue.

Clooney has donated 10 grand to the to the George Federal Election Committee, while Smith has given close to four thousand. This is chump change. You people can't be serious. You think? Is it going to matter? They're Hollywood leftists in four grand. Ten grand. That's nothing. That is to these people, this is chump change, maybe the limit, maybe they can't give anymore. But don't tell me that this is a big sacrifice. So Will Smith, four grand.

According to FEC data, the Hill Dotcom first reported the donations, noting it. Clooney, OK, maxed out on his donation back in June. So there is there is a limit. The Hill reported that Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo and Joaquin Phoenix, you combine the IQ of those three, you still don't have a pencil eraser, are backing the Wako Warnock with donations, while Jason Bateman, Mandy Moore, Patricia Arquette and Bradley Whitford have donated to The Pajama Boy USCIRF.

Now, the system in Georgia. Georgia installed, are you ready for this Thirty Thousand Dominion machines, whatever you think of them, thirty thousand of them are in Georgia, they're all across the state. They were installed for the twenty twenty election nine months before the election at a cost of one hundred million dollars in taxpayer money.

With a Republican governor and a secretary of state in the Republican Party, dominion in there for a hundred mill and a lot of pessimism out there from some of you people, deer rush, Trump going to Georgia, mega rallies.

It's all a waste of money. Democrats are going to win these seats. It's over. You may as well face it. It's been over for 10 of the last 30 years. You just haven't had the guts to tell us. Whoa, not true.

I have never thought it's over. And I never would tell you it isn't true. I would never, ever like I'm some guy calling it today, you know, trying to panic cause I'm never going to tell you it's time to panic. Panic doesn't get anything done.

So forget it. I'm never going to tell you when it's time to panic. That was a joke. It was a funny little offline and it work. But I'm never going to tell you it's time to panic. I may come up with some other call to action thing, but not panic. Dear Mr. Limbaugh, the system in Georgia is totally effed up, the GOP isn't doing anything to fix it. There is not one reason for any Trump Republican person to even vote in Georgia.

It will not matter. I'm telling you, folks, I am being inundated.

I'm drowning in pessimism out there.

Georgia has installed thirty thousand Dominion machines all across the state for the twenty twenty election, they did this nine months before the election at a cost of one hundred million dollars in taxpayer money to get it with a Republican governor and secretary of state again. Folks want to remind you there was a blue ribbon committee that was charged with coming up with voter reform, election reform. They came up with virtually everything that went wrong in this election, how to prevent it, make sure it doesn't happen.

It was totally ignored. In fact, it was more like a roadmap.

Of how to steal an election, and maybe that's what its purpose was, maybe that's what the blue ribbon panel really had as its objective.

I don't know, because it's uncanny. Yeah, I just mentioned it 10, 15 minutes. It's uncanny, these suggestions that were made here. Let me for those of you that are just joining us, let me let me run through these again. This was this was in 2005. It was a special blue ribbon panel. Featuring Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker, the third and their staffs that a bunch of people working for them, they were the figureheads, Jimmy Carter and James Baker to third, and they prepared.

A report for the Commission on Federal Election Reform and I got a picture here and Jimmy Carter presenting it to George W. Bush in the White House.

They listen to this. I know, I just know that people tune in frequently, hear all the time I've got to go through this again. They called on states to increase voter ID requirements to be leery of mail in voting. They they they wanted no part of mail in voting. It's a problem. Don't do it. They said they also made the case for halting ballot harvesting. They advocated maintaining voter lists, accurate voter lists to make sure that people were promptly removed.

Now, that shouldn't require a blue ribbon committee to recommend that. But it did they also recommended to allow election observers to monitor ballot counting and to make sure voting machines are working properly. That also shouldn't require a blue ribbon committee. Suggesting the voting machines work properly, but it's uncanny how everything they suggested, in fact, happened the opposite this thing, it was either a gigantic and great warning of what was coming or it served as a roadmap.

But regardless, it was prepared by the deep state and it ended up being run by the deep state.

You probably have heard that Professor Dershowitz is saying that Trump still has several constitutional paths to victory. Professor Dershowitz said he thinks the president has several legal pathways to a 20 20 election victory, Dershowitz said.

There are a few constitutional paths for the president's legal team. But he noted that Trump is going to face legal hurdles in all of them.

He said, for example, in Pennsylvania, they have two very strong legal arguments, one, that the courts changed what the legislature did about counting ballots after the end of Election Day. That's a winning issue in the Supreme Court. I don't necessarily support it, but it's a winning issue in the Supreme Court. Changing what legislatures did about counting ballots, the courts don't have that right, legislatures maintain the sole right to elect or to to to create election law like any other law, the courts cannot do it, but the courts here did it.

Dershowitz is saying that the Supreme Court would would more than likely overturn this. He also said the Trump team has a winning issue in the Supreme Court on equal protection, that some counties allowed flawed ballots to be cured while others didn't cure just another way of being altered, cured, just another way of saying no change made up, created out of whole cloth. It's just it's one of these gigantic it's not gigantic. It's one of these words that makes it sound like we're fixing something.

Yes, we're curing. Oh, yeah. We are fixing a disease ballot. We are curing. No, no, no, no. Curing means they can take a blank piece of paper and turn it into a ballot. Curing means they can take a valid ballot, throw it out if they want to. That's what curing means to Dershowitz says the team has a winning issue on a Supreme Court equal protection, some counties allowed flawed ballots to be cured, i.e. fixed, while others didn't.

Bush versus Gore suggested an equal protection argument can prevail. We got Dershowitz on audio. Let's go to audience number 19, Sunday Morning Futures Maria Bartiromo. She said, Can you tell us if you believe there is a path for victory for President Trump amidst all of these charges in Pennsylvania?

They have two very strong legal arguments. One, that the courts changed what the legislature did about counting ballots after the end of Election Day. They also have a winning issue in the Supreme Court on equal protection that some counties allowed flawed ballots to be cured, while others didn't. They have to show enough contested votes under those two legal theories to change the outcome. The other legal theory they have, which is a potentially strong one, is that the computers, either fraudulently or by glitches, changed hundreds of thousands of votes there.

There are enough votes to make a difference, but I haven't seen the evidence to support that.

So that's what it comes down to. And that's where you go back to the press conference. Rudy and Jenna Ellis and Sydney Powell conducted last week. I got a I got a note from a very learned friend who was so let down by that press conference said, Man Rush.

After that press conference, I was expecting I was expecting the evidence. I was expecting something to blow this thing to smithereens. I mean, you don't go out and do a press conference like that. With all of those promised bombshells and then zip, zero, nada, so I was expecting it to be some kind of computer expert or hacker who was then going to provide evidence and an example of what they were talking about that was blockbuster, but there was nothing.

And he said, my real problem with this is it's making Trump look like he doesn't know what he's doing, it's making Trump look like. He's floundering away out there.

Guy was very upset by this, that that press conference just there was nothing to it when it was over, when it was obviously set up to lay the groundwork for some massive, massive news that was going to shake, rattle and roll the entire election.

But it never came. We'll be right back. Folks, stay with. Jenna Ellis from the Trump legal team just tweeted the following, wow, about a little less than an hour ago, the tweet is 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals grants expedited review for Team Trump's appeal from Pennsylvania. Now, this, I think, is the case that the federal judge, the supposed very conservative Trump appointed federal judge in Pennsylvania, threw out on Saturday. And through out in kind of a mocking making fun of the Trump legal team way.

So maybe they've asked for an appeal to the 3rd Court of Appeals and they've granted an expedited review for the appeal from Pennsylvania. Could be. That's what she's what she's talking about. As I say, we track all this stuff down. As happens in real time. We'll get as much info as we can. In the meantime, I want to get started on the phones. And that's with Peter in Middleburg, Virginia. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.

Good afternoon, Raj. Megadose mega prayers to you, sir. Thank you very much. I appreciate. You bet.

I think some of the negativity that you're hearing is just that people are scared. Trump supporters are scared with this Trump accountability project where they're putting lists of donors, lists of affiliates of of the president, people who work for him. People are scared. And if we lose the Senate, these people are not going to stop. They will change the Constitution. They were going to they are going to try to take all of our guns. And people are very upset and very, very scared.

Me personally. I'm scared for my family and I'm scared more for you. I'm scared for all of us. And that was just my my comment. I'll just take your your your answer off the air, sir. Thank you very much.

All right. I appreciate, Peter. I know. I know a lot of people are scared. People are angry. The caller on Friday was a combination, scared and angry. And there was a similar caller in the third hour who was who was also upset.

I gather that the the anger is like it's always been aimed at elected Republicans who don't seem to be lifting much of a finger to help in this case, Trump or pretty much anything else. And this is not just never Trump has. I mean, this is this is elected. You can you can put on your probably in one hand the Jim Jordans and the Devin Nunes of the world who are actively involved on a on a daily basis about this.

So but I get I get the. The fear side of this, here's Suzanne Appleton, Wisconsin, great to have you.

High, high rise and prayers to you every night. We love here every time we can turn on the radio and hear your voice, it just lifts all of us. Well, I thank you.

I appreciate that. Thank you very much. I really do appreciate that.

Well, I was calling today about my thought about Sydney Pollack. And I really think the Democrats in the media are terrified that what she has is enough to stick. And I really think that that the only the only thing they can do now is to ruin her stellar reputation. And what they're trying to do is call her a conspiracy theorist and they're trying to call her a crackpot and get people to think this that's the only thing they've got. And I think that they want to go to the Trump team.

And I wait a minute, OK, all that may be true, but it's the Trump team that are under the bus here.

But I don't necessarily think they did. I think what they did was smart because all they want to get involved in defending her right now and get distracted from the real thing, which is the front. So by simply separating their two investigations, they don't have to sit and answer questions about her.

And how come you have a crackpot on your team and all of this?

They can keep focused on the fraud and she can keep focused on her voting machine investigation and they can both go at it. And the media is off the back of Trump's team.

I got you. I got you.

You think that they're distancing themselves from Powell so she can continue to do her work without so they can, too, because now the media can't jump all over Trump every time they're on and say, what do you got this crackpot Sydney on your team for? Well, look, not if they get me.

The media can do whatever they want, but if Sydney if Sydney Powell is going to continue her work. Yeah. And if she's going to continue to announce the various stages of accomplishment of her work, the media can always say, wait a minute, Trump, you fired her. Wait a minute. What's she still doing out there working on your behalf in the Trump team's going to say that we're not overreacting to what she's doing. Nothing to do with us.

They have to continue to disavow her, but they can't.

Well, I don't think it's a true disavowal. I think it's just a separation of there are two different functions and there are two different aspects of going, oh, you don't believe that Trump believes Sydney Powell is a kook?

I don't. I think he does know. And I think that know, I just think they they want to keep focused on the fraud. And I think the media is trying to draw them off into a conspiracy theory aspect and and get everybody's attention on that and not on the fraud.

And I interesting theory. It's an interesting theory out there, Suzanne, and I'm glad you made it through. I'm glad you got through here to share that with a number of other people have a variation of that theory.

By the way, I've been cataloguing the emails I've been getting on this, and I could basically put them into two categories. And one category says, look, rushy Zellar Cuke, she's either a nutcase and it's finally being exposed or she's a genius. That that basically is how some people are looking at it. Others in the fatalistic crowd are, look, I knew it was too good to be true. I knew that somebody who claimed to be able to go get what really happened here is nothing more than a local weed.

So there are reactions here that are running the camp. There's massive disappointment, by the way, regardless what really is happening here, there is massive disappointment, but. The one thing about distractions is that you don't want them or if they exist, that you have to find a way to use them to your advantage. And it was it was clear to a lot of people that Sydney Powell had possibly become a distraction. So they wanted to distance themselves from her.

Now, the reasons why or where the theories get get interesting, by the way, before we take a break here at the top of the hour, grab sound bite number twenty four. This is now never mind. I can just tell you this.

Bite me. Joe Biden has named John F. Kerry as the special envoy on climate change. John Kerry going to have to really referee the Democratic Party on issues pertaining to example, a green new deal and the Paris climate accords on this ought to be fun.

We'll be back here in just a minute.

Very quickly to repeat, Jenna Ellis tweeted about an hour ago, Third Circuit Court of Appeals has granted an expedited review for the Team Trump appeal from Pennsylvania. I have to think that's positive. I have to think that there is some good news there. We'll just have to follow it and see let the process play out.

That's all anybody has as requested. Let the legal process play out, let it go, and you are tuned to the fastest three hours in media, this the Rush Limbaugh program. And we are coming to you from the EIB Southern Command, sunny south Florida, heavily fortified and carefully protected, unidentified telephone number eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. The email address and rush at EIB net us. I told the staff that this week I'm going to find out what it's like to be a normal person.

And in order to do that, I have to take Wednesday off like most normal people do. So it's a short, busy broadcast week. We will do our traditional Thanksgiving stories during the busy broadcast tomorrow. We normally do those on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. But we will we'll make room for those during the program tomorrow. A couple of funny audio sound bites here to get started in this hour. Douglas Brinkley, well-known presidential historian. But did you did you did you hear the insult Jenna Ellis had for Frank Luntz?

You know, Jenny Ellis is on the Trump legal team and she's a fighter. A lot of people have mixed emotions about whether she's old enough, experienced enough, whether she's got the mettle to do this. She got her detractors and she has people that love her and think she's doing a great job. Frank Luntz came out and said something about this press conference last Friday and how it was kind of a waste of time. She said, well, Frank Luntz wouldn't know.

He's got a micropenis.

That's exactly right.

I don't know how she knows I think you should probably is assuming probably no, not that, Don. No, no, that's not that. No, no, no, no. Not that the other way.

And at any rate, Douglas Douglas Brinkley is a Frank Luntz kind of guy, he's a pollster. He's a presidential historian at Rice University and he was on CNN Saturday. Has the drive by media continues to discuss what Trump is going to do when he leaves the White House? For example, here's a here's a Politico headline. Trump threatens to wreak havoc on GOP from beyond the White House. His attacks on Republican governors since his loss offer a sample of what's in store for president.

Donald Trump has been three weeks since he lost the election. This is Politico, not me. Hang on.

Since he allegedly lost the election savaging a pair of Republican governors for not backing his claims that he was robbed. Republicans are worried. It's just the start of what's in store from the soon to be former president. And he's going to throw Republicans under the bus. Look, I do not want to be misunderstood here.

I'm not advocating Trump do anything. But I'm going to tell you something. He's not exactly been given the proper amount of support from these Republicans. And I think he's deserve the governors, maybe a little different. But some of the House Republicans and some of the Senate Republicans, all kinds of never trump in both in both houses of Congress, the House and the Senate. And I will never forget the first six months of Trump's first year. Twenty seventeen, where there was no help whatsoever on replacing and reforming Obamacare because they thought the Russian stuff was true and they thought Trump was going to be thrown out of the White House and put in jail.

It was outrageous. And then after six months or so went by, they finally figured out that it was bogus, but they believed it because they believe the drive by media. Trump has not exactly been given support from the Republican Party, they've tried to undermine him, and I don't just mean the never Trump. There's a lot of establishment Republicans that didn't want Trump to succeed at all. This is another reason why people are calling here in tears and in frustration.

We finally got a Republican leader willing to push back, fight back, stand up for America and his own party can't even get behind him in mass. So it's understandable. Anyway, back to Doug Brinkley is on CNN. OK, what's Trump going to do when he leaves the White House?

He's going to create a kind of second shadow government out of Mar a Lago. He practically lives next door to Rush Limbaugh. They'll create a kind of a media empire, a voice out there that simply refuses to accept anything that Joe Biden does and go on the attack.

So Trump and I are going to create some kind of shadow second government who actually did this.

That's right, Barack Obama, we have now learned that Barack Obama ran every operation in the four years of Trump's first term, he ran the Russian hoax. He ran the Russian coup. He ran the impeachment operation. He ran Stormy Daniels. He was behind all of it. Obama and Biden were behind all of it. He created a shadow government, I predicted it. The only thing I was wrong about was I thought he would do it publicly. I thought he'd go on TV and start ripping into Trump every time Trump tried to unravel that Obama policy.

That's where I was dead wrong. He did it silently, quietly, invisibly. But he was doing it for a second kind of shadow government, a great way to describe what Obama was doing. He literally was undermining a duly elected president. He was doing everything he could to overturn the election results in 2016. It was it was near criminal. What was done? You know, I remember all those four years, we're digging deep, we're looking at it, we're the FBI here in Mueller over there, MI5, all these European connections.

We knew that Obama had had a very important White House Oval Office meeting on January 5th, twenty seventeen, where he dispatched Comey and Clapper to go to the Trump Tower, have a meeting with Trump to tell him about the golden shower story in the Steele dossier. But not enough of us put together that Obama was the actual ringleader until later. But he was he was the actual ringleader, he was the guy making sure that Trump was not going to succeed and unraveling the Obama first two terms.

He failed at that, by the way. He failed massively, but that was his objective. Victor Davis Hanson Sunday night on Talk Life, Liberty and Levin. But Mark Levin on the Fox News Channel question from Levin, The Democrat Party seems to stand opposite to so many things that we stand for our principles and traditions. You go one issue after another. How do they get here and where do they want to take us, Mr. Hanson? Think about it.

They have social media, entertainment, Hollywood, professional sports, the media, academia, K through 12, the bureaucracy, the administrative state. And so all we have is talk radio and the people and a few other avenues on the Internet. So it's an asymmetrical challenge.

All we have is talk radio. And why do we still have talk radio? Because talk radio and here is we in talk radio and here to our principles, most of us do think that that's that's nothing new.

It's just a stark reminder of how out of balance things actually are. I have also for later in the program, I have a fascinating piece by David Horowitz. Now, it's nothing new from Horowitz.

It simply it comes up with a new, relevant way of explaining what he believes vis a vis current events and status. And it is really, really well done. It's called Fighting Words as his essay. And that's that's coming up. I also later on in the program.

I have a question that. Everybody that hates Donald Trump needs to ask. And I know they're not going to this is a rhetorical academic exercise. Well, it's not just academic actual substance to it, but I don't expect the people of hate Trump to actually play. But the questions are, do you do you hate? Trump. Or do you hate his antics, do you hate his personality? Do you hate the way he tweets and talks or do you hate the results he gets?

What is it you really hate about Trump? That is the real question. Petty, personal hate driven by fear. And loss of power. Or massive, monumental results. This is the thing about the never Trump that has forever intrigued me. It doesn't puzzle me because I understand it. Here you have these so-called conservatives who have for their careers, at least the last 30 years that I've been aware of them have been attempting to implement conservatism throughout our country, politically, culturally, socially.

They have published magazines. They have well, they haven't. They've asked for money to publish magazines. They actually don't know how to create their own income. That's an amazing thing about their conservatives and have to beg people for money. You have to beg Rupert Murdoch to fund the first magazine and go beg somebody else. Is Bloomberg to fund the next magazine. Then they go begging somebody else to fund the big cruise where they're going to go have all these conservative spokesmen to come out there and tell people what to think and what to do.

Point is, they're out there positioning themselves. As the first line of defense, they're positioning themselves as the reason conservatism has a chance, they position themselves, these never Trumper conservative intellectuals position themselves.

As the reason conservatism has a chance now, they've abandoned conservatism happily the minute Donald Trump's elected president, they're out of their their bye bye. And as Trump implements issue after issue after issue that they supposedly devoted their lives to, they hate Trump. So what is it they hate? They hate his personality, they hate the fact that they think he's low class and low brow, or do they hate the results that he's getting? Because that is the real question.

And I'll tell you why I want to focus on this, so far today we have three vaccines. And numerous therapies approved for a virus that ninety nine percent of the world had no idea about this time last year.

In nine months, the United States of America charged by Operation Warp Speed, that's President Trump's operation to get a vaccine, has saved the world.

Not only with the cures to the virus, but with ventilators, with masks, protections, PPE, all of this sent to every corner of the world because Trump retooled some of our factories to stock the world with life saving tools. What is there to hate about that?

This is the likes of which we have never seen we've not seen this kind of ramping up with this kind of result.

It's overwhelming what the United States of America has pulled off here.

I mean, we revamped in World War Two, but not in nine months. What we are seeing here in the coming to fruition of these vaccines and the retooling, the manufacture ventilators to handle everything the world needs, this is American greatness. This is making America great again on display. This is America. Out of our goodness, out of our innovation. Saving the world yet again, and yet Trump is hated. By people in his own party, what do they hate?

Do they hate these results or do they hate that he tweets? Do they hate his hair? Do they hate the way he speaks? Do they hate the fact that they think he's low class and low brow? What do they hate? What are the contributions so far? On getting rid of this virus from Germany, what are the contributions from France? What are the contributions from Italy? No, no, I'm not trying to be mean to these nations.

I'm just asking you. We have a vaccine candidate from Germany, France, Italy. Do we have the retooling of those economies to manufacture lifesaving ventilators from the outset of the pandemic? What contribution do we have from the Chiron comes? The only contribution from China has been the actual distribution of the virus. That's right, that trichomes made sure the virus was distributed all over the world. That's all they've done except in China. They stopped it. Just outside Wuhan, isn't that amazing how they were able to do that?

The trichomes made sure that their own country wasn't infected, but the rest of the world was point, is it? No one else did what we did and that required a leader, something the world and our country is sorely lacking these days.

You want to talk about foreign policy, Trump has dramatically changed foreign policy in four years, it is nothing like it was when he walked into office in twenty seventeen that little foreign policy of Obama, George W. Bush. It's Daddy. Trump has reset the world stage.

Take a break. We'll be right back. All right, back to the phones we go. This is Dave Kankakee, Illinois. Great to have you, sir. Hello.

Thank you for taking my call. You bet, sir. I believe we're in a revolution.

I think the people of this country are rising up. I think the left wing media and the government are about to find out how big a dog is on the other end of that chain have been talking on. We're not going to accept the voter fraud. And just as we're not going to accept all these draconian government shutdowns, I believe the Trump rallies were just a small taste of what's coming. I also believe that when the people are afraid of the government, it's tyranny.

But when the government fears the people, there's liberty. And I think it's our duty to stand for liberty. I could not agree more.

I'd like to know, however, not disagreeing. You've said whatever we saw the Trump rallies is just the beginning. Isn't the point that Republicans do not stand up. They do not. They do not oppose. They do not tell these people that are trying to impose tyranny and authoritarianism. Honest, I don't tell them to go pound sand. We don't push back. Isn't that the problem?

Oh, absolutely. When I said the left wing media and government, the Republicans fell right into that line.

Yeah, but yeah. But you just said that we're not going to take it anymore and we're going to push back now and that the Trump rallies are. So what evidence of that you have? I mean, I'd love for it to be true.

Well, I mean, the evidence when I said that the Trump rallies were just the beginning of small taste of oh, yeah, look at all the thousands and thousands of people that came out and spent days of their time doing that. It's amazing. And that's just a small taste.

And there was the rally over the weekend, a couple of weekends ago in Washington where. Yeah, well, the signs are there. I have to grant you that the the signs are indeed there.

Dave, thank you very much. I appreciate the the call.

You realize most hosts would have not known how to pronounce where he's from. Kankakee, Illinois. Because I'm from near there. I knew how to pronounce it rolled off of my mouth and tongue like it was an everyday word that I use a lot of hospital.

Can't take, can't kick, but I. Just rolled right off their Kankakee, Illinois. There's a good piece that I just discovered, the Federalist Christopher Bedford is one of the founders, in fact, of the website.

Election fraud problems are a threat to our country, and they're too important to be left to conspiracy theorists. And this is not just a little disguised criticism of Sydney Powell. It's much more than that. It is a it's really a kind of a slap in the face.

OK, look, folks, let's stop having fun with this. I mean, we've got some fraud going on. There are some kooks and some odd things that if we don't fix this, we are we're finished. If we don't get this fraud ironed out, if we don't get this taken out of the system, if we do not expose this for what it really is and how it happened and get rid of it, then we are forever going to be enmeshed in election fraud and therefore, no election going forward is going to be legit.

Too important to be left to conspiracy theorists? I don't think it is, but just with that money, man, oh, man, oh, man.

So I make a little mistake. I said that Chris Bedford, I thought, may have been one of the founders of the Federalist. I have heard from 10 people. He was not. He was not. He was not. He didn't. He didn't find it. He was somewhere else. Why are these people protective of their turf? OK, so he didn't found it. Fine. He writes there, and I'm going to share elements of his piece in due course.

Here's Patty in Palm Coast, Florida, just up the way here, a couple, three hours. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

Hello, Ross. I just want you to know that there are millions of us out here that will never give up. We are for Trump from now to the very end. We are not giving up. We pray for him. We pray for you. We pray for the families of of our president and yours. We will never give up. We are trump millions. We will never give up. I appreciate that. And I know it. Thank you.

But you're more than welcome. I know it. I know nobody is going to give up. I know there are a lot of people that aren't going to give up.

Let's put it that way. Let me let me go back.

I want to finish my thought here on the on the never trump because it really fox this question is I know the answer. I've I've given the answer on this broadcast countless times. They're jealous.

They are just jealous, they are envious, as they can be. Trump has rendered them irrelevant. All of the donations they asked for meant nothing. All the money they were given accomplished nothing, all the magazines they started accomplished nothing, all the think tanks that they impaneled and all the cruises they went on and all the guests they had come speak and all the people they charged the money to go on the cruises meant nothing.

It was a scam, in a way, although the never Trump is were promising they were the ones to get it done. They were the ones that were going to see to it that mainstream conservatism would be implemented into mainstream American politics, that they were the ones to do it.

So they kept asking for money, kept asking for donations, kept starting new publications when their current ones went broke. They started new think tanks, they found new tubs to do their cruises on, but the one thing that never happened, they kept asking you for money and you kept sending them money. But the one thing that never happened was conservative policies did not find their way implemented into America's lifeblood, even during Republican presidential administrations like George W. Bush. Some, but not amazingly much.

And then here comes Donald Trump. We've not an intellectual brain in his cranium, not an intellectual cell in his brain, just a standard issue, real guy. Somebody believes in the decency and the greatness of America and wants to relight it and ignite it and does.

And. All of the issues, many, many of the issues that the Never Trump has had devoted their lives to are now.

Have now been implemented and they hate the guy who did it. They hated him before he succeeded doing it. They hated him before he succeeded in implementing these conservative ideas.

Now, the hate. Largely rooted in jealousy, because he did it, he succeeded, he rendered them in front of the world as irrelevant. They're not needed. They never were Trump did it. These guys devoted. Well, I've been doing this for 30 years and the entire 30 years, the never Trump has been out there is conservative intellectuals pursuing this agenda that never gets implemented. Trump comes in and inside of two years, 90 percent of it's done.

But it's really a fundamental question, and it doesn't stop with just a conservative agenda. Trump has truly and dramatically changed American foreign policy in four years. It is nothing like it was when he walked into the Oval Office in twenty seventeen. The old Republican foreign policy is dead, Trump has reset the world stage, it's folks it's incredible. The Middle East alone, Europe, NATO alone. Let's remember let's look back when Trump came to office, Russia. Was taking Crimea and Ukraine for itself, and we, under the auspices of Barack Obama, were ignoring.

Treaty promises we had made, one of them was big, we had demanded. That Crimea, Ukraine disarm in exchange for us defending them. If they were attacked and here comes Vladimir Putin attacking and we did not defend and they were powerless to defend themselves because they had disarmed on our i.e., Obama's demand.

Obama. And his gaggle of idiots were very willing to let that happen, very willing to let Putin take Crimea and Ukraine. Have you heard since Trump was inaugurated of any aggressive peep from Russia? Have you seen Russia attempted to commandeer or conquer any other country in their sphere? Like they so easily did when Obama was. No, you haven't you haven't seen Vladimir Putin of Russia make move one on any country in their sphere, not since Trump was inaugurated.

Now you hear a lot of laughable lies and made up stories about them, but nothing that has proven true in four years on terrorism. Trump has killed most of these guys. Did you know that just last week the Mossad killed the number two guy in al-Qaida, in Iran, in Iran? Israel has three peace deals. And is recognized by three Arab nations. Did you know that the little secret of trade deals is that Canada is paying for the wall on the southern border through the tariffs they are paying as a result of the US SMK?

Did you know that?

You could say you can say Canada is paying for the wall, you missed that story, you probably did. Caravans have stopped, illegal immigration is down, caravans have stopped this. The main issue in 2016 is a non-issue in twenty twenty. You know, Trump, even during his rallies, he undersold. How he had killed the world's number one terrorist, he would say. Sulong, Sulimani is dead. Sum of money is that it was I guess it was on the prompter, who is Salomone Solomon?

Let me tell you, Sulimani is Qassem Soleimani. Some people pronounce the name Kaseem. It's Qassem Soleimani.

He was the grand poobah of all Iranian terrorism. He was the architect. He was the planner. The state planner. Taking him out was like taking out bin Laden. It was huge to get rid of customs. The Iranians still have not recovered from it. So what is it actually that you hate? Drive bys, Democrats. Never trump, what exactly is it? No other president would have stared down the opposition and appointed three conservative Supreme Court justices, none every other Republican president would have given the Democrats one just to buy piece.

No other president would have or could have done the operation warp speed. Getting a vaccine up in less than a year when fact checkers said it would take a miracle. No other president would have even tried to build the wall, no other president would have looked at the Middle East and thought, I can fix that. No other president would have torn up NAFTA, pushed back against the trichomes, told NATO it was time to put up or shut up.

What is it they actually hate about the. America's real anchorman, Rush Limbaugh, meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day. Here's Kevin Birmingham, Alabama. Glad you waited, sir. You're up next on our big program.

How are you, Rush? It's an honor. Thank you, little. I'm the middle of three generations of listening to my now seventy nine year old father introduced me to you in 1992. I have since introduced you to my now 30 year old son. And we're all big fans.

Well, I appreciate that is fabulous and I cannot thank you enough. That's really appreciated.

So back to the Sydney panel thing. I think they the Trump team had to distance themselves for the simple reason. Over the weekend at Newsmax, she gave an interview to the first state she was going to blow up. Is Georgia, that's her words, and she said something else. I thought they got my attention unless they got their attention. She said something along the lines that Doug Collins actually beat Kelly Leffler. And so if that affects the Georgia Senate race is the top two, you can't be part of that.

I'm not I'm not saying whether it's true or not. I kind of hope she does prove all of that.

But I think the Trump team had to distance themselves in case it cost them the Senate that Doug Collins beat. Kelly Loffler.

Yes, because remember, it's a three person race and nobody got over 50 percent. You alluded to in one of the interviews over the weekend.

Well, you know, they put some they put something else out. They put they they said that the reason that they had to throw her under the bus, throw her overboard, is what she said about the governor there, Brian Kemp. She said that Brian Kemp. Was being blackmailed and bribed by a bunch of communists in Venezuela. Because he bought the Dominion machines and an implement to put them into service in Georgia and that he was he was part of the conspiracy, now that I know Trump has had problems with Kemp off and on, but when you got somebody on your legal team claiming that a Republican governor is in bed with Venezuelan communists going all the way back to Hugo Chavez.

Then you've got somebody that I think the phrase that was used by some is jumped the shark, but you are your your theory could be the operative theory as well. I'm struck by how many people who think that this is a head fake, that Sydney is not really out. That Sydney has been reassigned while making it look like she's been thrown overboard and under the bus, which then frees her to actually move in ways that she wants independently of the campaign and apparently without the imprimatur of the campaign thereby and therefore not implicating the campaign in anything that she does, but that she that her work is is appreciated.

It's you know, it's it's it's. Always fascinated me, the various thought processes that accompany such unexpected, shocking, I mean, this is the last thing anybody expected to happen. But Sydney Powell was actually the brains of that legal team.

And then for this to happen, it just it just doesn't doesn't compute anyway. Kevin, I appreciate the call very much. We got another brief break here at the top of the busy broadcast hour, an obscene profit timeout.

There is much more when we get back. So hang tough.

And I'm man, I really have fast as three hours in media. Here we are already. Two of them are in the can. By the way, the Reverend Al Sharpton is warning that the vaccine might be a racial hoax.

Why do these people continue to be Revoyr?

Al Sharpton should not, you know, these these Democrats that are running around trying to discredit the vaccine, the very people demanding one, very people demanding that something be done. But I mean, it is just unconscionable. And it's not just Sharpton.

It was by incoming Harris the. Doing the same thing. Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh. Great to be with you, my friends. As the EIB Network rolls on in an abbreviated broadcast week, as I attempt to discover what it's like to be a normal human being, you know, I'm going to do that. I'm taking Wednesday off. As most people do see what it's like eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, if you want to be on the program.

Look, I want a lot of stuff here that I need to try to cram into our final busy broadcast hour. Let me start with the piece I highlighted moments ago. This is from Christopher Bedford at the at the Federalist, where I erroneously referred to him as a founder. I must have heard from now 12 people eat it and found it. He just starts to love. He didn't register right or get it right. Whoa, man. These people in their turf.

Holy smokes, I just a little narrower at any rate, his point here in the piece, election fraud and problems are a threat to the country and too important to be left to conspiracy theorists.

On Friday, Trump campaign lawyer Sydney Powell told Glenn Beck that our forces have confiscated a voting company's server in Germany linked. To alleged pro Biden fraud committed by Dominion voting systems, both the military and the voting company in question have denied the claim. On Saturday, Powell said that Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp and his secretary of state are in on the Dominion scam and they ought to be investigated for financial benefit received about that time.

On Sunday, President Trump lawyers Giuliani and Jenna Ellis released an official statement dissociating Powell from the campaign's efforts. This came as news to every single person watching, including those still involved in Trump's re-election campaign. When Frank Luntz, a TV gadfly and Republican pollster, pointed out how difficult it is to accept this late in the game, distancing meaning, what do you mean you throw him overboard? Now, we're not buying this. Jenna Ellis accused Luntz of having a micropenis.

Christopher Bedford says there's a problem here and it's more than the tens of millions of dollars hopefull Americans have poured into a legal fight they think is necessary. The problem is this battle is far too important to be buried by conspiracy theory, accusations from the left in the media, which means it's far too important to be left to conspiracy theorists. Election fraud, not just a real issue, it's a deadly serious one, it is this is folks, this is why from the very beginning we spent a lot of time.

I spent, like, tweeting and and pontificating here that this is about the constitution, the rule of law and the integrity of the American electoral system. It really is about it's not about just trying to secure a legitimate victory for Trump if he had won. It's not just that, because if this actually is fraud, if it is fraud on the massive scale many people believe it is, then it deserves much more than conspiracy theory treatment. It deserves a serious investigation.

Regardless how long it takes. There isn't. A time limit that's too short. You cannot fix this by putting an artificial time limit. You've got two days to fix or two weeks or whatever. This is crucial. This is. Important as anything could be. The Constitution hangs in the balance, the electoral system hangs in the balance, if this fraud that has been widely alleged, if it occurred, it has to be found out, it has to be discovered through the courts.

It has to be discovered with evidence. It has to be persuasive and convincing via evidence. And it needs to happen and it needs to happen outside the purview of the humor of conspiracy theories. It's too important. It's too crucial. And it should not, as I say, have any kind of an artificial time limit on it. Because if this is genuine fraud, real fraud, and it's not addressed and fixed, then. We've got a road map for how every presidential election in the future will be conducted in this same kind of fraud, only the next time it'll be even more perfected.

It will become even more sophisticated and more hidden and more difficult to find until someday somebody really screws up, it'll be our only hope is that somebody really screws up years down the road and makes it so abundantly clear that it's fraud that we can't ignore it.

But we need to find this out now. We need to find it out as soon as possible. It means that there should be no artificial time limits. It means there should be no. Artificial limits of any kind that are designed to prevent the discovery. Of what actually happened. You know, I want these people to succeed with these scandals. I really do. But but, you know, experience guided by intelligence tells me when you when you announce bombshells, you remember Mueller and impeachment.

Remember that bombshell? What happened to it? It fizzled and died. There was nothing to it when you start promising evidence. And it doesn't appear you've got. You've got major, major problems, so while all this is going on, Trump plays it right. He could become another Andrew Jackson. He could use his righteous grievance. To hold the Senate in Georgia. To complete the Magga ization of the Republican Party. It's not over, he's got to complete it, he's got until January 20th to do it.

Lay the groundwork for the house flipping in twenty twenty two back to Republican hands, the off season elections, the first off year elections for the so-called Biden regime. If there's no evidence. In the next two to three days, then they've got to move on and start doing the practical things here of converting what happened in Georgia into electoral success and and victories and keep in mind that we touched on it. Professor Dershowitz says that Trump has three constitutional paths to victory and he has spelled them out.

We did this. I mentioned those in the in the in the first hour, ladies and gentlemen, off the beaten path here for just a second. Have you noted have you recalled have you remembered, Mr. Sterling? You might I've often asked on this program how in the world is it that all of these media outlets that are losing audience and have no audience? How is it that they're still operating? We have the answer. China. Biz Pack review, a story The Wall Street Journal did not respond to a request for comment about its relationship with China Daily, The Los Angeles Times also did not respond to requests for comment.

Beijing controlled news outlet paid U.S. newspapers millions to publish propaganda this year. That's the headline from Bui's Review. On one hand, some of these publications, CNN, but primarily, primarily publications, Web publications, print publications, their loss of audience is staggering. If we had had that kind of loss of audience here at EIB, there's some question as to whether we would still be here, because I'll guarantee you, we wouldn't have taken Chaika money.

The loss of audience of some of these newspapers websites is staggering, and you know that some of them are starting to sell out, starting to merge. They've been sued by any number of people a number of times. They've paid out millions because they're really bad at journalism. Lin Wood has scored gazillions of dollars, The Washington Post, CNN for the Covington kids and others. Well, according to this story, these publications have been kept afloat by communist China.

An English language newspaper controlled by the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda department paid U.S. media companies nearly two million dollars for printing and advertising expenses over the past six months, even amid heightened scrutiny over Beijing's disinformation efforts in the West. And according to this Bismack Review, China Daily paid The Wall Street Journal more than eighty five thousand dollars. The Los Angeles Times more than three hundred forty thousand dollars for advertising campaigns between May and October of twenty twenty. Now, I have to tell you that paying the Wall Street Journal eighty five thousand dollars is not going to mean a thing to keeping them afloat.

So I don't know what that is, but that's eighty five thousand dollars is the definition of chump change.

When you're talking about News Corp, which is Rupert Murdoch, which is family, which owns the Wall Street of eighty five grand, is not that.

Eighty five grand would not constitute keeping The Wall Street Journal afloat.

China Daily paid Foreign Policy magazine one hundred thousand dollars, they pay the UK based Financial Times two hundred and twenty three thousand dollars.

They paid the Canadian paper, Globe and Mail one hundred thirty two thousand dollars is all for advertising campaigns.

They paid several newspaper companies a total of one million one hundred fifty four thousand dollars for printing costs, including one hundred and ten grand. The L.A. Times. Ninety two thousand dollars to the Houston Chronicle. Seventy six grand to the Boston Globe.

Hey, look, every little bit helps, but so advertising campaign could be anything you the Muller report, you know, the Muller report, you know what the extent of Russian meddling was that they spent two hundred grand on Facebook ads after the 2016 election.

Some American newspapers have cut ties with China Daily in response to the criticism of the pay for print arrangement's. The New York Times quietly scrubbed its website of advertorials that it had published as part of a deal that it had with China Daily.

The bottom line of this, folks, the amounts is that the chai comes are helping American journalism. The Chinese are helping defray the costs of American journalism by buying phony advertising campaigns just to infuse cash. The amounts here are not enough to keep any of these operations running, but they are enough to be of assistance. It is no wonder, and it's all propaganda, by the way, that she becomes Pope Francis and we've heard about this, Pope Francis hosts NBA players to talk social justice.

In an unprecedented meeting, a delegation of five NBA players and several officials from the NBA Players Association were at the Vatican today. This morning, there were five or six hours ahead for a private audience with you, Papa Pope Francesco, to discuss their work on social justice issues. An assistant to Pope Francis reached out to the Players Association last week indicating Il Papa wanted to learn more about how players had recently brought attention to pressing social justice issues and economic inequality and what they planned for the future.

The NBA Players Union agreed and quickly scheduled an overnight flight Sunday to make their private meeting with Pupper, which happened at eleven forty five a.m. local time this morning at the Vatican. With training camps set to open on December 1st, players and union officials had to squeeze the trip in now.

Did you know that this weekend in a college football game between Purdue and Minnesota, that instead of the names of the players on the back of the Minnesota uniforms at the end, racism? On every every jersey. On the backs of black football players living their best lives at two top colleges being given free education because. They're athletes. They did not wear their names on the jerseys, they wrote End Racism and Racism. I don't know some I guess some victims of racism, they are.

Free education, free training table. I don't know. But the pope, the pope must not be outdone instead of working on the sins of abortion.

Or the systematic ruin of his own church, il papa has some basketball players to the Vatican to talk about how they kneeled and painted black lives matter on their courts playing courts.

Because, you know, that was so helpful to the cause, so maybe you people want to know how to paint Black Lives Matter on St. Peter's Basilica.

Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh is serving humanity simply by showing up and back to the phones. We go. Where are we going? You got you got it. OK, we're going to go Jim in Galveston, Texas. It's great to have you, Jim. How you doing, sir?

I'm doing fine. It's an honor to talk to you. I feel like I'm talking to a long lost family member. I love you, man, and I'm praying for you. My comment on the whole Sydney panel thing, I don't think she was fired. I think if anything, she was, to use a sports analogy, given her free agency so she could pursue the big picture of this whole Dominion scandal, the fraud that goes with it. She alluded to on a couple of occasions that it wasn't just Democrats who benefited from this corruption.

It was also there were some Republicans. And I think that she's also said that she's had whistleblowers from Dominion. And I think this information could show that there was corruption, that they could probably show documents of transactions, kickbacks or whatever else. And it's going to prove to be embarrassing, I think, for some Republicans. And I think the Trump team, they're focused on getting Trump back in office for a second term, but she's looking big picture.

We've got to get this thing exposed because I don't care, Republicans or Democrats, this has got this. This cannot stand we cannot have our election process so, so corrupted that people will not have trust or faith.

And I know that's exactly right, that that's above everything else. That's precedence. That takes precedence. That must be that's why there can't be any time limit on this.

I mean, not irresponsible time limit. This is too serious. There needs to be serious effort to get the bottom of it. People need to know what happened, if indeed something did.

Well, I'm praying that she will, because this is this is really personal for me. I don't care if it's a Republican, if they've done something that's illegal or if they've been corrupted by this, they should go to jail just just like anybody else. Should I take this personally? This is not Republican or Democrat for me. People fought and died for this precious thing that we have called the ability to vote. And I'll be damned if I let somebody come in there and just take this away.

We're we're we won't go down without a fight. And I think this is what her task is. And I think if you listen to her and if you read between the the the words that this is what's important to her more than anything else. And I think Giuliani and then they have their task, like they say, I consider her a free agent now where she can go and she can attack. But she's a federal prosecutor for 10 years. And I think this is really personal for her, too, if you listen to her and the passion that she has.

And that's pretty much my comment. And I appreciate you letting me make the statement.

You're more than welcome, Jim. I appreciate the purpose of callers. Of course, as I have often noted, is to make me look good. And the way that happens is callers being especially cogent, brilliant and well-spoken, which you are.

No, no, no, no, no. That's the the purpose of a caller is to make the host look good. But that's not my being complimentary. That's not none of it's like you play the hits.

You don't play the stuff that nobody cares to hear. Same thing with callers. Anyway, I have touted a piece, a new essay by David Horowitz, which he's titled Fighting Words. I heard about it. I had encountered it on the Powerline blog. And I want to share some some excerpts from it when we get back from the brink here at the bottom of the hour. It's nothing you haven't heard. It simply is an update using modern, lank current language to describe.

It's right up my alley. It's one of the reasons I like it. What has happened to the Democrat Party and when it happened, such as the 60s, radicals deciding to take over the Democrat Party is when all of this radicalization literally began.

What is this, Biden proposed gun tax? What did I just see Biden's plan to tax gun? K. Biden's plan, the tax cut, shouldn't be surprised about that. OK, David Horowitz and fighting words by now, he begins, if it should be obvious even to conservatives that we are in a war. It is a conflict that began nearly 50 years ago when street revolutionaries of the 60s joined the Democrat Party. Their immediate goal was to help the Communist Party win the war in Vietnam, but they stayed they stayed in the Democrat Party to expand their influence and create the radical force that confronts us today.

The war that today's Democrats are engaged in reflects the values and the methods of those radicals. It's a war against us. It is a war against individual freedom, against America's constitutional order and against the capitalist engine of our prosperity. Democrat radicals, no. What they want and where they are going as a result, they are tactically and organizationally years ahead of patriotic Americans who are only beginning to realize they're in a war that is so true. And do you realize that's the primary problem?

There aren't enough people that realize we're in a war. And guess who's at the top of the list? Establishment elected Republicans who think there's no crisis. It's been the problem for the last 10 years. They do not believe there's a crisis. They do not believe we're in a war. They laugh at us when we point this out. And some average ordinary Americans don't realize we're in a war, they don't want to think we're in a war. The Democrats plan to steal the twenty twenty election was hatched many years ago when Democrats launched their first attacks on voter I.D. and then every effort to secure the integrity of the electoral system.

Those attacks metastasized into an all out assault on Election Day itself, with early and late voting grace periods, a flood of ninety two million mail in ballots, hundreds of thousands of which are delivered in the middle of the night to be counted behind the backs of Republican observers after Election Day had passed. Don't tell me there wasn't any fraud.

Don't tell me there wasn't any tricks played here. The results of these efforts is that Election Day no longer even exists as a DE. When votes are cast and counted. And that right there is another opening for fraud. There used to be Election Day, you would go vote. Then you tune in at five o'clock to seven at the exit polls are lying to you and then you'd watch the count and by midnight you'd know who won. Even in 1960, by midnight, we knew who won, even in twenty sixteen, by 2:00 a.m., we knew who won.

Now they tell us there's no way we're going to know on election night who won or we accept it. We need to get back to Election Day. But Rush but Rush covid-19 don't care. We need to get back to Election Day when votes were cast and counted that. This is a fact that offers generous opportunities for the election saboteurs to do their work. Those saboteurs opportunities were greatly enhanced this year with the installation in battleground states, voting machines specifically designed to calculate how many votes were required to steal an election and then to switch ballots already cast.

And deliver them to the chosen party. Don't tell me there wasn't fraud mail in ballots were indispensable to the realization of this plan. I'm not going to dwell at length on the years it took the Republican Party and American patriots to recognize what the Democrat Party had become or the threat it posed. Suffice it to say that Republicans can still be heard referring to Democrats as liberals when it's obvious even to them that there's nothing liberal about Democrat principles or methods. They are vindictive bigots.

You were actively destroying the First Amendment and our universities on the Internet and in our once but no longer free press. Suffice it to note that while the Democrats accuse Republicans, including the president, of being racists and traitors, the response of Republican leaders is this, oh, Democrats are just playing politics or just playing the race card? They refuse to recognize we're in a war, they refuse to recognize we're in the middle of a crisis. This is not playing people, this is war.

They are trying to kill us politically and we need to respond accordingly to fight fire with fire. Today's Democrat Party is a party of character assassins and racists. Republicans know what they're afraid to say it. That's how a pathological liar and a corrupt political whore like Joe Biden can accuse the choice of. Seventy three million Americans are being a white supremacist. And also murdering two hundred and twenty thousand coronavirus patients, which is what Biden has done. That's why Biden and his gunslinger's can do so with no consequences.

Well, not so much as a wrist slap from moderates, independents who know better the Democrats ability to intimidate well-meaning Americans. Is that great?

Well, is is this to blanket a condemnation? Well, let me ask where then is the Democrat who was outraged by the four year Russia collusion hoax? Where's the Democrat that was outraged by the failed coup and impeachment attempts, all of which accuse the president without a shred of evidence of treason, whereas one Democrat that didn't like it? Where was the Democrat who dissented from the public lynching of an exemplary public servant, Justice Kavanaugh, over an incident that never happened thirty seven years ago at a time when he was a high school kid?

Where's the Democrat condemning that? Where's the Democrat who has condemned the violence, street criminals of Antifa Black Lives Matter, who got away with conducting the most destructive civic insurrection in American history, or Katrice orchestrating mayhem, disrespect for the law that led to the murders of scores of people who happen to have been mainly black.

Where is one Democrat condemning any of this? What follows is a basic vocabulary for understanding the political war that's engulfed us when it's used by enough Americans who love their country, it'll cancel the surreal universe the Democrats lives have imposed on us and the war will be on its way to being won. But until this happens, it won't be. Democrats are not Democrats, they're not Democratic and they're not Democrats. They are totalitarians. They have declared war on the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, the Electoral College, the Senate, the Supreme Court, the election system of the idea of civil order.

They have called for the Republican president of the United States to be platformed and jailed. Their obvious goal is a one party state that criminalizes dissent that is key to understand their obvious goal, one party state that criminalizes dissent to them.

Support for such basic necessities as borders and law enforcement are racist. If you oppose their efforts to legalize infanticide, they will condemn you as enemies of women. And if you make videos of their confessions to selling body parts of murdered infants, they will, like Kamala Harris, throw you in jail.

Progressives are not progressive, they are reactionaries. They're out to abolish liberal value systems and create a status hierarchy where race, gender, sexual orientation define and confine you to an unalterable place in their new social order if you are white or male or heterosexual or religious. And just as was all for.

You are guilty before the fact. I don't know if you heard this sound bite. This is ABC This Week where Chris Christie, I guess, a paid contributor there, and he was on the roundtable on this week with George Stephanopoulos.

And Stephanopoulos said that Governor Christie, is it finally time for this vote hoax, this, this this recount stuff? Is it finally time for this to end?

Yes. And here's the reason why the conflict, the president's legal team has been a national embarrassment. Oh, Cindy Powell accusing Governor Brian Camp of a crime on television, yet being unwilling to go on TV and defend and lay out the evidence that she supposedly has. This is outrageous conduct by any lawyer. They allege fraud outside the courtroom. But when they go inside the courtroom, they don't plead fraud and they don't argue fraud. The evidence has not been presented.

And you must conclude, as Tucker Carlson even concluded the other night, that if you're unwilling to come forward to present the evidence, it must mean the evidence doesn't exist.

That's Governor Christie. Now, I need to share with you that meteorite, which has no love lost for me or this program has already run a story. The headline of which is Rush Limbaugh slams Trump Legal Team. They promised blockbuster stuff and then nothing happens and they get it right in the sense that this was said by me in the context of the Sydney Powles story. And the only point that I made FOX just if you run into this and you think that I'm in the process of doing a Governor Christie on the Trump team, I'm not.

The point that I made was about that press conference specifically. And I shared with you that I had a number of friends who had written me echoing a thought that I had. You're going to promise blockbusters like this. I had one friend tell me he was giddy during that press conference the whole hour when Rudy started and Jenna Ellison then when Sidney when he thought that what was going to follow was evidence some hacker that they had found or somebody they had found that had the evidence of what they were talking about.

He was he said to me that when you when you do a blockbuster press conference like that, when you are telling people that you've got blockbuster fire hose type evidence, I was expecting to hear some and I didn't. And I shared those thoughts with people. And media has typed it up here as though I personally am slamming the Trump legal team, and you might want to interpret it that way, maybe you can, but I really I was watching and expecting something big to come out of it.

But I'm still awaiting that decision. I have not given up that there isn't something is the more you look into what happened, you look at the way Horowitz, as I just shared with you, frames what happened here. There is I mean, you would have to work really hard to believe there wasn't any fraud here, and then when you look at the usual suspects who are doing everything they can to make fun of the notion that there was fraud, trying to downplay it and trying to tell people, you're silly, there couldn't have been four, they couldn't have done it.

That's the wrong attitude to have about this. We need to get to the bottom of what happened. And if it was not fraud, then that's all the better.

But we can't have this much this many allegations in this this much circumstantial evidence of which there is a lot we've got to find out what happened. We cannot conduct elections this way. It's like, folks, we really need to get back to the concept of Election Day where you had absentees and people who showed up to vote on Election Day. Then you tune it night and you watch one. We used to be able to do that easily. We vote, we count, we announce.

Now they tell us, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to know the results on election. Why the hell not? Well, because we're not sure what we're going to need to elect Democrats until well into election. That's what they're telling us. We used to be able to have this concept of Election Day and we better hightail it back to it, but Rush but Rush people are too mobile now and there are too many vagaries and people need the flexibility.

You know, we used to be able to. This is two crucial. The more ways you give people the vote, the more ways you're going to give people to blow it up and cheat on them.

Well, that's it for today, folks. Great Monday. A great way to kick off the busy broadcast week, which is only two days for me this week. We've got the best of shows, guest host and so forth. Coming up, the Ballot Bowl will be here tomorrow and we'll have our usual standard truth of Thanksgiving stories that we normally do the day before Thanksgiving. But we'll do those tomorrow. And whatever else happens between now and then, we'll be removed and ready to go.

Thanks for being with us, folks, as always. See you tomorrow.