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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast. And welcome, everybody. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, young and old alike, to our special Thanksgiving edition of the Rush Limbaugh program right here on the EIB Network. Great to have you here. This is the final live broadcast of the week for me. As I said yesterday, I'm endeavoring to find out what it's like to be a normal guy and in that quest. I have found it necessary to take tomorrow off like most other normal people do, so this is it, eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two if you want to be on the program today.

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The email address, L Rushmore.

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I've got us now for those of you who are new to the program and there are tons of you who are the the folks the the ravings for the we're not supposed to talk about this in much detail, but literally through the roof, such as never been higher.

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And time spent listening, which is a key element of radio ratings, not so much television, but radio time spent listening can affect so much of the time spent. Listening is through the roof as well. People are listening longer and more people are listening than ever before. The point of this is that many people today have never heard what we do on our special Thanksgiving edition of Rush Limbaugh program. And that is the true story of Thanksgiving, which I wrote about in my first million seller.

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Actually, the first book sold two million hard copies, another two million paperback. My first two books sold a grand total of nine million copies, and the second one sold out the two million hardback covers, hardcover copies in eight weeks. So there's a golden opportunity here. And in fact, there is a big spread today at the Federalist on the true story of Thanksgiving. It's spreading. It's not hit. It's taken a while, but it is now spreading.

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And it is crucially important, especially now, for people to understand the real story of Thanksgiving. More than likely, you were taught an incorrect story.

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And if I was it, most people were the version I was taught was closer to the truth.

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But I didn't I didn't get the retail story of Thanksgiving in my formal education. It wasn't until I began to research it for the book. And then we researched it again for the children's book Rush, Revere and the Brave Pilgrims about the arrival here in the new world of the great pilgrims who came and risked everything and actually engaged in the first Thanksgiving. So it's going to be for those of you who have not heard the story, it's going to be eye opening.

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Normally, I wait until the last hour, the program to do this, but I'm not going to wait till the last hour of the program today. I'm going to shake it up and spread it out. We also have George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation. And you know, what's going to stand out to you about that is how often George Washington, the father of our country and the first president and the man whose morality. Ensured that the United States would remain as founded.

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They asked him to be king. He turned it down, served his terms as president, went back to Mount Vernon, but he could have been king if he had chosen and accepted the offer to be king, we wouldn't be the representative republic that we are. But the monarchy. Well, who knows? Who knows what would happen to the United States from seventeen seventy seven seventy eight on had George Washington accepted the offer to be king. But he didn't.

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His morality saw to it that he stayed true and loyal to the Constitution that he helped put together and his first Thanksgiving proclamation.

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You'll be amazed at how often God is cited and reference to the blow you away if you haven't heard it before.

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And we also have a little fun. How many of you believe that we screwed the Indians out of Manhattan? For twenty four bucks, how many of you believe that story, we didn't screw the Indians out of anything, they screwed us and I love telling this story as well. So that's all coming up. And as I say, I'm not going to force you to wait until the third. One of the reasons. But sometimes I don't leave myself enough time in the in the third hour.

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So I'm going to spread this stuff out. And we combine it with a regular performance program here with the stuff happening out there in the news that we comment on as as it happens. So let's get started with with all of that and we'll get the the real story of Thanksgiving, which, again, if you haven't heard it and folks, I'm telling you, I can't.

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Normally, it's at Christmas time that I that I get very sentimental and filled with with thanks, I don't know why, but it's always at the Christmas break that I'm.

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Take some time to thank all of you and to explain how much you've meant to me and my family over the years, but I'm going to do that today. I can't I I'm so I'm so happy and I'm so proud.

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I cannot express the gratitude I have for the the the support that you are showing for the for the program in terms of folks, these ratings are just through the roof for the last month leading up to the election. Now, we're into a new month now and they're showing continued record setting pace after thirty two years. And that's all you and I just I can't thank you enough. I wish I could get into greater detail, but not really permitted the theory.

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You should discuss the ratings than you. You altered them. You you have an impact on what they are and what people admit to listening to. So that's about as far as I can go with it. OK, here's this headline. Oregon Governor, report your neighbors. If they have too many people over for Thanksgiving, this is what the American people apparently voted for. The Democrat governor of Oregon, Kate Brown, declared that people should call the police, do they have police left in Oregon or do they defund them and get rid of Mr.

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Snowden? Are there still police there? Still have a few. Oh, OK. Well, the governor, Kate Brown, declared that people should call the cops on neighbors who have too many people over for Thanksgiving dinner. A week ago, the governor, Kate Brown, threatened citizens of Oregon with fines and 30 days of jail time for having more than six people in a social gathering. Folks, do you see what is happening here? These are Democrat governors.

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These are Democrat mayors, and they're going crazy with power. This governor of Pennsylvania has has put limitations on on buying booze on Wednesday night into Thanksgiving Day.

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It just they're drunk, they're drunk with power, and they're they're salivating over ways to use it even more. And then what they think are more creative ways.

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And now we're advocating that citizens snitch on each other in the state. Governor of Oregon, a week ago, the governor threatened citizens with fines, 30 days of jail time for having more than six people. When she was asked about enforcement, she said, quote, This is no different than what happens if there's a party down the street and it's keeping everybody awake. What the neighbors do, they call the cops because it's too noisy. Is it just like that?

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It's like violations of a noise ordinance. Now, this is a state. Where in certain circumstances, they legally allow you to possess heroin. It is a state where they have regularly allowed riots. And vandalism and law breaking and looting, as long as it's the right people being looted. In Portland. If you want to see your whole family for Thanksgiving, they want your neighbors to call the Gestapo on you. They can toss you in the slammer for your own good, of course, for your own good.

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You don't know how to live your life the proper way. You don't know how to make the proper decisions. You do not know how to keep yourself safe or anybody else safe. And so your neighbors have to report on you. Mad Dog Mattis, secretary of defense, for a time during the Trump administration, wrote an op ed in the deep state official foreign affairs publication called Foreign Affairs. He said he hopes. That Joe Biden will, quote, take America.

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First out of the US National Security Strategy. Which confirms. That Matisse is a globalist first, not an American first. Should have never been defense secretary. These generals can't change that, but it's this kind of thinking that seems to have made a lot of our so-called military leaders turn on Trump.

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I mean, this is absurd. Says he hopes Biden will take America first out of US national security. What in the world? Look at the series of achievements and accomplishments of the Trump administration as a result of America first. That's what these people oppose. They oppose American greatness. They oppose America. First one in the world is wrong with America first. It doesn't mean we sluff everybody else off, it doesn't mean we disrespect anybody else, it means that everybody else benefits from a stronger America.

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The world does not benefit from a weakened America. The world does not benefit from America that gets watered down and diluted and is nothing special. The world doesn't benefit from that. That's what these guys all want. The globalists are demanding globalism. And what has to happen for globalism to succeed? The United States has to be cut down to size. You have to get rid of. Superpower is essentially. Or you have to have more than one so that there is balance, so that there is some way to limit the the bad dangerous tendencies of the United States.

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So this is what this is what the American people voted for, but I don't believe they knew it. That's the problem. I don't know, maybe they did. I know that a certain number of Democrats did. Don't misunderstand. I know the Democrat Party is constituted, has a whole bunch of anti-American types in it, but they're not anywhere near the majority of this country. Twitter is not America. It's not even close. Facebook is not America. It's not even close.

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Zuckerberg and his gang had to work really hard to do what they did to maneuver this election into Biden's camp.

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But. This idea that Biden take America first out of national security, it's one thing to take America first out of economic matters, it's another thing to take America first out of national. How in the hell can you oppose America first in terms of national security? What's the point of the United States government?

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Former Defense Secretary James Mad Dog Mattis said in an op ed on Monday, that would be yesterday for those of you in Rio, Linda, that he hopes Biden will take America first out of the national security jury for his incoming regime. Mattis wrote the op ed titled Defense in Depth for Foreign Affairs magazine, or three other authors on the piece says In January, when President Biden and his national security team begin to re-evaluate U.S. foreign policy, we hope they will quickly revise the national security strategy to eliminate America first from its contents, restoring in its place the commitment to cooperative security that has served the United States so well for decades.

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Be? S cooperative security made us put ourselves second and third and fourth and fifth. By design, that is exactly what happened during the Obama administration, that was its purpose. And these people loved it for whatever sick reason, these people love the devaluation of the United States of America, they love the devaluation of the United States is a superpower as an economic power, as a military power. And for what?

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Guilt, why does the United States need to be punished? Why does the United States need I mean, in our natural existence, because of capitalism and freedom and liberty and our Constitution, we are the strongest, the greatest, the most powerful militarily and economically nation ever to exist. Why in the world is that bad? Why in the world would you purposely want to evolve strategies? Policies? That would punish. The United States, for its great what in the world do you hope to accomplish?

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Well, the answer to that is globalism and globalism ultimately means a world without borders, for one thing, and it means a world without nation states. Do not doubt me on this. These people believe that nation states represent. A huge problem. To the concept of global governance, I have to take a brief time out here because of the constraints of the programming format, but we'll be back right after this. Don't go anywhere.

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Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Studies of everything that matters. Janet Ellis on the Trump legal team tweeted just moments ago, a half hour ago, she said, All this media chatter of Joe Biden picking his cabinet is like fantasy football. It's meaningless in the real game.

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She is insistent that their legal case is going to prove out.

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And that's what this tweet indicates. The president tweeted also the day. Seventy nine percent of Trump voters believe election was stolen. They are 100 percent correct. But we are fighting hard. Our big lawsuit, which spells out in great detail all of the ballot fraud and more, will soon be filed. Rigged election. That's President Trump's tweet today. Let's grab audio, something number six, Rudy Giuliani, he was on Lou Dobbs Tonight last night on Fox Business Channel question what's the reason for the split between Sydney Powell and Giuliani and the rest of you guys?

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Because we're pursuing two different theories. Our theory of the case to get to the Supreme Court is basically misconduct of the election by state officials in at least five or six different states. They had these mail ballots, which I think was always part of the plan. They always treated somewhat with absentee ballots. But for example, they only had four to fifty thousand absentee ballots four years ago in Pennsylvania. This time they had two point six million. That's like letting a couple of thieves free all night.

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And Tiphanie and we have evidence the evidence has been presented and the media lies that we have no evidence. They're just too lazy to read our one hundred affidavits. And he says there is still time.

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Lou Dobbs said, here we are, three weeks from the election. How much flexibility do you have? How urgent are those deadlines that are approaching?

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There isn't a lot of time, but there's time. And the fact is that the facts are there. We just need to get them before a trier of fact or before a court. That'll be fair. And we'll listen to the court in Pennsylvania, cut it off without listening to a single fact. And I don't know how the judge could have concluded that the facts aren't substantial when they haven't even been presented yet. Unfortunately, we haven't yet gotten a fair decision.

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We will we've got to be a little patient, one fair decision, one good hearing, and this will turn all around.

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So as you hear, they're insistent. They have a case. The case is waiting to be made. They just need a fair judge, a fair hearing. And once the evidence is heard, after it has been fairly presented, then, you know, all hell is going to break loose.

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Nearly two thirds of Trump voters refused to accept the result. Seventy nine percent do believe the election was stolen. If that's the case, then then Biden does not have any kind of a mandate and.

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And all hang tough. We'll be right back. Hi, welcome back. So great to be with all of you each and every day. Such an opportunity, such a privilege that I have had my entire life to be able to do what I always wanted to do, do what I was born to do and to do it well and to succeed at it.

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No greater blessing could be bestowed. And you all are instrumental, fundamental, crucial in making all of this happen for me. And I will never be able to pay you back for it.

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I don't care what I do. I will never be able to thank you sufficiently for everything that you've meant. Let me be thirty two years here and there. Some people have been listening the entire time. Thirty two years. It's over, it's over a generation. And there are some lifers here. It's just, it's just phenomenal. I want to go back to this, this poll that the president cited in his tweet today. Seventy nine percent of Trump voters believe the election was stolen.

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Trump says they are one hundred percent correct. He says we're fighting hard. So if you listen to the president, he listed the Giuliani, you listen to Jenna Ellis, there's there they're still proceeding on the basis that the election was stolen and fraudulent and they're trying to overturn it. And it's obvious now that they're route to do this is a Supreme Court. That's what they're doing. That's how they're trying to do this. They're find trying to find a direct way to the Supreme Court.

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And one of the ways of doing that is having all these these requests for hearings denied, which then opens up the avenue for appeal. The ultimate appeal is to the Supreme Court.

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It's clear that's the strategy, that they're trying to main line and speed it up because they think, well, they want to fast track that because the Supreme Courts, where the ultimate decision is going to be made anyway. So let's just go there. And that is apparently the theory or the strategic read that is being employed here. But I want to share with you some highlights from this poll. This poll is conducted by Politico. It's the twenty 20 voter priority survey.

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And the results showed that a bunch of Trump voters believe the election results are not valid and that illegal voting and fraud took place during the election.

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I think there's no question about this. This is what's so damn frustrating. There isn't any question about it. Go back to this Rudy sound bite. Four hundred and fifty thousand absentee ballots in Pennsylvania four years ago, two point six million absentee ballots in this election and I don't think that covers mail in ballots. It may I'm not exactly sure. But it's like I said yesterday, folks, if we're going to salvage the integrity of our electoral system, we've got to do some drastic things.

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We have got to go back to the concept of there is an election day. We vote on Election Day, plus they have absentees. We've always had absentees. There's nothing abnormal about absentees. You have to show an I.D. to get an absentee ballot. You don't for a mail in ballot. We need to scrub this mail and stuff and we need to scrub the early voting and all this other stuff. And we need to have an election day where people go vote and they watch television that night and we find out who won.

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We've done this for decades in this country. The idea now that we can't find out who won on Election Day, on election night to frankly, absurd. It's an excuse and it is a recipe for fraud, and I knew that it was going to happen when I kept hearing the Democrats say there's no way we're going to know who won on election night. By golly, we didn't, did we?

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Not officially. Why? Why did it take so long to count? Why they stopped counting the votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, because we know why. They stopped counting the votes in twenty sixteen as well, about midnight, there was an hour and a half that went by where they were panic on the Hillary side, trying to find votes. They couldn't find them. Trump was declared the winner because they had not greased the cheating skids in twenty sixteen.

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They thought they were going to win in a landslide.

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They were caught totally unprepared. That wasn't going to happen to him this time. They were totally prepared this time. But the idea that this country cannot have an election and count the votes and announce the winner on the same day is frankly absurd. And these people telling us, remember what they said Democrats were telling other Democrats, don't panic on election night. It may look like Trump has won in a landslide, but don't panic because we'll not have counted the mail in ballots yet.

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We won't count the mail in ballots until maybe six days later.

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Really? Why?

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So all of this. It's not so much about doing what they're doing to get Trump the White House or keep him there, although that would be great. But but the purpose is the electoral integrity of elections in this country. We have to maintain this. If we don't if this standard. Is allowed to go unchallenged and there is an election down the road that anybody is going to trust and they may be justified in not trusting it. Here's some of the polling data here.

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Nearly two thirds of Trump voters do not accept the result. This level of distrust is unprecedented. Joe Biden's been declared winner. Do you accept the result? Ninety seven percent of Biden voters accept 38 percent of Trump voters do. Eighty three percent of Trump voters believe the media is the enemy of the people. Eighty one percent of Republican voters have less respect for Democrats than they did four years ago. The survey was 1500 voters online November 10 through November 19.

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Let's get started on the phones. We have Logan, 16 years old. He is in Florida visiting from California. And it's great to have you, Logan. You're up first today. Welcome to the program.

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Hi. Thank you for having me.

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Well, you bet. It's great to have you here. My grandma and I was called so many times and we're here in Florida. I'm here with her. And she's the one who who turned me on to your show. We used to watch our we used to listen to it and in her big red truck driving around in California. And we're just so excited that we get to talk to you, too.

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Well, I'm glad you made it through. Your grandmother drives a big red truck. Yes, she does. It's cool. Very, very cool. Well, I'm glad. I'm glad. What are you wear in California? Do you live?

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I live in I live in Bakersfield, California. Bakersfield. I've been there. Bakersfield. Business confidence got kicked out of it one year. Have you? I did. That gave me the hook. Have you are you like Florida?

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Oh yeah. I love Florida. It's beautiful here. Yes. I'm thinking of moving here. Logan, maybe. Yeah. Yeah.

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Well, we'd love to have you. We love to have you. Thank you very much for for calling. I appreciate. It's great to have you with us on this one.

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Thank you. Thank you for just being you and inspiring. Well, that that's I appreciate that very, very much.

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That's very, very nice of you to say.

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Yes. I love standing up for people.

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I love standing up for people who can't stand up for themselves or who don't have a voice.

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I'm not talking about cowards, people that just can't go beyond their little limited group.

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I love standing up for people I love.

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I love letting people know that they're not alone in things.

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So I appreciate that very much. Here's Debbie Waukesha, Wisconsin, your next. Great to have you high.

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Thank you, Russ. And God bless you. God bless you. Great to have you here.

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Thank you so much. I know you've moved on from this subject, but I just wanted to make a quick comment on just a minute way that we never move on from anything.

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If you want to talk about Mad Dog Mad, I've not moved on from it. I just set the table.

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If you got a comment on Mad Dog Mattis, by all means, when the dog ate, my thought is that, you know, people like Mattis, they don't realize that believing in American exceptionalism, putting America first have put us right where we are now on the cusp of distributing vaccines for covid.

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That's not how they look at the world. You're absolutely right. That's not how they look at the world.

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I know, but it's a shame.

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But it's more than a shame. It's a it's a clear and present danger, if you ask me. I mean, people like Maddis believe in cronyism. Cronyism is the way of the world. Cronyism is how you advance. Cronyism is how you paid your income, how you have it. Income, cronyism is how you have membership and what we call the deep state, the establishment or what have you. And the whole concept of American exceptionalism to them is that that is for hayseed hicks.

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That's that's so old fashioned is a global world out there now that's interconnected and interdependent. And the idea that the United States is some stand alone place is simply absurd how they look at it.

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And it's the same. It is. I mean, we are a nation blessed by God. It's beautiful.

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And we really have so much to it not.

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We really are a nation blessed by God. I firmly believe that.

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I believe that after having studied the elements of American history, the true story of the first Thanksgiving, so many absolutely unique, wonderful things had to happen. There's a book Catherine Drinker stole, can't forget the name of the woman that wrote it that's close, called Miracle in Philadelphia. It's about the.

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Writing of a constitution, how it came together, it is a miracle it's no other time in human history has anything like the United States ever been attempted. The United States Constitution never been attempted anywhere but here. And it works and it worked and it continues to work despite efforts to undermine it that are coming from from within.

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And Thanksgiving is, you know, what Thanksgiving is. I wonder how many people really know what the official holiday of Thanksgiving signifies. It has nothing to do with the Indians and eating and thanking them for saving us at Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims.

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Well, it does, but that's not the reason for George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation. The creation of the actual Thanksgiving holiday. I'm George Washington. Was largely about thanking God for the newly ratified constitution, everybody who participated in the constitutional convention realized how unique it was, how special it was, how privileged they were to be. Part of it lives, fortunes, sacred honor.

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People lost everything to create this nation.

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Fifty six signers of the Declaration of Independence, many of them lost everything, including sons who were taken prisoner and tortured. Catherine Drinker, Bohane Miracle in Philadelphia. Their sons were taken prisoner and tortured and they were told their sons would be released if they would renounce the Declaration of Independence.

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They didn't renounce.

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Anyway, I got to take a brief time out. Time is rolling. I decided here that the top of the next hour we'll get started on the real story of Thanksgiving in the United States.

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Back after this.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average has hit thirty thousand first time ever as predicted by Trump before the coronavirus. He predicted we would hit thirty thousand in the recovery from the virus. Now, the drive bys are saying that we've hit thirty thousand because the markets are so excited that we're going to transition to plug's.

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I don't quite think that's it. The president came out, spoke to reporters about the stock market just mere moments ago.

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I'm very thrilled with what's happened on the vaccine front. That's been absolutely incredible. Nothing like that has ever happened medically. And I think people are acknowledging that and it's having a big effect. But as the stock market just broken, thirty thousand never been broken. That number, that's a secret number. Thirty thousand. Nobody thought they'd ever see it. That's the ninth time since the beginning of twenty twenty. And it's the fortieth time that we've broken records during the Trump administration.

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And I just want to congratulate all the people within the administration that worked so hard. And most importantly, I want to congratulate the people of our country because there are no people like you. Thank you very much.

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President Trump acknowledging the Dow Jones Industrial Average, surpassing the magical thirty thousand mark never been done before and claiming that it is related to the vaccine.

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No question that that would be a factor. Here is Jim in Belmar, New Jersey, as we stick with the phones. Great to have you, Jim. Hello.

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Hey, Russ. Hey.

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What's going on in front of the Supreme Court is more it's bigger than just who's going to be president if they rule against Trump. They're basically allowing fraud in the election. And basically, what are we going?

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Well, now, wait a minute. Wait, they got to prove it. Now, what you say is true, if they if they rule against Trump, they're basically allowing fraud, that it's up to the Trump legal team to prove that fraud. They've got to show it.

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Well, if Trump brought that message to the people and presented his case to us, to Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, saw it and said, hey, there's not a fraud there, but I would like to decide for myself. I've known a lot of lawyers and our opinions didn't exactly match and a lot of things. Whose opinions don't match a lot of things, you and other lawyers in the law, the lawyer, tell me how the law really works, even though I read it, it's completely different than what he's telling me, how it works and what real quick, I just if if we do not win this and elections, you know, if I have a hard time trusting elections going forward, I want to know your opinion of what recourse we have going forward.

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Well, I have been on this message, our case for the well since the election was was over and this effort to uncover the fraud, what I've said must be a thousand times we have to get to the bottom of this to protect the integrity of future American elections. That's what this is about. It's not, first and foremost, making sure that Donald Trump is kept in the White House. That would be great. Don't misunderstand. The point here, though, is the Constitution and the integrity of the American electoral system.

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If it is not upheld, if it is not maintained, then no election going forward is going to be trusted. And if that's the case, then we don't have an electoral system, pure and simple. It's crucial that this get decided. It's crucial that this be adjudicated in the right way.

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No question about it. The. Then my primary points of all this began, you probably have noticed that the Democrats, the American, the left are trying to talk everybody out of Thanksgiving. Don't go don't go to your family's house. Your grandmother's house. Don't don't have people over.

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Do you know why? Well, if you don't know why, stay tuned.

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The real story of Thanksgiving is next on the Rush Limbaugh program.

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And right back, here we are. Greetings. Great to have you with us. It's Rush Limbaugh. This the official Thanksgiving edition of the Rush Limbaugh program. This program would normally occur on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving. But I'm taking tomorrow off to try to get an extended period of rest. And because Treatment Week is next week, folks. I'll be here on Monday of next week. And then it's then it's back to infusion day next a week from today.

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So I've got to get some some downtime in. And that's why I'm taking tomorrow off telephone number if you want to be on the program. Eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. And the e-mail address is Rush Ball at EIB. Net dot us. So my. Second book, see, I told you so. First book is The Way Things Ought To Be. Second book, see, I told you so, Chapter six dead white guys or what?

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The history books never told you the true story of Thanksgiving? Not normally. What I do is simply read from my first book. But there has now been another book added the Rush River series. And the first Rush Revere book is Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.

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These are children's books that were written to help young people get the true stories of America's founding because so little of it is actually correctly taught. And in the children's book version, Rush, Revere and the Brave Pilgrims went into a little bit more detail about the Indians, the Native Americans who helped the arriving pilgrims and what that story actually is and how the the true story of Thanksgiving has been obscured by what is taught. What I was taught. You were probably taught.

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Here's the version you were probably taught. The pilgrims arrived here after an arduous trip across the Atlantic Ocean, didn't know where they were, had no idea what to do. They had nothing. The Indians took pity on them. The Indians saw them in the Indian save them. The Indians taught them how to do things they didn't know how to do, like grow food, catch beavers, stuff like that. The Indians save them. And the pilgrims thanked them by growing a whole bunch of food and having this big feast.

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And so the story of Thanksgiving that's taught is basically how without the Native Americans, there wouldn't be a country because the pilgrims would have died. At least the pilgrims are nice enough to pay the Indians back with a big Thanksgiving dinner. That's not at all what happened. It's not even close to what happened, which is why I decided to write about it now in the Revere book.

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The children's book, as I say, went into greater detail about some of the Native Americans who provided assistance to the arriving pilgrims particularly. A young native by the name of Squanto, I'm doing show prep today and I come across a story in The Federalist and I quote from this website all the time. And I'm reading this story here. And my folks. It is. It is.

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Wow. I don't know. It's right out of Russia of your book and it's right out of my. See, I told you so book. A whole lot of discussion here of Squanto, who he was, what he did, how he helped the details. The point is, the true story of Thanksgiving is spreading, and I couldn't be happier about that. Bottom line, it is spreading. And the real I'm just going to cut to the chase here.

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Before getting into reading the text, The Real Story of Thanksgiving. Going back to the very first early days of the pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock, is that socialism failed. This is crucially important today because we have just elected. A Democrat party that is going to implement socialism if they win these two seats in Georgia and they're going to try regardless, but if they win those two seats in Georgia, you can say goodbye to the United States as you know it.

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It will become a socialist state. It will begin the process of what we're way down the road towards that anyway.

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So it is crucially important here for people to understand this, it's not antiquated, it's not it's not a cliche. It's not it's not something that you can make fun of people about. You know, it used to be when I was first started the show in the late 80s, early 90s, if you if you dared to refer to the Soviet Union as communist people made fun of you. Oh, come on, Rush. You see a communist behind every rock.

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And they tried to ridicule you out of identifying communists and communism. Castro trichomes. I never buckled, but a lot of people did. And they're doing it. Now, if you say the United States, the Democrat Party is on the pathway to socialism, they make fun of you. They mock carbon. You don't believe that. You can't believe that's just silly. And they try to mock you and make fun of you to silence you. But but, folks, it's real.

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Now, the story of the pilgrims begins in the early part of the 17th century, the Church of England under King James, the first was persecuting anyone and everybody who did not recognize the church's absolute civil and spiritual authority, actually, the St..

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Now, those who challenged the ecclesiastical authority and those who believe strongly in freedom of worship were hunted down in England.

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In the sixteen hundreds, they were hunted down, they were imprisoned, sometimes executed for what they believed. So a group of separatists, people that didn't want any part of this, fled first to Holland. They liked wooden shoes and cheese, they established a community, they were there for 11 years after 11 years, about 40 of these separatists who liked wooden shoes and cheese agreed to make a perilous journey to the new world. They had heard about it.

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Some new, exciting place hadn't been developed, they knew that they were going to face hardship, hardship like you and I don't know and I'm not preaching to you, I'm just told we don't know the hardship these people endured. We can't we are way too advanced now. People who lived in the sixteen hundreds would not believe life today try to explain flight jet travel. They wouldn't understand it. They knew they were facing hardship, but. Paramount importance to them was living freely and worshipping God according to the dictates of their own consciences, their own beliefs.

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That's what they were denied the freedom to do in England. So August 1st, 16, 20, the Mayflower set sail.

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There were a total of 102 passengers, including 40 of the separatists, the pilgrims that were just 40 of them. They were led by a man named William Bradford. Remember his name? On the journey across the Atlantic, you talk about something, it had to be frightening and scary. The Mayflower was not much bigger than a 50 foot boat. One hundred and two people on it. On the journey, William Bradford set up an agreement, the contract, if you will, that established just and equal laws for all members, all 40 members of this Pilgrim community didn't matter what their religious beliefs were.

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These were the laws they were all agreeing to live by.

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Now, where did these laws, these ideas come from? We're talking to the Mayflower Compact, is what Bradford wrote. The Mayflower Compact derived from the Bible, the pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the Bible, Old and New Testaments. They were a devoutly religious people. No matter what else is said about them, and even that is denied, they were devoutly religious. They looked to the ancient Israelites for much of their example, and because of the biblical precedent set forth in scripture, they never doubted because of their faith in God that their experiment would work.

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They never doubted they would get to the new world. They never doubted that once they got there, they would thrive. The journey was long, it was arduous, it was dangerous. And when they finally landed, when the pilgrims finally landed in New England in November, according to William Bradford's detailed journal, they found a cold, barren, desolate wilderness.

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Imagine. New England, as it exists today, as nothing but rocks. Forest undeveloped nature in November and getting colder. There were no friends. There was no shelter of any kind other than what, you know, hiding under a tree, there was nothing, folks.

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It was desolate. There were no hotels, there were no inns ever, no places to clean up. There were no houses. I mean, this was real hardship. The sacrifice that they had made for the freedom to worship. Was just beginning during that first winter, remember, they arrive in November during that first winter. Half of them, including William Bradford's own wife, died of starvation, of sickness. Exposure to the elements. Now we're getting close to what you were taught in school when spring finally came.

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And by the way, writing that doesn't do it. Justice Spring didn't just finally came. It was a survival. It was an act of survival that you and I cannot possibly relate to or understand American special forces can military people who have been trained can understand what the pilgrims with you. And I can't. We've never done anything like that. First winter. In the new world. They survived it, spring finally came, they did meet the Indians, the Native Americans who were there, who did help them in planting corn.

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And fishing for cod, they showed them where the beavers were. So the beavers could be skinned for coats, other things you animal rights people are not going to like some of this story. But it happened. But even at this, even even with this degree of assistance from the Indians and Native Americans, there wasn't any prosperity yet. They had the Mayflower Compact, they had these laws they were living by, but there was no prosperity and I wonder why now this is important to understand here, folks, because this is where modern American history lessons and with the Indians teaching the pilgrims how to eat, how to fish, how to skin beavers and all that, that's where it ends.

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And that's the feel good story. But that doesn't even get close. To the true story. You know, Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives. It wasn't that that happened, but. Thanksgiving was a devout expression of gratitude. The pilgrims to God for their survival. And everything that was a part of it now here is the part that has been admitted, the original contract the Pilgrims entered into.

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In Holland, they had sponsors, they didn't have the money to do this trip on their own, they had sponsors, there were merchant sponsors in London and in Holland and these.

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Merchant sponsors demanded that everything. That the pilgrims produced in the new world would go into a common store, a single bank, if you will. And that each member of the Pilgrim community was entitled to one shares everybody had an equal share of whatever was in that bank. All of the land they cleared, all of the houses they built belonged to that bank, to the community as well. And they were going to distribute it equally because they were going to be fair.

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So all of the land that they cleared and all the houses they built belonged to everybody, belong to the community, belong to the bank, belong to the common store, nobody owned anything.

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They just had an equal share in it. It was a commune. The pilgrims established a commune, essentially a forerunner of the communes we saw in the 60s and 70s out in California.

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They even had their own organic vegetables, by the way. Yep. The pilgrims forerunners in organic vegetables, of course. What else?

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Could there be no such thing as processed anything back then that William Bradford, who had become the governor of the economy because he was the leader, recognized that this wasn't going to work.

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This was costly and destructive. And it wasn't it just wasn't working. It was collectivism. It was socialism. It wasn't working. At first, winter had taken a lot of lives, the manpower was greatly reduced.

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So William Bradford decided to take bold action, which I will describe when we get back.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know Biden's announcing his cabinet. We'll get to this. He's announcing a bunch of people that are going to renounce the whole America first thing.

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But what we're doing here is a little bit more important, Biden's cabinet announcement here. So I want to get back to where we left off. William Bradford, the governor of the. Pilgrim community saw that none of this was working, the Mayflower Compact was not working, giving everybody a single share of stock in the common story in the common bank was not working.

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Collectivism, it was it was as costly and destructive to the pilgrims as it is and has been to anybody who has ever tried it, so Bradford decided to scrub it. He just threw it out. And took bold action, he assigned a plot of land to each family.

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Every family was given a plot of land, they can work it, manage it however they wanted to, if they just wanted to sit on it, get fat, dumb, happy and lazy, they could if they wanted to develop it, if they wanted to grow corn, whatever on it, they could if they wanted to build on it, they can do that. If they wanted to turn it into a quazi business, they could do whatever they wanted to do with it.

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He turned loose the power of the capitalist marketplace. Long before Karl Marx was even born, long before Karl Marx was a sperm cell, in his father's dreams, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And they found that it didn't work. It wasn't called that then, but that's exactly what it was. Everybody was given an equal share. You know what happened? Nobody did anything. There was no there was no incentive, nothing worked.

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Nothing happened. What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anybody else did on less.

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They could utilize the power of personal motivation, but while most of the rest of the world's been experimenting with socialism for over 100 years longer now trying to refine it, perfected, reinvented the pilgrims. Decided early on to scrap it permanently, what Bradford wrote. About this experiment should be in every school child history lesson, if it were, we might prevent so much suffering, we might have prevented this election if the true story of Thanksgiving had been taught for years and years and years.

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And I'll tell you what Bradford wrote and how they fixed it when we get back after this obscene profit time out here at the bottom of the hour.

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Hi, welcome back. It's the true story of Thanksgiving, a Thanksgiving tradition for over 30 years here on the EIB Network. So William Bradford, after putting everybody in a common story, the Mayflower Compact, they wanted to be fair. They wanted everybody to have one common share of stock and everything that happened that the pilgrims produced and it bombed, it didn't work. There was no prosperity. There was no creativity because there was no incentive. Here's what Bradford wrote about the failure.

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For this community, so far as it was, was found to breed much confusion and discontent, they were not happy.

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In other words. This community was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. Other words, nobody worked the way they set it up, killed and discouraged work.

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There was no need for young men that were most able and fit for labor in service, sat around and did nothing, should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children not being paid for it. Why do that?

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So they didn't. It was thought to be injustice. Why should you work for other people?

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When you can't work for yourself, what's the point? You hear what he was saying here, folks, the pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without some incentive. So what did they try? What did Bradford's Pilgrim community try next?

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They unharnessed the power of free enterprise. They invoked capitalism, the principle of private property all the way back in the 16, 14, hundreds, 16. I mean, it was incredible.

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Every family was inside its own plot of land and they could do with it whatever they wanted to do. Bradford wrote this had very good success for it, made all hands industrious. So as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been. So when Prophet was introduced, when the opportunity to prosper was introduced, it went gangbusters. That, my friends, is the essence of the true story of Thanksgiving, this is where it gets really good if you're laboring under the misconception that I was and I was taught in school, they set up trading posts and exchange goods with the Indians after they had enjoyed this prosperity.

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It was not the Indians that brought them prosperity. And it's not said to insult anybody. The Indians assisted them on their arrival, undeniably. But what led to prosperity? Four of these original settlers was a discovery that the common store failed socialism didn't work when they introduced what turns out to be capitalism, they didn't have the name for it. But when they turned loose, individual incentive, keep what you produce, sell what you don't need. They went crazy.

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This is not something they were taught by anybody but self experience. It was not the Indians. None of this is said to put anybody down. Don't misunderstand.

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Again, these did a lot of things that helped them, which I'll get to in just a second, but it was their own industriousness. They set up trading post, they exchange goods with the Indians, they sold stuff to them, and those profits allowed them to pay off the debts of their sponsors in London and in Holland.

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And you know what? The success of that colony after they had abandoned socialism and tried what was essentially capitalism, the word spread throughout the old world of this massive amount of prosperity that was there for the taking in the new world. And guess what happened? The new world was flooded with new arrivals. The success and the prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the Great Puritan Migration. And all it took. Was prosperity and the word spreading across the Atlantic Ocean of how there there was prosperity and that was there for the taking, all you had to do was get there and give it a shot.

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The lesson is the true story of Thanksgiving is. That William Bradford and his Pilgrim community were thanking God for the blessings on their community after the first miserable winter of a documented failure brought on by their attempt at fairness and equality, which was socialism, it didn't work. Only when they abandoned it. Did it work and I need to say again, because I don't I don't want people to be misunderstood and get noses out of joint, the Native Americans, the indigenous peoples, the Indians, whatever you want to call them.

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They were of considerable assistance and they were friendly when the pilgrims arrived. But they had little, if anything, to do with the prosperity. That occurred because that was the result of Bradford and the Pilgrim leadership deciding to change their structure. According to the Mayflower Compact, now Indians assistant Nacha can't deny it, I mean, he taught them how to fish in this kind of thing that they didn't know how to do and that led them to be productive.

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Undeniably so. But it was. The Pilgrim community itself, which experienced this massive prosperity, the word of which spread all the way back to the old world, Europe across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Now, I mentioned earlier that the Federalist has a story on all this. And in it, they describe much of what we did in the second book that dealt with this, the children's book Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims, and that book goes into great detail about how the Indians didn't provide assistance and what kind of assistance it was, how valuable it was and how crucial. It was and in Russia, revering the brave pilgrims, we focus on a Native American by the name of Squanto.

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Now, as I told you during that first winter, 16, 20, only forty four of the original 102 pilgrims survived. They had an elected governor by the name of John Calver. And it was an Indian by the name of Squanto who came to their rescue and this is, as I say, explored in great detail in Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims now, Squanto.

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Was no ordinary native early settlers in 16 10 captured him and sold him into slavery, a group of Catholic friars ended up freeing him, brought him to England, where he learned to speak English in 16 18, serving as an interpreter on an English ship, he was brought back to the new world.

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It was Squanto. Who is a famous Native American in his own right in the Pilgrim story. It was Squanto who taught the pilgrims how to plant, how to fish, how to skin beavers. It was Squanto. Who brokered a peace treaty? Between the pilgrims and other Indian tribes, there was more than one tribe of Indians, it was not copasetic, it was not friendly, and at one with nature, it was not anything like the multiculturalists would have you believe.

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There were squabbles. There were power struggles, turf battles. It was human. The Indians, the pilgrims, everybody was scrambling for power, for survival. Survivability was the name of the game, and it was not guaranteed. Now, many of the pilgrims literally believe that God had sent Squanto to save them. And they believe. Pilgrims believe that without Squanto, they never would have survived or thrived, and they they experienced a tremendous harvest in sixteen, twenty one and that's.

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The big gathering that is taught in the history books, the Native Indians and the Pilgrims, joined together for a huge feast, which is the. Foundational story of the Thanksgiving story that's taught. In public schools, but again, that is not. The real story of Thanksgiving, that's the textbook brain, it did happen, but it's so much more than that. And I love taking the opportunity every year to explain the truth, especially now, given how this election is apparently allegedly falling out, because even as the federalist side, this is so great that the story is spreading.

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One of the most important legacies of the early settlers is that they experimented with socialism in the 16, 20 years that it did not work. Private property rights, personal responsibility saved the Plymouth colony from extinction and laid the economic foundation for the free and prosperous nation that we all enjoy today. And that is exactly right. And that is the true story of Thanksgiving.

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And that has been what we have shared with you every Thanksgiving for the past thirty one years.

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Now a brief break. We'll be back after this.

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Half my brain tied behind my back. As always, just to make it fair, the Rush Limbaugh program, Capitalism for the Mind, eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. All right, Biden, as I say, while we were going through the original story, the true story of the first Thanksgiving and what it means, Biden was announcing his cabinet today, held a press conference to announce several of his foreign policy national security posts in the cabinet.

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A couple of sound bites here.

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The first, they embody my core belief that America is strongest when it works with its allies collectively. This team has secured some of the most defining national security and diplomatic achievements in recent memory made possible through decades of experience working with our partners. That's how we try to keep America safe without engaging in needless military conflicts and our adversaries in check and terrorist at bay.

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You know, I'm sorry, Senor Biden, but Trump's done all that.

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What do you mean without engaging in needless military conflict? That's what you and Obama did. You guys had us all over the world at war. Trump has brought people home. Trump Trump is the first president that's not started a war. And I don't know how many presidents, not a single war was started under Donald Trump. What are you talking about here? Keep our adversaries in check. Donald Trump has taken out terrorist leaders. Such as Qassem Soleimani in Iran, head of the Iranian Republican Guard.

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This is incredible what happened, keep terrorists at bay. Donald Trump been there, done that. You know, this is what frosts me. The drive by media doesn't report the truth of any of Trump's achievements, and they are monumental. They are extraordinary. I don't care. Foreign policy, domestic, economic. Talk about taking out terrorists, how about negating ISIS? And here comes Joe Biden, me talking about his check box of properly skin colored appointees.

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Who have some of the greatest diplomatic achievements in recent memory. What recent memory, keep America safe without engaging in needless military? We haven't been engaging in needless military conflicts since you left office. Keep our adversaries in check. How are you going to do that even better and more so than Trump did terrorists at bay? How about killing terrorist leaders like ISIS? Qassem Soleimani? Here's the next bite me.

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Something else reflect the idea that we cannot meet these challenges with old thinking and unchanged habits. Wow. For example, we're going to have the first woman lead the intelligence community, the first Latino and immigrant to lead the Department of Homeland Security, and a groundbreaking diplomat at the United Nations, a groundbreaking diplomat at the United Nations.

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I was on a break ground, the first woman to lead the intelligence community. I don't think so. Trump appointed a woman named Gina Haspel over at the CIA. If that's not the intelligence community, I don't know what it is. I'm not sure she's all that good. But he still appointed her. I know he's talking about Director of National Intelligence James Clapper gig, but folks, what were the first woman to lead the. OK, fine. Is she any good or is she being chosen because she's a woman, the first Latino and immigrant to lead the Department of Homeland Security?

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It sounds like we're checking off. Diversity identity checkboxes here. I know there's a there's another myth out there, and that myth is that we screwed the Indians out of Manhattan Island for twenty four bucks.

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It's actually the exact opposite.

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The Indians kind of screwed us. It's a funny story, but it's it's a classic example of how myths get started and they don't change. And they and they and they don't die easily. But you need to know the truth about this for the fun of it, if nothing else. So sit tight.

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All that plus your phone calls when we continue here on the EIB, the. All right, tell that guy in green that he's coming up, I'm going to get to the phones in this segment. Normally, I don't take phone calls in the monologue segment of any busy broadcast hour, but I'm going to do it today because I didn't I don't think I took a call at all in the last hour because it was the true story of Thanksgiving. And I've still got some stuff to do on that.

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Greetings. Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network. Great to have you here with us. The telephone number, eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. You want to talk about voter fraud? You want to talk about malpractice in media. Listen to this and new survey from the Media Research Center. The Media Research Center is Brent Bozell Group. They've been around about as long as this program has been around. I think we got started about the same time.

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Brent Bozell is the nephew of William F. Buckley, Jr.. You may not have known that. Did you know that Mr. Inertly? You didn't all this time. You didn't know that the bearded redheaded wonder was Buckley's nephew. Well, he is. They just did a survey. Are you ready for this? It's not a surprise, but it's still it just ticks me. Listen to this. Forty five percent of Biden voters in battleground states had never heard of the Hunter Biden scandal.

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But wait, but wait. Nine point four percent said it would have changed their vote had they heard about it. Well, that would have been enough.

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To change it, that would have been enough to change the outcome. Media malpractice. Forty five percent of Biden voters battleground states never heard of one Hunter Biden scandal. Now stop and think for a minute. Trump is talking about it all the time. He's talking about it at his rallies, he's talking about it in White House press conferences, in ads. There were numerous ads run, how about the guy that that Bubley, Yassky, whatever his name was, that was the partner who went on TV and exposed everything about this, like I'm having a mental block on his on his name.

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And the drive bys didn't cover that. They didn't cover any of it.

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So given that, let me let me grab Frank here in Fort Worth. Great to have you on the program, sir. You're up. How you doing? Thank you, Rick.

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I'm doing great. Thirty one and a half year mega dittos and prayers. Thank you very much, sir. Love your show for all this time.

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Quick comment. Speaking of your book, I don't know if you remember on the rest of your Facebook page, a few years ago, there was a Santa Claus on a motorcycle holding a little girl holding a Russian doll.

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Oh, yeah, that was me. Is that right? How about that?

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My grandkids love your books. Hey, we're talking about media malpractice. We have a media now that doesn't even pretend anymore to be unbiased. They just they just flaunt their bias. That's right. With no recourse. And and it's just blatant. My question is, is there any reversing that? No way. No. What do we do?

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I mean, look, this I could I could get as in the weeds and detailed in this answer as much as you want. It's ridiculous to say that nothing will ever change. Of course, everything does change. And some time, some day the media is going to change. But I don't know when and I don't know what the catalyst for it is going to be. And I don't know how they're going to change. But everything changes. There's nothing that never changes.

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Even the finest and greatest traditions the world is known have little changes here and there now and then. What will bring about the change in the media? Well, clearly, losing audience does not affect the way the media does their job. And losing money doesn't affect the way they do their job because they're we found out yesterday that many American newspapers, New York Times, Washington Post, have been underwritten by Chinese advertising buys government of China advertising buys not enough to keep them going, but clearly enough to help them weather bad times.

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The media really. Changed a long time ago, the media hasn't been the media, as you think of it. For many decades, if you think of the media as where you go to get news, that really hasn't existed. Probably since 1990 or maybe a little later, nineteen ninety two, there is no news anymore, persay all there is folks.

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Is the leftist agenda that is advanced under the guise of journalism? But there isn't any news, news is what news is people telling you what happened. At places you weren't and therefore you didn't see and you don't know a simple definition of journalism, telling people what happened somewhere where they weren't, that's not what goes on in journalism anymore. Journalism is pure activism. Now, journalism is particularly the what I call the drive by media, the legacy media, mainstream media.

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It is purely the Democrat Party agenda disguised as news, disguised as journalism. So what will ever change it? Will they ever be fair to certain? No, they hate conservatism, folks. They are no different than the liberal Democrats in the Democrat Party who resent that there even is opposition they're not interested in. Persuading people they're not interested in having to get into the arena of ideas and compete. And triumph over people by persuading them they want to silence opposition, they don't want there to be any opposing view, and so they engage in efforts to discredit credible spokesmen for things they don't agree with.

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It's a hideous thing. A. Nation like ours depends on a free press. I used to resent when people said that, but it's true, a nation like ours literally does depend on a free press and we don't have it. And this is story. Forty five percent of Biden voters, battleground states never heard of one Hunter Biden scandal. And nine and a half percent of them said it would have changed their vote if they had heard about it.

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So that's that's bias in the form of not covering a story purposefully.

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Now, something's going to happen someday and they will change. But what they will become. How that change will manifest itself. Who knows? But I'm simply relying on experience, guided by intelligence. Everything changes as time passes, but if you have had, you know, over the course of the 30 years doing this program, I've had.

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I've had people say and ask in one form or another. When is the media going to be fair to us? And their their point of view is that until that happens, that we will never win. And I'm here to tell you, if that's how you look at things, you better change your mind real fast. They're never going to be fair to us. They're never going to be open and fair about anything. They oppose, not just conservatism, but anything they oppose.

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That clearly. If you are. Sitting around deciding that we are never going to win until the media is fair and by your own definition, we are never going to win, they are always going to be an obstacle. They're always going to be something we have to overcome because they are the Democrat Party. It's not as though they're an adjunct. It's not as though that they are in addition to they are the Democrat Party. There is much the Democrat Party, as Joe Biden is, as Kamala Harris was.

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So. Republican candidates are going to be running against the Democrat Party wherever it's found the Democrat Party is found in big tech. The Democrat Party is found in Google, Facebook, Twitter, you name it. The Democrat Party is found in Hollywood. It's found in major books. It's found and in television shows, pop culture, if you will.

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That's what Republicans every year run against. Some figure it out and and some don't. OK, George Washington. Thanksgiving proclamation, first one, and this dovetails with the theme of the day, the true story of Thanksgiving.

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This is George Washington's Thanksgiving proclamation, first one, establishing the Thanksgiving holiday as a distinct and unique. American holiday. I'm going to read it to you in toto. It's not that long, whereas excuse me, whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and humbly to implore his protection and favor. And whereas both houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public Thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal flavors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.

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Now, therefore, I do recommend InDesign Thursday, the twenty sixth day of November, next to be devoted by the people of these states to the service of that great and glorious being who has the benefits and author beneficent author of All the good. That was. That is. Or that will be.

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That we may then all unite in rendering under him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable inter positions of his providence, which we experienced in the tranquility, the union and plenty which we have since enjoyed for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge.

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And in general, for all the great and various favors which God have been pleased to confer upon us, and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and ruler of nations.

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And beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions to enable us all, whether in public or private stations. To perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discretely and faithfully executed and obeyed, to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations, especially such as have shown kindness to us and to bless them with good government, good peace and concord to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue.

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And the increase of science among them and to us and generally to grant under all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as God alone knows, to be best given under my hand at the city of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord, 1789, George Washington.

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How many of you have heard that our founders were not religious, that they were atheists or agnostics?

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They really didn't have much to do with religion at all.

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That is George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation, thanking God in practically every sentence of it.

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For the establishment of our Constitution, for the establishment of our government, our good government, for the safety and well-being of our people. For blessing the United States of America. This is how far we have strayed. A speech like this or a Thanksgiving proclamation like this? Why there would be hell to pay. The American left imagine Donald Trump reading this proclamation in the name of George Washington. Imagine that happening. Imagine the reaction of the American left wing labor to civil rights violations, separation of church and state, forcing religion on people.

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Of course, this was not forcing religion, but this is simply an acknowledgement. By the first president of the United States, the role God played in the establishment of this country for which he was their. Oh, he participated in a brief break, we'll be back and continue after this meeting and surpassing all audience expectations. Every day, I'm Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchorman. Americans drove the tractor and the doctor of democracy here we go back to the phones.

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This is John in Bogota, New Jersey. Welcome, sir. Glad you waited. How are you doing?

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Hello, Ross. I'm doing well. How are you doing? I'm fine, sir. Thank you so much.

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OK, that's great. That's glad to hear that. And that's Bogota, New Jersey. And I just want to thank you for.

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Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

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Did I mispronounce it slightly? What did I call it? Bogota. That's of. That's right. Yeah. That's in Colombia. That's right. Well, it is a foreign country. Your state is to me, because that stupid governor pretty much got it right.

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You're right. OK, I stand corrected. I'm sorry about that.

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That's all right. I don't mean to correct the host, but I just want to thank you for all you do and and thank you for your annual Thanksgiving refresher. It's I look forward to hearing that every year. And I want to wish you and your family and your staff a happy Thanksgiving.

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Thank you, sir, very much so. And Mr. Snowden, he told me I need to get to my point. So back in 2008, you took an awful lot of criticism and a lot of heat for saying that you hope that Obama fails, that you you don't want him to succeed. And I think that this year they would be a lot more people. I would understand if you were to say that again. You think so?

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I think you know, so let me go back. And for people that remember, we've got people listening to this who've never heard that, well, they might have heard about it. I'm sure they heard about it, but they didn't get the truth of it. After Obama was elected in 2008, The Wall Street Journal reached out to several prominent opinion leaders, one of whom was me, powerful, influential member of the media. They asked me to write 400 words as they asked everybody else that they were inviting on their hopes for the Obama administration and first African-American president.

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And I wrote back to The Wall Street Journal. I said, I don't need 400 words. I only need four. I hope he fails. Well, all hell broke loose. And I am I embarked on what was a. It must have been a three week explanation tour, which was totally unnecessary because everybody that was objecting to it knew exactly what I meant. I wanted Obama's socialist policies to fail. I wanted Obamacare not to be implemented. I didn't want national health care run by people that had never done anything in health care.

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Obama hasn't had any experience in the private sector running anything. Why is he qualified to run the health care system? He's never worked in a hospital and don't understand that none of his people do either. They're just a bunch of theorists that work at the faculty lounge at some university. These people were not qualified other than having won an election, so. I hoped Obama failed. Now, my critics said that what I was doing was hideous, that I was saying I hope America failed.

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Nothing could have been further from the truth than anybody who knows me knows.

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I would never, ever hope for that. I was hoping for the exact opposite. If Obama's policies failed, then America was saved. If Obama's policies bombed out, that America would be OK. That's what I was hoping for and that's what I meant. And every critic of mine knew it.

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All right. A brief break. We'll be right back.

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Welcome back, my friend. It's great to be with you as always. Rush Limbaugh, the special Thanksgiving edition of the EIB Network and the Rush Limbaugh program tonight. OK, one final element here.

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Many of you, many of us believe that the United States in its early days was mean and selfish, and we cheated people among the people, we cheated the engines, the Native Americans, we stole Manhattan from them for the equivalent of twenty four measly bucks. How many of you people believe this? I was taught the same thing. Yeah, one of the great myths of Thanksgiving is that we swindled the Indians when we bought Manhattan Island from them.

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We swindled them. Twenty four bucks. Is the equivalent price we paid. It turns out, though, according to a book about Theodore Roosevelt, that it isn't true.

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It turns out that the Indians are the ones that ran the real estate scam when they sold Manhattan.

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It's a book on Theodore Roosevelt, Commissioner Roosevelt, The Story of Theodore Roosevelt in the New York City Police. Eighteen ninety five to 1897 by Paul Jeffries.

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And here are the relevant words about this.

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A persuasive case can be made at the city of New York began with a swindle. For generations, schoolchildren have been taught that a slick trick was played on unsuspecting engines by the director of the Dutch West Indies company, a guy named Peter Minuit. He might have pronounced that minuet, I don't know, in sixteen twenty six. He purchased the island of Manhattan. For 60 guilders worth of trinkets is about twenty four dollars. By the way, there still is a Manhattan park.

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Murders take place there, they do a lot of murder investigation, the Manhattan Park, but this is 16. Twenty six. What Peter meant, you did not know at the time, however, was that his masterful real estate deal had been struck with the Canarsie tribe, the forerunners of the Guardian Angels, the residents of Long Island.

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They held no title to the land that they sold to the Dutch. They didn't have the property rights. They sold it. It wasn't theirs to sell. Typical of a bunch of people from Canarsie in due course. The intruders from Amsterdam in Holland who thought they had pulled a sharp one on the locals were forced into negotiating a second and more costly deal with the true landlords of Manhattan, which is what it was called Manhattan, an honor that is still a Manhattan park.

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So the twenty four bucks. That we paid did not buy anything because of the people selling it, the Canarsie tribe, the forerunners of the Garden Guardian Angels, had nothing to sell.

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They didn't own it. I just I love the story.

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So here is here's Linda, Daytona Beach, Florida, your next on the EIB Network. Great to have you.

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Hello. Happy Thanksgiving, Rush. Thank you. Thank you very much for doing the show. I appreciate that. Thank you very much for calling. Anyhow, I'll get to the points real quickly. I was wondering where Barr, the great A.G. Barr and the corrupt FBI are on these illegal votes of federal crime? And why aren't the feds in on this? And if the Republicans who rode Trump's coattails to the win don't help Trump and stand up for him, or if they work with the Democrat communists, I will not only not vote for that Republican, I will vote for the Democrat running against him.

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It's the only way to primaried these people out. I think you would actually vote for some.

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You'd vote for a Democrat. How are we going to frighten these Republicans into doing the right thing like Trump has been doing? There are some who are doing it and some who aren't. Yeah, I, I, I look, I share your frustration over the lack of support that Trump has received. In fact, in fact, let me I've got a story in the stack. Let me get the right stack. You've probably heard about this is idiot Carl Bernstein.

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Oh, I've got this Pennsylvania governor.

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These Democrat governors are going, PowerMan, wait, wait till you hear what what's going on in Pennsylvania if you haven't already. Let me find this thing from Carl. Here it is.

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Carl Bernstein says that twenty one Republican senators have told him that they have contempt for Trump. And he is now calling out these twenty one Republican senators and demanding that they go public with it rather than just tell him the list includes Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, Florida Senator Rick Scott.

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Let's see, there's a there's a Pat Roberts, Lamar Alexander, Richard Shelby, a bunch of others, 21 in total.

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Here we go. The twenty one senators who have privately expressed their disdain to Carl Bernstein. For Trump are Rob Portman of Ohio, Lamar Alexander, Ben Sasse, Sasse, we know Roy Blunt, Missouri, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, John Cornyn of Texas, John Thune, Mitt Romney, Tim Scott, South Carolina, Rick Scott Rubio, Grassley, Richard Burr, Pat Toomey, Martha McSally.

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Richard Shelby is a bunch of them.

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And Bernstein says he's not violating any pledge of journalistic confidentiality in reporting this. And he wants them to go public. He says that they have privately over the years expressed their total contempt for Trump. I'm. How is it any different than outing? What, Burton? Well, I tell you, because these people have got it, Bernstein and his ilk have got it. So in four Trump, they are not you know, they're not going to be satisfied until Trump is dead.

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They're not going to be set. And then they think they have contributed to his demise. The dispiriting and depressing erm I mean, these people are literally sick, but the point here, folks, is that Trump basically has been it's phenomenal what he's done because he basically has been a one man show. You can count the number of House Republicans that you could rely on, Devon, known as Jim Jordan.

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And now I'm going to leave some out there. There are others that Matt gets out of Florida, but there's a bunch of good ones, Ron de Santos, the governor of Florida. But Trump has accomplished what he accomplished, basically as. A one man show with occasionally some some Republican support. The deep state is properly named, it's deep and it is cronyism extraordinaire.

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And the simple fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Republicans do not want the deep state disbanded, I don't care what they said. I don't care how they attempted to make you think that they were on the same pages as Trump in that regard. They don't.

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They like their place in it, even though their place is primarily as losers with honor. And it's a very frustrating thing, it's amazing what Donald Trump was able to accomplish, how much he was able to accomplish without a broad based.

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Support from within his own party is really a phenomenal when you stop thinking, I got to take a break, which we'll do and continue right after that.

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Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, half my brain tied behind my back, as always, to be fair. Yes, sirree.

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Now, I mentioned that the at the beginning of the program that it's normally at at Christmas time that I got all sentimental and thankful about the wonderful things that have happened to me because of you and that have accrued to me and my family because of you. And I don't know why Christmas time as opposed to Thanksgiving, but I thought I would switch it up this year. And reiterate these things that that I try to share with you each and every year at Christmas time or during this holiday type season and this year especially has been incredible.

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There were days I didn't think I would be here on this date. There were days that I thought if I was here, I wouldn't be doing this. But I'm alive and kicking and. Thriving and I think a lot of it. Is I've got the greatest support system at home that you could possibly imagine, unconditional support. And this is very hard, this circumstance, I'm in stage four lung cancer, this is a very, very difficult thing for.

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Members of the family. It's scary, it's. Scary for all kinds of reasons, the unknown, it's just it's just and it's day to day scary.

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And yet I am greeted each day with the best efforts that everybody in my life is making to be happy and normal and. While acknowledging the reality, not dwelling on it, focusing on the goodness that exists each day and there is goodness in everything that happens, it may not be immediately apparent, but it's there and it will eventually reveal itself. It always does. And such has been the case with me during this circumstance, you play a role as well.

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You are here in record numbers, folks, you are listening to this program in record numbers. It's a big deal. It's how success is measured in this business. It's one of two or three ways. And you are setting records. You're setting records in two ways. The numbers of people, numbers of you who are listening and what is called time spent listening. How long you're listening. It's incredible.

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And so I owe so many people so much, I I'm never going to be able to adequately thank the people who are. Responsible for one of the greatest lives anybody could have had. Have has. I am doing what I was born to do, it was what I wanted to do since I was eight years old. I have met the goals I set for myself, I've maintained them and I have been able to do it all for the most part on my terms, I just it cannot get any better.

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I have been. So thankful for the for the blessings that I have and to be able to share all of this with you and tell you how grateful I am, how gratified I am that you have made this possible in my family, first and foremost. I guess I can't those of you who have been through this, you know what I'm talking about. But it is. Just. Incredible the contributions that they make to enable. Me to continue to do this and to do that, which makes me happy, which is about as much as anybody can ask for.

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So thank you all very much. Well, we'll be back on Monday after a little extended Thanksgiving break. I hope you have a great rest of the week and Thanksgiving, whatever you got planned, I hope it's the best ever.

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Thank you once again for everything that you have meant to my family. Thank you again, folks.

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Bottom of my heart. Bottom of our hearts here at the EIB Network. And we look forward to being back here a week from yesterday. Be back on Monday for one day.

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Treatment week next week. See you then.