Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast, The Frenzy, The Panic, the out of control is the Democrat Party finds itself in its all self recrimination. They brought all of this on themselves and they know it and they are fit to be tied. They may want to try to blame all of this on Donald Trump, but they can't. They have only got their own arrogance and their own presumptuous stupidity to blame for this, because they thought they thought two things they thought they would never lose in 2016.

And especially they thought they would never lose to Donald Trump. So they could play around with the filibuster and they can play around with the confirmation process, can do everything they wanted to do because when they ran the show, because it was all going to benefit them. But then they lost the show. They lost the show 20, 2014, 2016, 2018, they lost the Senate. The Senate is the show when talking about all of it and they lost it.

And so all of those things they did to empower themselves in perpetuity. Then redounded to the Republicans, and it was they and the Republicans that got to use those levers of power, they blew it three times, folks, after Obama's re-election in 2012, they lost the Senate three times, as I just said. Twenty, fourteen, twenty, sixteen, twenty, eighteen.

And then Dingy Harry Harry Reid, the Democrat leader in the Senate in 2013, he ditched the judicial filibuster. Meaning no reason, no requirement to get the 60 votes before you can vote on confirmation, a simple 50 one vote majority because they were thinking already of packing the court.

Two thousand eight hundred twenty twenty four.

They were dreaming of 16 years of Democratic presidencies and they could steamroll appointments, pack the court, they could forever shape the Supreme Court into being something the Republicans would never, ever have any power over or control of ever again, except they lost the Senate the next year after Dingy Harry did this in twenty fourteen, they lost the Senate.

Now it's all Trump's fault. Now, Trump, now it's Mr. Orange Man's fault, ladies and gentlemen, Ginsburg, Justice Ginsburg, you know, she gambled and it didn't it didn't pan out.

Sadly, Justice Ginsburg and everybody is now saying this, including the Democrats.

That when she was eighty one or eighty two, she should have resigned. When Obama had the Senate in 2013 and throughout the year 2014, that's the campaign year that the Democrats lost. And so the new Senate impaneled in 2015 is when it actually began the Republican control. But they thought you see in their arrogance, in their condescending arrogance, they thought Hillary Clinton would win.

They thought she was invincible. They thought she and they would both all outlast Trump. Mr. Orangeman.

Now they are crazy. They're going because they know all of this, Mr. Snowden. They know all of this. They know they did this to themselves. So now they're coming along and trying to ignore that as far as the public opinion is concerned. And they're trying to make it look like the Republicans played all these conniving, scheming games. And it's about time for the Republicans to fix what they broke. And the way the Republicans can do that is for Trump not to name a nominee and for Trump not to have a vote.

Let me say what's going to happen, folks. Trump's going to name a replacement and there's going to be a vote. And you know what else? It is plain as day in the Constitution, there are two things here that are required. The president nominates a replacement. The Senate does its advise and consent. You realize there's nothing about the Judiciary Committee conducting hearings. That's just something that evolved. That's not a requirement. If McConnell wants to, because you know what the hell with this, we don't have enough time.

We're just going to go straight to the vote and he can do it. Whether he will or not, I don't know. But he should. Folks, this is it. This is it, this is this is a this is not all off yet, but this is one of the it's. That Trump's election was all about this is it the shaping of the Supreme Court and the Democrats know it? Donald Trump was elected in 2016. He had gone public with his Supreme Court nominee list.

Trump is way out ahead. He's Joe Biden still won't do it. And until Biden does that, until Biden furnishes a list, there should be nobody taking anybody on the Democrat side seriously about delaying the naming of a replacement for Ruth Ginsburg. No way. Biden probably doesn't even have a list. It's whoever is running Biden that has the list and they don't want to release it. But until they do, they can't have a serious we can't have a serious discussion.

About this whole thing, but the bottom line is this is it, we need this seat in the hands of a conservative and it needs to happen as soon as possible. It is a relevant part of now the election. I told you. I told you the election things are going to shape the election. Haven't even happened yet. Told you this last week before Ruth Ginsburg passed away. Do not doubt me.

And the Democrats know the position that they are in now, they're out there, they're threatening things, but the problem is they've been threatening this for years. So it's no longer a threat. It's kind of like your uncle at Thanksgiving dinner. It won't show up and you send him up to the third floor attic for the rest of the day.

They say that if they win everything in 2012, they win the White House and if they capture the Senate and then hold onto the House, they're going to end the Senate filibuster for every thing, which means that legislation will just be rubber. They're threatening everybody.

They are promising slash, threatening to pack the court.

15 to 16, no. Total 15 to 16.

There are nine there now, seven and six that would put them at 15, make them all commie bastard leftists and they're going to do this, they say, ASEP, if they did that.

Now, look, I've been the one telling you this is what they're going to do. Have you ever wondered how I knew it? Aside from my brilliant political and analytical skills, they've been telling everybody they're going to do this. They've been trying to scare everybody. And they've been using it as a way to hype their own base. And then they are going to ditch the Electoral College, buy voter compact, move, they want to get rid of the Electoral College and they can't.

By the way, if they run everything. They can change the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Congress set up the court system Congress long ago did. Congress has control over it, according to the Constitution. So we we call it packing the court, but they can do it if they want. And if they control everything, the Republicans are not going to have the votes. Stop them, folks.

Which is the key all, and then the statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, that would give them four brand new Senate seats and they would all four be commie bastard leftists.

Oh, and then for good measure, they would add 16 year old voting. They're doing that in California. And felon voting, I mean, folks are going to have to scrape the proverbial bottom of the barrel to get close to having a voting majority, because as things stand, the Democrat Party, the radical left, are nowhere near being a majority in this country. It's one of the greatest scams that the media has succeeded in running, making it look like you and I and people on our side are outnumbered.

We are not and it's not even close yet, but it's dangerously trending. These guys, the Democrat, their socialist revolutionaries, they want to change the rules to stay in power permanently, and they will if they win the White House and if they win the Senate, I think Trump should name his replacement. I don't know who it's going to be. And he could screw everybody up here, not screw it, but he can he can confound everybody by naming a white male.

Could you imagine if he. I don't think that's going to be.

Oh, but if he did that, no, I don't know who it's going to be. But let's let's say that it is an Hispanic female from Florida and there is one available.

I want to see the Democrats for two weeks. For four weeks. I want to see them trash and Hispanic female. I want to see them. Kavanagh and Hispanic female. I want to watch them do this. I want to watch them try to get away with it. You don't think they will? They would do it like they did Miguel Estrada, absolute, like they do Clarence Thomas, like they do any other conservative minority, they ever get on them for being traitors, failures, phonies bought and paid for by the white establishment.

Well, there's no question that they would do it. Yes, this is probably right then called her the second white Hispanic who was the first white Hispanic was George what was his name down there in Florida who dropped George Zimmerman, the first white Hispanic guy that that caused Trayvon Martin to be deceased. And she was the first The New York Times, the first white Hispanic. She would be the second white Hispanic because how they would how they would do it.

But, you know, I mentioned that the Judiciary Committee does not have to do its thing. It's become a tradition, but it's not a requirement. And since Trump has already driven them crazy. Since Trump's already I mean, long before today, they are crazy. Then why not just blow up another tradition? Because I'll tell you, that's how we're going to maintain the ones that matter. It is the very traditions and institutions that define this country that the left has in its crosshairs, they have to be defeated.

This Supreme Court seat has to be.

Confirmed it has to be named and confirmed before the election. All this talk about waiting till after the election, Donald Trump was elected in 2016 on the very basis of the fact that he had a list of names and people were able to judge those names and his candidacy as a as a result. The 2020 election has nothing to do with this Supreme Court seat, folks. It has nothing to do with it. Don't fall for this idea that all this is so close to the election.

We we need we need to wait. We need to wait for the election so that the right president gets to make. No, no, no. We've already voted on the president gets to make this pick. And Donald Trump, is he. The 2016 election is what this nomination is about. Not the 2020 election. Both in terms of timeline, legalities and common sense, the 2020 election has nothing to do.

With this Supreme Court opening. I want the Judiciary Committee. I could be great if it were skipped. We don't need to open that up for whatever length of time so that whoever this nominee is can be Kavanaugh's or Borked autonomist, because that's what it's going to be, especially when it's not even required. In addition, there are people on the Judiciary Committee who need to be out campaigning in October. Not trying to deflect leftist attempts. To distort the nominee's junior high school yearbook.

And when the vote count is assured, Mitch McConnell needs to take it straight to the floor of the Senate and have the vote and you know, Murkowski and Collins and Romney, you three, you need to look at this a different way. You were elected. You were elected. Your voters presume that you're going to be their.

At times like this, don't tell me, David, don't tell me your voters don't also support Donald Trump, you people, Romney, Murkowski, Collins, you you are on the cusp of misreading your own voters about this.

But when the vote count is assured, go straight to the floor for a vote in a way that protects the senators from being all that attacked by the Democrat mobs, it stops a whole bunch of that.

You do we don't want to give Kamala Harris the opportunity to grandstand in that committee as a vice presidential running mate of plugs anyway, I've got to take a quick time out here, folks.

We're just getting warmed up and we will be back in a minute.

Now, folks, let me remind you of something that I'm sure a lot of you have forgotten. Twenty eighteen. The Senate, the Republicans holding the Senate in twenty eighteen was a shock and a surprise to a lot of people. You remember this in the the midterms in in twenty eighteen Democrats won the House and it was big. There was a huge flip. There were a lot of Republicans that quit, a lot of Republicans that retired in the House.

Incumbency is one of the most powerful re-election tools any politician has going. And there were fifty five Republicans that quit. I'm sorry they retired, but in the Senate. Four Democrats lost. Four Democrats lost, and one of the reasons that the Republicans gained the Senate in twenty eighteen or gained seats in the Senate was related to Kavanaugh. And you know what the relationship to Kavanaugh is? For Democrat senators lost their seats precisely because they opposed Kavanaugh and because they threw in with what was an obvious Rindy attempt led by Christine Bowlsby Ford, those senators were Heidi Heitkamp, Donnelly, Claire McCaskill from Missouri and Nelson in Florida.

Those four lost it. Now the Democrat Party is out there and is going to continue to be out there trying to scare Republicans by telling them it's going to be really dangerous for you people to move on the nominee. You Republicans, if you go ahead and do this when it's the next election, that should determine the president and gets the name Ginsburg's view. Republicans do this.

You are playing with political fire. And the point is that it's the exact opposite.

That happens to be true. Kimberly Strassel, Wall Street Journal tweeted about this.

Yesterday, a couple of days ago. She said Democrats are going to take to every media outlet to say it will be politically dangerous for Republican senators to go ahead and vote on a nominee. The exact opposite is true. Twenty eighteen four Democrats senators lost their seats because they opposed Cabinet, meaning the Republicans. Who are up for election this year had better be real careful how they go on this. They need whatever whoever the nominee is and whenever that nominee is named, they need to openly support that nominee.

The Trump base is going to demand it. The Republican base is going to demand it. It's not the Democrats do not let them scare you into going against what is going to be the most beneficial for you.

We'll be back. It is the EIB Network Excellence in Broadcasting Rush Limbaugh dulcet tones behind the Golden EIB microphone, a household name and all four corners of the world. Let me go to white suburban New York and grab a quick phone call. This is Andy and welcome, sir. Great to have you here with us.

Thank you, Rush. Oh, this Murkowski, Collins and Romney. How many is one of those three? Do we need to to to get this justice through?

We don't need any of those who we can't lose any more. OK, ok. I don't know what these people are thinking. Oh my God. Yeah. I don't know why the people of Utah.

I'll tell you what they're thinking. And they're thinking like Democrats, they're thinking that most people in the country hate Trump.

They think that most people look at Trump and see this vile Mr. Orangeman, and they are they're dead wrong about it, but there's nothing new in it.

They are proud moderates. If there's anything that ought to disqualify or discredit moderates, it's these three. It's because they they illustrate how misunderstood the term is moderate, moderate, is not open minded and willing to examine moderate means and tie Republican. Or in the current context, moderate means anti Trump. Moderate undecided means anti trumpet's all you have to know. So here's what can happen. You lose Murkowski and Collins almost by rote because they they misunderstand what's going on and they they they're scared to death of the Democrats.

There's a photo out there. You know, I need to find this photo for my archives. There is a photo of Dianne Feinstein during the Kavanaugh hearings and this photo. She's with Murkowski. She's got Murkowski pinned up against the wall and she is attempting, even though Feinstein's a tiny little lump, too, she's attempting to tower over Murkowski. It is clear that Dianne Feinstein is engaging in intimidation of Murkowski. And I think it works.

But Trump has some things up his sleeve, such as the nominee, him or herself. If Trump nominates the right person, it can bring a lot of pressure on these three people. Oh, really, Senator Murkowski, you have a problem with an Hispanic female being nominated who happens to be Republican conservative leaning on a Supreme Court. Really, Miss Collins, you got a problem, you want to join the Democrats here in trashing an Hispanic female or a Catholic female in case of error, Amy Barat, not what they would say.

No, it's not about the nominee. I think the president should wait. I think the next election should determine the nominee. That is such a cop out. That is fear.

That is fear, I mean, it making itself so obvious, but the numbers are this, and we can afford to lose three, but no more.

It would bring in Mike Pence as the tie breaking vote, the vice president, the president of the Senate, and he would go in and he would vote to break the tie and then the Trump nominee would be confirmed.

OK, I got the photo here. I'm going to it's going to take me a while till the next break before I can get it moved into position for the can. But hang on front. I'll show it to you in just a jiffy here, folks. The bottom line is that I don't know if we've really lost Murkowski and Collins for good. Probably so. But who the nominee is is going to play a big role in this.

They are, as I say, illustrating the phoniness of being moderate and and and undecided. So we've got we've got time.

And here's another thing to Trump has said that he is going to wait until after Justice Ginsburg has been buried, which should be Arlington National Cemetery, before naming the nominee. A lot of people on our side, I heard from him and I started panicking.

There are people that are afraid if Trump doesn't name the nominee today, that it's all going to get destroyed and it's going to get lost, that we're going to lose the momentum, that we're going to lose what we've got going for us right now.

And I don't subscribe to that theory.

The theory on the part of those who are a little worried about this is that the Democrats can delay and delay and delay the actual burial of of Justice Ginsburg until after the election, if they want, which they can't. There's a whole host of reasons why. Now, Trump has said today, even despite the announcement that she's going to be buried in Arlington National, Trump said today he's going to name his pick Friday or Saturday. Regardless which side of the grass Justice Ginsburg is on.

And I think the president knows what he's doing here. I think he knows in fact, there's a quote I saw the presence that we got all the time in the world, the way he's looking at this, the more time without, you know, nobody's thinking of delaying this.

Beyond the election, don't panic over that, the more time there is here, the more time there is for the left to go bonkers on this. There's more time for the left to go literally crazy and try to affect or impact whether Trump names anybody or not or whether it is a vote or not. But then there's another thing that goes. The longer that Trump can keep this whole thing as a lead item, that's less time that covid-19 can spend occupying lead news story status.

And you can't ruling that out. But I think Trump's thinking is the more time there is here, the greater the opportunity the Democrats and the left are going to make abject total fools of themselves.

Do you think, for example, it helps them to be out there promising to pack the Supreme Court? Do you think it helps them to be claiming that what they're going to do is grant statehood to the recall and the District of Columbia Circuit for brand new Democrat senators for life? I think that helps them because they're out there threatening to do it. And the threat, by the way, has been met with snoozes and crickets because how many times can you make the threat before it loses its impact?

And they've made the threat so many times and everybody's aware this is what they're going to do now. So there's no shock value to it. There's no there's no surprise in it.

Then you have Biden who will not even produce a list. I don't know, folks. I don't know how. I do not know how. The Democrats can sit there and and criticize Trump. And suggests this to Trump, not name his pick, let it be waited and delayed until after the election when Biden won't even produce a list.

The Biden campaign plugs himself will not even produce a list of potential nominees. Well, then there's no reason especially and that's situation. There's no reason to wait until after the election because Plug's doesn't even want his list of potential nominees to be a factor in the election. Whereas Trump has made it a centerpiece. He's made it a centerpiece twice, made a centerpiece in 2016. He's made a centerpiece for 2020. And again, I'm telling you, the 2020 elections got nothing to do with this Supreme Court vacancy, absolutely nothing to do with it.

The Democrats are trying to say that it does they're using their traditional control of the media, for example, the media is already out. Over the weekend, the media was already out with a poll saying Republicans lose big if they hold a vote for a replacement. That's just a crock. There is no way a reliable poll could have been done that quickly. Because if there was a reliable poll out there that everybody believe in Thom Tillis, Martha McSally would not have jumped on the yes.

So fast and they both did. They both jumped on. Yes, they're going to vote for the nominee. They're going to do it before the election. And it ought to happen before the election. There is not. A reliable poll, and yet there's the media saying they've got a poll, I think it was Reuters, I'm not sure which there was out there saying that they've got a big poll.

Republicans lose big time if they hold a vote on a replacement nominee. Now, you know another thing, folks, you know that from here to the election, the Democrats have a series of these bombshells every two or three days or something new. Past four years has been at least every week, sometimes every day, but they've had something new, every we've been talking about it and you know that they have had they've got a list. They've got a whole series of these bombshells that they had lined up.

That they were going to drop every other day up until the election. You have to ask what the press is going to do with all of those. Those bombshells just going to accumulate, they're not going to be dropped. Because we've got the presses that we've got to stay focused on, make sure Trump does not name this replacement. Make sure there's not a vote.

You watch covid masks, they could theoretically become nonissues real quickly, too, as all of this overwhelms everything. This is the last thing the Democrats thought, the last thing the Democrats ever counted on happening. That's why I say the events that shape elections largely have yet to happen, especially when you're a month out, way too much can still happen. And in this situation, they weren't ready at all.

And you can see it. They're panicking every which way. They got a quick time out. Back with more in a moment.

HAMMERBACK Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden, the EIB microphone serving humanity. And I just got a quick note from a brilliant friend, a brilliant legal mind and and friend as Mr. Limbaugh. There's another possibility out there, and it is that Susan Collins and Murkowski could not vote at all as opposed to voting against the nominee. They could simply vote present, thereby abstaining, showing their opposition against a procedure, but not voting against the nominee. It's true, they could abstain, they could express their displeasure with the procedure and thereby dump on Mr.

Orangeman but not vote against the nominee if they vote present, it doesn't count against a vote against the nominee. Now, the Democrats only have forty seven votes against the Republicans only need forty eight. If the Collins Murkowski people don't vote at all for Romney in there, if they don't vote at all, if they abstain, if they vote present, then all you need is forty eight votes and you don't need to get to fifty one.

And that is something they can do. And it's it's something that they might seriously consider, not want to vote against the nominee, but do want to vote against the procedure. And that's how they would do it. All right, here's the photo. And we have had this photo op at Rush Limbaugh Dotcom before we put it up during the cabinet hearings. But I want to show you how this stuff works. The first photo I want to put up is a long shot of Senator Dianne Feinstein having pinioned Murkowski up against the wall and telling her what for.

And we've got a close up of this. May, we're showing this little cam right now for those of you who are subscribing to the digital cam, but fear not. These photos that we're showing will be on the website, the Rush Limbaugh dot com website on the free side in mere moments. This is not a cheap trick to get people to subscribe. But that picture, you know, with with Feinstein got her left hand up when her hand up there against the wall looks like the Hitler salute.

Just to give you an idea what it's not what it is don't understand. But it looks like that with the left arm left hand, of course, which makes it not Hitler salute because that happened with the right arm.

I'm just trying to give you a mental picture here. And Murkowski is cowering. She's holding what looks like her phone in her right hand or something. She got her personal left hand. But Dianne Feinstein is telling Murkowski how it's going to be. Now, let's switch. We have a close up of this and there is the close up for those of you watching a little candy.

You can see on the left side there, Dianne Feinstein is not happy and she is giving Murkowski the what for. And Murkowski looks pained. Murkowski looks to be suffering. Would you agree with this interpretation?

Mr. Sterling looks to be her eyes are closed. She looks to be she's either frustrated, flabbergasted, or she is frightened. Maybe that frightens you, just maybe she realizes on which side of the bread her butter is. But Diane Feinstein, there is no doubt what's happening here. Dianne Feinstein is telling Murkowski how she going to vote, what it's going to mean. I mean, there is a a sense of resolve and mean spirit. There's a demand on that facial expression of Dianne Feinstein.

What are you saying in there? What are you saying? Well, that's a good way to say. It looks like bullying. That's exactly it's a great way to describe it. Bullying is not in my vocabulary because it's not a big deal. But but yes, there is. That's exactly what's happening there. Defy is bullying. Poor little Lisa. The Democrat is bullying the Republican babe.

Grab another phone call here while we have time. This is Brian in St. Augustine, Florida. Great to have you, sir. You're next.

Hey, thanks for taking my call. I just wanted to say that the biggest mistake the Republicans made was in 2016. People like Lindsey Graham making excuses for doing what they had the power to do and now it's coming to bite them all in the rear end.

Like, what do you mean? I mean, what did he do?

Well well, when he said, oh, well, use my words against me. We're doing this because it's the the last year when when there's an election coming up with the with this with Merrick Garland, they should've just said you would do the same thing if the roles were reversed to the Democrats. And that's the result of having the power in the Senate. Oh, I see you're thinking that Lindsey Graham should have just been forthright, upfront and honest rather than try to make excuses.

Exactly.

Well, don't make excuses for. Is it going to matter now? Does it matter now?

Well, it doesn't matter. But now now the Democrats have all these talking points that they can go ahead and say, oh, well, you said this four years ago, but now the Republicans have. Well, Ruth Bader Ginsburg herself said this.

It's right that you said this four years ago goes both ways.

But that that that doesn't I don't mean to be trying to say your call is insignificant. Please don't misunderstand. The the only relevant bottom line we have here is not what Lindsey Graham said or any other. Senator Murkowski, in fact, is we got President Trump and that's going to determine what's going to happen.

And mark my words, it's going to happen.

And I look now, I have not confirmed this, but I I have been told that the one of the reasons why Plug's will not release his list of Supreme Court nominees is that Stacey Abrams, the perennial I should be governor of Georgia woman, is at the top of it.

That is a reason to keep the list hidden, if you ask me.

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So it is it's true. The entire left is out screaming. Trump should not nominate a replacement for Ruth Ginsburg, that the next president who is installed should make the pick, what is this installed business? The next president is not going to be installed, the next president is elected and then inaugurated, where did this installed business come from? I'll tell you in a minute. But the entire left includes Barack Hussein Obama. Plug's Biden, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, every Democrat senator and at least two Republicans, every single consultant, every single talking head on cable.

Everybody screaming that Trump should not make the pick until after the election. But that would mean that we would have to know who's on Trump's list, which we do, because Trump has released it. But Joe Biden is not releasing his list and he is saying he's not going to release his list. Well, hey, you radical leftist, you don't get it both ways. And by the way, you're not going to get this anyway. But I'm just making a point.

You don't get it both ways. You don't get to say. That we need to wait for the next president to pick when your nominee will not make his list public. How can the voters make an informed choice? They can't, as I say, I am told, and I don't have any idea how reliable it is, that one of the reasons Plug's is not making his list public is because of who's on it.

And supposedly near or at the top of his list is the the Stacey Abrams, this woman in Georgia who still thinks that she won the governorship there.

Two years ago or four, yeah, coming up on four years ago, you know, the one that Oprah went in there and they had a they had coffee and donuts, a little meeting there. And Oprah tried to push Stacey Abrams over the top, but that was a big push. I mean, there's a lot of weight involved there. And it didn't quite didn't quite get over the over the hump, so to speak. It doesn't matter. Stacey Abrams thinks she won anyway.

All the votes have been counted or whatever, but she is not nationally accepted. She is not. She's loved and adored by leftist Democrats, but nobody else.

So until Plug's makes his list public. And then, of course, we have the Supreme Court justice herself, Ruth Ginsburg, it is said, we are told.

That with her last breath. She dictated to her granddaughter. Shortly before she died, quote, My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed. There it is installed.

So we are being asked to believe that in her last. Conscious moments. Justice Ginsburg dictated to her granddaughter my most fervent wish. Is that I will not be replaced until the new president is installed. You k now, they were asking the president about this this morning, he was on Fox and Friends Ainsley Erhart said to President Trump, Ruth Ginsburg told her granddaughter on her deathbed, allegedly, that her dying wish, her most fervent dying wish was to have the next president choose her successor.

How do you think that all plays out?

Well, I don't know that she said that. Or was that written out by Adam Schiff that Schumer and Pelosi? I would be more inclined to the second, you know, that came out of the way. And it sounds so beautiful, but that sounds like a Schumer deal or maybe a Pelosi or Shifty Schiff. So that came out of the wind, let's say. I mean, maybe she did it. Maybe she did. Look, the bottom line is we won the election.

Is this not why we love the guy? Who else would say this? I don't believe she said anything in the start. That sounds like something Pelosi wrote. It sounds like something Adam Schiff wrote. It does sound political. It sounds like a political consultant. But look at these people are the funeral crashers, not just Wedding Crashers. They they will corrupt anything by politicizing it. They'll turn any event, including the death of one of their most revered Supreme Court justices into nothing more than a political event and attempt to advance their power and agenda.

In a way, folks, it's kind of sick in a way it's kind of sick that in the Democrat Party and the radical left movement, there isn't anybody safe.

There isn't anybody.

Whose life and whose death will not be reduced to the most necessary or opportune political objective of the moment.

So here is a woman whose resume is amazing, whose life was full. Being reduced to a campaigner, the last thing she said, the last thing she dictated had to do with. Making sure the Democrats had something to say about it, and I don't doubt that this is one of the reasons she kept hanging on, but looking back, she should have retired when Obama was president, but nobody thought Trump was going to win.

And so they thought that they were.

They were getting away with a bunch of objectives at the at the same time, but you see, folks, it doesn't the ball doesn't always bounce their way.

It doesn't always bounce in their favor. Katherine and I on Saturday night were watching the Trump rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina, when this happened as President Barack Hussein Obama.

Or is Rush Limbaugh the great how great is Rush to love Rush? As Rush Limbaugh would say, Barack Hussein Obama never hit Rush. Barack Hussein Obama. Rush is great. He's doing well, too. He's great. He's a tough guy. We love rice. We love you. You he watches every one of these. You know, he's supported me. When I came down with our great first lady, I came down the escalator, I made a speech.

I didn't even have a speechwriter. I had a Winget. But Rush said, I like that guy. Never heard that before. I never heard. We're going to build the wall. We're going to have secure borders. We're going to make new trade deals that are like saying we're going to do all the things, we're going to rebuild our military. We're going to have a strong country again. We did so many things and Rush heard this. I didn't know Rush.

I mean, maybe I met him once or twice for two seconds and he became an instant fan of Trump. And he was for a long time before I even got to know him. And he's been so important, you know, he's the king. Thirty nine million listeners. There's nobody like him. Try sitting down for what is a three hours and talking. Just talking with everyone. The thirty nine million people often try sending. We love Rush.

I love Rush. But listen, try sitting down with a radio show with millions and millions of people listening and talk for three hours without phone calls. You know, phone calls are easy. Hey, what do you think of this? What do you just talk? Talk and everybody finds it fascinating and it is fascinating. I wish I had time to listen more often. It's a little tough as president, but everybody finds it fascinating. And we gave Rush because he's such an important person and done such an incredible job.

The Presidential Medal of Freedom in Congo. And catbird's life is great. What a couple, what a great but a rush has been unbelievable. He's so on our side and he was from literally day one right from the beginning.

So that was that was just two minutes. And that's in Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Saturday night. I have no idea that that that was coming. And I don't know what what inspired it. I don't know if it was on the prompter or if they just put my name on the prompter. And that was the signal for him to go riffing on it. But thank you, Mr. President. That's that's that's that's that was that was great. Folks, I'm going to this guy is one of the funniest.

I'm going to I'm going to try to do it just as he told a story.

From last week, this is not in I think it was Saturday night rally maybe, but might have been the Friday night rally in Minnesota, I'm not sure which, but he was recounting what he had done when he learned that he had been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He said he went home. He got up to the residence in the White House and he walked in. The first lady. First Lady, are you here? First, we got to turn on the TV.

First Lady. I have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. He referred to it as the first lady, and so the first lady came out, we turned on the TV, we watched the first story and it didn't talk about the second story. And the first lady we're going to get mentioned there. I have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. First lady. Third story comes no mention. We finally we watched the whole newscast, not one time where we mentioned first lady, 12 stories that we got to the end of, got the 12 stories of first lady.

It looks like we're not going to get mentioned here. And I'm sitting here. I'm laughing myself silly because we know that he does not.

Well, I don't he may call our first lady in in person and lighthearted banter like this, but it's just folks, it is a natural gift, a natural born talent and skill that Donald Trump has this ability to improv the way he does at these rallies to seamlessly shift and switch between the teleprompter and not the off prompter or the improv or ad lib, whatever you would want to call it seamlessly.

And the teleprompter operator has to be up to speed on this to the prompter operator has got to know when he gets back on text and has got to be paying very close attention when he abandons the prompter, has to get it where it's next going to be for when the president comes back to it. All of this happens, I'm sure, without rehearsals, and I'm sure it happens seamlessly. But it's a rare talent. And you will recall if you were here twenty, fifteen, twenty sixteen, when these rallies all started, it was these rallies in part that led me to believe that he was very capable that he might win, he could win this thing.

It wasn't the sole basis by any stretch. But I was convinced early on. And then a couple of weeks after the escalator appearance on June 15th of twenty fifteen, when the first polls came out and they showed massive upward movement for Trump, I said, whoa, this we're we're at the beginning of something historic that most people in Washington are going to miss because they don't think it's possible.

They don't even think Trump is serious. They're going to miss this. And they did. They missed it for two years now. They've missed it for six. Honestly, folks, they have missed Trump for six years. They have still at this moment in time.

I have no clue who Trump is, how Trump does it, how he's going to do it again on November 3rd, they've got themselves convinced already that Biden is the winner, that Trump is the loser. They're backing it up with polling data, but they're going to be wrong again. And their arrogance and condescension is. Leading the way. Let me take a brief break here, we'll do that and come back and resume and all the rest of the exciting big program right after this.

Talent on loan. And it is on loan from God.

Well, that's right, it's not transferable. I can't send the talent anybody else. Lord knows those kinds of things have been tried here. Red Red's in Kansas City, Missouri. Great to have you on the big program, Red. Hello.

Hey, Rush, love. You have been listening to you for decades. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Absolutely. I wanted to emphasize the point that the Constitution established a balance of powers, the checks system of checks and balances. And in that system of checks and balances, it gives the Senate the ability to approve or disapprove of the president's pick for the Supreme Court in 2016. The Republicans were doing their duty by saying Obama's not going to pick a person who is good for this nation, who is a good constitutional constitutionalist to be on the Supreme Court.

So we're not going to we're not going to approve them. And we already had the evidence of that by his previous picks. Now, in 2020, they're saying it is our duty, but that's all right.

Callers can say whatever. I'm the one where standards of decorum apply. Gotcha. Well, they're just doing their responsibilities, their duties that are established in the Constitution and their duty to the American people. So I I think that all of these points made by the liberals right now are completely intellectually disingenuous.

Of course, they are not only politically, intellectually disingenuous, disingenuous, they are purely political in scope. Not constitutional, not judicial or any of that. My my buddy, Andy McCarthy, who was one of the most eminent legal minds that I know, points out that there are only two rules that apply here.

Only two, only two rules that apply to replacing a Supreme Court justice, quote, a president for as long as he or she is president has the power to nominate a person to fill a Supreme Court seat.

And that nominee, I'm quoting McCarthy here in that constitution, that nominee. Can fill the seat only with the advice and the consent of the Senate, and that's it. Everything else is political posturing. Everything else is politics. There's only two rules president gets to nominate, Senate gets to advise and consent, and that can be something as simple as a vote. You do not have to have the Judiciary Committee conduct hearings. That's only a tradition that evolved.

And it has something that's been something that's taken place. But it is not required. It's not mandate. It really isn't, folks.

The Senate does not get to pick their own nominee. Which is what Chuck Schumer and the rest of the Democrats want you to think, they want you to think the president doesn't mean the idea what he's doing, he doesn't get a choice in the matter. Only the Democrats get to choose and they don't.

All the rest of this is nothing more than political posturing. There is precedent in addition to this precedent supports what McCarthy said, the precedent was called the McConnell rule, and that was during the Merrick Garland controversy and it said you don't have a nomination in the final year of a presidency if the Senate is held by the opposing party. And that's been largely true since 1880 and especially true since the court has become more political over the years. But there's nothing that says that Trump can't nominate a replacement and there's nothing that says the Senate cannot vote.

Now, folks, you got it. I know the tendency is to believe the media on these things because our society is is just overburdened with this false notion of fairness. And there's nothing fairness about this. There's this purely procedural. The president has the constitutional duty to name a replacement. The Senate gets to advise and consent, and that could be nothing more than a vote. They consent by voting yes or they don't consent by turning down the nominee, but they don't get three weeks to trash the guy unless they're given it, but they're not required.

So. There's no reason to wait. There is literally no reason to wait. There's no requirement to wait, the 2020 election has nothing to do with this Supreme Court vacancy.

The 2016 election has everything to do with it.

And by the way, it's also not Justice Ginsburg seat. To make pronouncement just OK, her dying wish is that her seat not be filled until after the next. It's not her seat like Kennedy's seat in the Senate was not his seat.

It is our seat. Have you heard the latest Plug's Biden gaffe? Biden claimed that two hundred million Americans will die of covid-19 by the time he finishes the speech that he was giving at the time. He issued a stark warning to Americans saying that, quote, 200 million people will die of covid-19 by the end of his short speech was in Philadelphia on Sunday. Plug's was hammering Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. One of his statements stood out from the rest of the speech, quote, It's estimated that two hundred million people will die probably by the time I finish this talk.

It was likely confusing one hundred ninety nine thousand with two hundred million. Says here that this is going to what the website as art, I'm sure what it is, but it might be the Russian thing. But they says here Biden was likely trying to talk about the one hundred ninety nine thousand Americans who've died. However, conservative commentators saw his flub as further evidence. The former vice president isn't all there mentally. See, so it's always the Republicans with plugs that go out and say something totally ridiculous that does indicate it's not all clicking there, that the elevator to go in the top floor that plugs is in order.

Fries short of it happened.

Whatever it is, it's always the Republicans fault. Two hundred million Americans will die. Harry Reid dumped the Senate rule for 60 votes to close debate to fill judicial vacancies. Harry Reid ended the filibuster for judicial nominees, which is why we even have a discussable issue here. Harry Reid made it possible for Donald Trump or any Republican president to appoint justices with a simple majority. And we talked about this earlier. Harry Reid did this. Because he thought the Democrats were going to win and keep the Senate interminably in the future.

Except they lost the Senate 2014, 2016, 2018, which was the last election there by Republicans running the Senate, means Trump can pick anybody and they only need a simple majority, which, as I said earlier, if Murkowski and Collins decide to abstain, they can vote present and express their disagreement with the process, but not vote against the nominee. If they did that and it's Wikler possible, then all the Republicans would need was 48 votes in the Senate to confirm, not one.

So Harry Reid, we're talking about political competence here, right, and the theory is that it's the Democrats, the Democrats are the ones we need to entrust our country to because they're the ones that have the political Know-How and the political wherewithal. These are the people who are best capable of representing America as they understand the political system. Right. So here's Harry Reid blowing it for the Democrats forever. Then Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She should have retired when Obama was president, thereby allowing him to pick somebody, it's going to be on that court in another 30 to 40 years.

But she didn't. She didn't have any idea that Donald Trump is going to win. Nobody did. It was not possible.

So now Trump won. He gets to pick her replacement. And then the third thing, the Democrats have nominated somebody with dementia. And that would be Joe Biden, so Harry Reid blowing it, Ruth Bader Ginsburg making a wrong bet. The Democrats have nominated a guy with dementia. Now the Democrats are what else? They're rioting. They are looting. They are burning down their own and our cities. Cities in states and cities they control. Democrats say that if the Republicans follow the Constitution, they're going to burn down the country.

I've got the tweets, the Democrats are tweeting, they're going to burn it all down and they are not going to save anything.

Now, obviously, we have to allow for some fevered emotional overreaction here, but they're already demonstrating that they are more than capable of burning down businesses and other people's property.

So it's not an idle threat. The Democrat Party is a destructive, hateful, selfish political party, and they do not deserve to be anywhere near the levers of power as. Currently constituted, here's Cathy in Waterford, Michigan. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.

Hi, Ross. Love you. Pray for you and our president and your family. Thank you very much. I appreciate that all bets should be off as far as what senators have said and the ones who say they're not going to vote after what they put us through with Kavanaugh, this whole country through. It's a disgrace for those who are not going to vote.

I think. I think that's exactly it, folks, after what the Democrats put this country through. There is no way they should be offered any semblance of deference. I'm not saying that this this whole thing doesn't need to happen fairly or with fairness, but we don't need to defer to these people's wishes or demands. They attempted to destroy not just the nomination. They tried to destroy the nominee's life.

His character. His future, his family, they spared nothing as they attempted with a series of lies stacked on other lies, they attempted to literally destroy Brett Kavanaugh. There is no way they are owed any deference whatsoever. There is no way they are they are owed anybody listening to any of their demands and by the by virtue of what they tried canthe here has a point. There is no way Murkowski and Collins ought to be against any of this after what the Democrats pulled.

Why in the world do they want to be seen as siding with the Democrats after the Democrats attempt to bastardize this process? With Brett Kavanaugh, it is. To me, it's the most basic and simple point out there after the way the Democrats behaved and after the.

Really unprofessional. And harmful things that they did to try to ruin Cavanaugh. There is no way any Republican. Ought to be against Trump replacing Ruth Bader Ginsburg and before the election. Well, whatever they think of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has never done to anybody what that party did and tried to do to Brett Kavanaugh and his wife and his kids and his family and his friends and his career, his resume and his future, they were attempting to make sure if they had succeeded, Kavanaugh would have had to leave the court that he was on.

I mean, you couldn't have a picture of somebody more unqualified, somebody more unjust, sitting on a court, a sexual pervert, the way they characterized this guy.

And none of it was true. Instead, the people that perpetrated this or that have been brought up on charges like Christine Ballsy Ford. The people that tried this ought to have paid some price because they went way beyond the bounds of politics on this. Every Republican ought to still be so ticked off, remember how ticked off Lindsey Graham was that one day he ought to still be? As mad as every Republican, no matter what, they give them even one scintilla of attention in this.

They haven't earned it and they don't deserve it, and the Constitution does not require that they be listened to. They are in the minority, they lost the 2016 election, they do not get to pick Supreme Court nominees. Ruth Bader Ginsburg does not get to name her replacement. She does not get to play a role in it. Unless the president wants to grant that, but constitutionally she's got nothing to say about it, it isn't her seat. It's not complicated, folks.

The Democrats lost the presidency in 2016. We have a Supreme Court vacancy, the president's Donald Trump, he gets to pick the replacement. But Rush, but Rush, it's an election year. The election's only two months away, doesn't matter. It does not matter. We have a Supreme Court vacancy. The president is empowered by the Constitution to name the replacement the Senate and say yes or no, that's it. If the Republicans want to put their foot down on this, that's all this is, there is no more there's no requirement for hearings.

There is no requirement for endless debate. There is no requirement that Democrats be allowed to call the FBI and do a prolonged investigation, whoever the nominee is. As I say, they're owed no deference whatsoever. We'll be right back. Don't go away.

I want to illustrate for you just how badly Ruth Bader Ginsburg misjudged all of this. She made a very bad bet back in twenty sixteen.

Justice Ginsburg was saying early and often that a president is elected for four years. I remember at the time she's talking about Donald Trump. It's 2016. She's not talking about Barack Hussein.

Oh, well, actually, she could have been talking about Barack Hussein because two 16 and Trump wasn't inaugurated in twenty seventeen. She said there's nothing in the Constitution that says, oh, she was talking about Obama because of Merrick Garland, she said there's nothing in the Constitution that says a president can't nominate somebody in an election year.

Oh, yeah, Merrick Garland. Remember that. Now, McConnell said, well, we're not going to move Merrick Garland forward because this is your last year of your presidency. We're going to have a potentially new party next year. Screw you. Democrats had a fit. In New York Times in 2016, as Ginsburg, if the Senate had an obligation to assess Judge Garland's qualifications, she said, well, that's their job. She said there's nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year.

So. While she's talking about. Obama here, she's also making the point about Trump. And the point is that elections have consequences. There's nothing in the Constitution that says a president can't nominate somebody in an election year 2016, New York Times asked Ginsburg if the Senate had an obligation to assess Merrick Garland qualifications. She said that's their job. He said there is nothing in the Constitution that says the president stops being president in his last year. And yet we're told that on her deathbed she dictated this message that her fervent wish would be that she not be replaced until the next president had been elected.

Her fervent desire and so forth. What have you.

Anyway, Carolyn in Virginia Beach, Virginia, you are next. And welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.

Hey, Rush. Mega dittos and mega prayers sent to you. Thank you. I was wondering all weekend, why do we worry about Murkowski and Collins?

You know, I have to tell you something. I thought that your call was about this. I saw up there on my cheat sheet that you were going to say this and I started slapping because you're damn, you're exactly right. Why don't we give a rat's rehren what they're going to do? And I'll tell you the answer to it is we shouldn't care about the media throws them up at us. The media throws Collins and Murkowski up on us on every being, a government shutdown, a piece of legislation or this simply because they're trying to pressure other Republicans into following the lead of these two women.

Right. And then you were saying that Feinstein intimidated Murkowski. And I'm thinking, why are we talking about Feinstein connection with China and Biden's connection with China? You want to talk about intimidating people like, well, why are we not talking about, you know, what we are?

We've Trump has done everything he can. They tried to impeach him over talking about Biden and his son and Ukraine and they tried to impeach him over it. And Trump constantly talks about Hunter, Biden and China and his rallies. So when you say, why aren't we talking about it? Trump is, the Republican Party isn't.

And I suspect the reason why they don't like Dianne Feinstein to try to look, he had a driver, her chauffeur for 20 years, was a child, comes by. Her husband has beaucoup business dealings in China. The Feinstein family heard her husband's name is Bluhm. Richard Bloom, I don't know that she's taken his name or not, Diane Feinstein, Bloom, whatever, they are wealthy thanks to the Chinese government like you can't believe. But how many other senators have strange connections Biden does?

And so it's probably because they don't want to dump on each other, they protect each other in the Senate.

But Trump has not stopped talking about Trump tries to get everybody to understand the relationship between Biden and the Trichomes and Biden and Ukraine, and they tried to impeach him over it. But, you know, your question is actually right on the money. Why do we care what Murkowski and Collins say or do they don't vote Republican on most important issues. And you're exactly right. And it's a great it's an object lesson. It's a lesson the media hypes them, the media hypes Murkowski, and it's how these women get their name in the news.

It's how they get a claim by going against their own party. Of course, the media is going to make heroines out of them, and they do. So these women have every reason in the world to continue to oppose their own party and president. Except in an election year, it's proving somewhat dangerous for Senator Collins, but. The media constant doesn't matter who the Republican is, Mitt Romney, John McCain, if any Republican comes out opposing the Republican Party or Endor conservatism, the media immediately makes them heroes.

I guess the reason that some people react to it is because it's so close, their votes would be very helpful if they could be on the team, but they never are on things that actually seem to matter.

Collins, though, has had her moments. But we have to take a break, do that. Be right back. Here's another reason why we need this replacement to we don't we don't want a Supreme Court with eight justices, that means. And the current makeup, that means a four four vote on matters that do need a decision that won't fly. That won't work. And not to help with either. The Democrats agree with that or not. I'm just telling you, there's just more evidence why we need to fill this seat ASAP.

And we will do that. We'll be back. We'll continue in mere moments.

Hi, folks. Welcome back. Fastest three hours in the media underway, evidenced by the fact that we're already in the three hour the third hour now.

It's just racing by. It's great to have you with us, as always. Telephone number, if you want to be on the program is eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. The email address, Rusciano and EIB that not us. I've had a number of people tell me over the course of the past couple, three years that they have to be very careful around their grand kids and their own kids, but primarily depending on the age, their own kids.

You've got people who are sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy years old, and they've got kids that are thirty, thirty five, whatever.

And the kids are millennials and they've and they've, they've been they've been sort of swallowed up by a whole bunch of liberalism.

Or maybe just a little bit of it. They've been they've been touched by fairness, the liberal notion of equality and sameness and so forth.

But bottom line is, they are not the conservatives, their parents are as such, they have to be very careful about.

What they say they believe around their own kids, if they want to see the grandkids, I have had more.

People tell me that their own kids are denying them visitation rights with their grandkids if they like Trump and I was reminded of this when a story that.

Runs recently in a publication called Medium. The headline today, I gave my dad a choice, Trump or His Grandkids and his son by Leo Gwynneth.

And today I found out my dad put a Trump sign in his yard and I got ticked off. Except he didn't say ticked off. He said the word I still won't say in public on this radio program. I hear a lot of people use the P word. I hear a lot of people using it, but I for some reason have not succumbed yet. But this guy, Leo Gwenyth, said today I found out my dad put a Trump sign on his heart.

I got really I got really pissed off. I mean, really pissed off. And I sent him and my mother a text. And this is what it said. Due to the signs in the yard, the kids and I will not be down. The current occupant of the White House is preaching hate and violence, endangering the lives and safety of many of my friends. This is not acceptable to me at all. There is a complete disregard for women, for minorities.

There is a complete disregard for science, for ethics and morality. Please consider if you support Trump that much, because I hate him that much, I wanted to be upfront and honest about my feelings.

At this point, it's not acceptable to me, you can vote for whom you wish, but I can choose whom I surround myself with. I love my dad, but I can't be around him until he understands how vital I believe this election to be and what is truly at stake. It isn't easy, but it was necessary now to see what fallout occurs. That's everything there was written by this Leo Gwynn in person. But the first part was the actual quotes from his text.

So this is what this is emotional blackmail and the left is using it on their own parents. We have been talking about this for quite a while, people threatened to cut other people off from their grandkids if they continue to support Trump. I've had to look the same thing. If you're if you're going to turn that radio on to Limbaugh, then then then I'm not bringing the grandkids on you. You're not going I'm not going to have them listening.

I'm just not going to happen. And you get the same reason. Well, he's a bigot. He's a racist, a homophobe, anti science and all that. Now, let's let's go through these things that this guy, Leo Glenanne, professes to believe. He thinks that Trump. Preaches hate and violence. Meanwhile. The hate and violence. That is roiling this country is happening in Democrat cities and in Democrat states, and the hate is being articulated and acted out by the left wing liberal Democrats proudly.

Black Lives Matter is proudly engaging in hate. So is Antifa, they are engaging in violence, they are destroying other people's private property. They are burning down other people's property.

They are burning down government property, they are looting and stealing, taking things which do not belong to them. There's not one shred of that that's been encouraged or advocated for by Donald Trump. Donald Trump has asked these governors and mayors. One thing, ask me for some help, I can't come in and stop this until you ask for it and they may refuse. So these Democrat governors and mayors permit this hatred and this violence.

To continue. With nobody stopping it, these are the people seeking to take money away from the cops, it's not Donald Trump supporters who are walking up to a sheriff's vehicle with two sheriffs in Compton, California, and shooting them in the face point blank range. Those are Joe Biden supporters.

Those are supposedly lovable, fillable, touchable, really soft and concerned and compassionate liberals doing all of that. Mr. Gwinn in. Donald Trump is not responsible for any of the violence and hatred that's happening out there. He's speaking out against it. But in these people's world, Trump is responsible for it because he says things they don't agree with, and since he says things they don't agree with, they are entitled to violence. They are entitled to their hate because he's Mr.

Orangeman. It is a perverted, convoluted world in which they live and it's got to break their parents heart because their parents don't know how to approach these kids. Obviously. Trump is preaching hate and violence, endangering the lives and safety of many of your friends, your lives and the lives of your friends are not being endangered by Donald Trump because of the words of the others, in the words, the others are not pro violence. I'll bet you believe that.

Trump said there aren't good Nazis. I'll bet you believe this triple. You believe every lie and distortion your precious media is ramming down your precious, lovable little millennial throat. But none of it is true, not one thing you believe about Donald Trump is true, Donald Trump is not anti science. What Donald Trump's against is the politicization of science, which is exactly what the theory of man made climate change is. The minute. You young whippersnappers have to run around and start talking about the consensus of scientists means that there isn't any science at all involved.

Sorry to be redundant on this, folks, but. This stuff, you must get mad. This stuff makes me mad as hell. This ignorance, this sophistry of this and and the accompanying arrogance, these people think that they're the smartest ones in the room. They think they're the only ones that get it. They have no idea how Donald Trump is trying to improve their lives and the lives of every other American. They haven't the slightest clue how Donald Trump is literally trying to save them.

From the wanton destruction of this country by virtue of its re transformation is something that was never founded to be.

They probably think Black Lives Matter is a compassionate civil rights organization when it's not, that's the last thing Black Lives Matter cares about.

There's a complete disregard for women, for minorities, for science, ethics, morality. That's just embarrassingly naive. But it is a almost a word for word regurgitation of the crap and the garbage that is uttered daily by Democrats and the media, which is redundant, what disregard for women? There are more women in positions of power in the Trump administration than in any Democratic administration there's ever been. It's not even close. Mr. Gwinn in. Did all minorities and by the way, speaking of that, there's a lot of panic out there on the left because Trump is kicking butt.

When it comes to the African-American vote, I've got this little tweet here from Paul Watch. We are now considering that Trump could get more than 15 percent of the black vote. Both the Democracy Institute and Emerson. The polling unit showed Trump getting 19 percent of the vote, Rassmussen showing Trump at twenty two percent of the vote, another outfit, Barris says that Trump can get 20 percent of the black vote in Pennsylvania.

So, Paul, Watch says we may have to up our estimate of 11 percent to 15 percent. African-American unemployment prior to covid-19 was an all time low. Mr. Glenanne. Hispanic unemployment prior to covid-19 was an all time low, Mr. Gwent in. Complete disregard for women, minorities, science and ethics. Morality. Mr. Gwynneth, do you not see what's happening on your own side of the aisle? Do you not see the wanton destruction of private property? Do you not see the wanton attempted murder?

Of police officers that it's happening on your side of the aisle. Do you not know what the objective of man made climate change really is, Mr. Gwenn? Do you know that the rolling blackouts in California, the rolling blackouts, the reason why people have to turn off their power or have it turned off for them or to have to unplug their toasters for crying out loud, is because California has bought into your precious climate change argument and they've gotten rid of megatons and megatons of power created by fossil fuels.

And they just isn't enough to satisfy demand yet. Mr. Quinn and we in Florida have an even bigger demand. For almost the entire year on running our air conditioners and we never have blackouts, we have power plants run by fossil fuels, we never have blackouts unless a tornado or hurricane comes through. We never have government mandated blackouts because our elected officials have done stupid things like try to power the state with stupid ass windmills and solar panels. You're just doing dumb, stupid things, you're investing and believing in dumb, stupid things which are demonstrably provable as dumb and stupid, but nobody's got the guts.

To say them to you, because for some reason, they're scared to death, oh, I forget you're going to you're going to deny your parents. Their chance to see their grandkids adds, I forgot all because of your own ignorance, Mr. Gwenn. And here you openly admit your hate for Donald Trump. While accusing him. Of preaching hate and violence.

Something he does the exact opposite every day, if you had the ability, Mr. Glenanne, to actually be introspective and examine yourself, you'd be so embarrassed that you'd ask people for forgiveness and a chance to start over. You're just blind and it's the hatred that's poisoned you into blindness. Now you take it out on your parents. Boy, that's really gutsy, Mr. Quinn. And that is really, really.

Gutsy and all of you other millennials who want to hold your parents emotionally hostage. To your own ignorance, I'm not saying stupidity, although you may be, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt. I think you're just ignorant, like you're believing the garbage, the flat out Riverrun.

Then you listen to every day thinking into the news. All right, so I just checked the email and I got a slew of them in there. I picked one that is the most representative. Are you ready, dear Mr. Limbaugh?

These kids you're talking about are like mine, just like mine, Mr. Gwyn's kid, or Mr. Gwenn, the kid, he's just like my kids. They really, really want your listeners, folks. They really, really believe that the violence in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, wherever it's happening, is being done by white supremacists and that Donald Trump is leading them. They think it's all Kuhnen and other fringe groups. So the white the violence in Portland and Seattle is being done by Black Lives Matter, and they put out there in front of them these white millennial college age women, still that it looks like a bunch of white people are doing the protesting.

And the people who are the targets of this thing are buying it. They think the violence is being done by white supremacists and that Donald Trump leads them. They think it's all Kuhnen and other fringe groups, when we know Black Lives Matter is doing this, Antifa is doing this, they hate Trump.

There's nothing at all related to or associated with Donald Trump about any of this destruction. It's all being sponsored, promoted and allowed by the Democrat Party. And these kids don't even know it. My kids also believe that blacks are totally justified protesting all of this. It's OK to be mad and break windows because of systematic racism out there. So, Mr. Limbaugh, I can't talk about this with my daughter. I can't even bring it up. If my daughter were to ever find out that I listened to you, I would be in hot water you don't even want to know about.

So I can't talk about it with her, because if I do. I risk losing my daughter and. The grandchildren, because I am convinced that my daughter would not let me see them. And for what, Mr. Limbaugh, a political point, I am not going to run the risk of losing contact with my grandchildren over a political point.

OK. This is not worth it, not worth losing my daughter and grandchildren and for a political point, that these people, they will sure yell at Trump if he doesn't get something right or they'll yell at each other or whatever.

It's interesting how this emotional blackmail. Works half my brain tied behind my back, as always, folks, because we like to be fair here on the EIB Network. Let's get back to the phones. A lot of people here who have been waiting patiently. This is Jay in Pine, Colorado.

Great to have you, Mr. Limbaugh. Megadose. We pray for you and Katherine and your health and hope you live long life together. Oh, thank you.

Thank you very much. We both appreciate that more than you know.

I just have one quick comment. And that's on war and Lobster's. And water and lobsters. OK, let's see. This is Jeopardy, right? Down, down, down, down. What's the question? What's the question? What is Donald Trump done to to support things that a Democrat party is opposed? Exactly.

I can't understand why Mr. Senator Murkowski would oppose him after there's been so many presidents promising to open up ANWR and Trump does it.

Well, see, you're looking at this with common sense, and that's an ingredient here that may not be all that represented.

It may well, I don't think she cares about her constituency because she's really not up for election. But Miss Collins, her I do not understand totally. I mean, here he's opened up thousands of miles of fishing territory and got rid of the tariffs on lobster imports to Europe, which has got to be making the fishing industry in Maine very happy. And so I think she definitely does not have a clear conscience of what her constituency is yet.

Well, you know, the makeup of the electorate in Maine is, as I understand it, it's one third Republican, it's one third Democrat and one third independent. That's OK. And she's a she's a Republican. So going in at best, she starts out with it at least 30, a third of the electorate. And she's got to go out and find the balance of her support among people not in her party.

Yeah, but using that same concept, your fishermen are one third, one third and one third.

OK, got a point you've got to put. I'm not I'm just I'm you know, I don't know. Susan Collins will surprise you sometimes. Like, she was a she stood fast on Cavanough like you can't. But she was unaffected by any of the things that ballsy Ford and Feinstein, the rest of the Democrats did to try to disqualify Kavanaugh and her reason. The speech that she gave, the remarks that she gave in support of Kavanaugh were all judicial, every one of them.

And she did the same thing when when Gorsuch was was up. So she but here's she didn't hold any of what the Democrats did against them.

And that's really what you're I think recognizing here is that the opposition with Susan Collins is allowed to go all over the place, be extreme, untrue, make them engage in character assassination.

And that is not something that has any impact on her.

Bottom line is that in both of these women's cases, they are they're given a pass under the guise that they are independent.

So the media is going to automatically love them because they will not automatically.

Be counted as check the box for the Republican nominee or check the box for the Republican piece of legislation or check the box for it for anything else so they the media highlights their open minded. These are responsible women. These are senators and and women who are not under the spell of love. Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are very independent. Obviously, they fit the bill. They go against the Republicans are automatically loved and adored. I mean, you know, that is as well as I do.

I don't have any answer for you in terms of why, you know, they they are reluctant to credit Trump for any of the things he's done that would benefit them. I think you just go in and you have to you look at both of them as votes that we have to overcome. And then you maybe you appeal to them to vote present. As opposed to voting no, don't vote on the nominee, just say you're there, but vote against the process, vote against the fact that you're voting.

You don't want to have to vote before the presidential election. OK, then abstain, but don't vote against the nominee. You've got nothing against the nominee. Whoever the nominee is going to be, it's going to be a very qualified woman. Nobody is going to have a problem, and whoever is nominated is going to have been vetted, whoever is nominated is going to have to have been through with the confirmation process with the Senate Judiciary Committee at some point in her career.

Whether it's Amy, CONI Barrett or anyone, there's another name out here that is getting a lot of attention and that woman's name is Barbara Lagoa and I don't know if I'm pronouncing this right, could be Wagle.

She's from Florida. She's a Cuban and Cuban roots, and she is one of two women. It is said that President Trump is closely considering. Barbara Lagoa or Lagoa, I'm not sure again how it's pronounced, is described as a trailblazer for women and Latinos.

Florida native, first Hispanic woman to serve on the Florida Supreme Court, if nominated, she would be the second Latino justice to ever serve. Sonia Sotomayor is the first. She would be the fifth woman to serve, she has been vetted. Trump nominated her to serve on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2019. She was confirmed by the Senate in a bipartisan vote which would help ease her path to the Supreme Court if she is selected by the president again.

She's 52. That's that's young. She would be the youngest justice on the court. And a lot of people are suggesting she might be because of timing. The preferred pick with Amy Connie Barrett to come later. Amy, Connie Barrett is a very devout Catholic. Seven children, five children to foster kids, and the target that she presents is a Catholic.

Is a little bit bigger than the target Lagoa presents, I mean, can you can you see the Democrats in the media? For two weeks trashing an Hispanic woman, and the answer, of course, is yes. But it might be something Trump wants to see. They went out, they trashed Miguel Estrada. He was one of George W. Bush's closest buddies, good friend. He was attorney general or nominated to be attorney general. They destroyed him. And to this day, Miguel Estrada will not criticize them.

He will not rip into them. But if the Democrats need to put an Hispanic in the crosshairs and set out to destroy them, they will do it even if it's an Hispanic woman. They'll just call her something, a white Hispanic, the second white Hispanic, the first one would be George Zimmerman. This woman graduated Columbia Law School. She worked as a pro bono lawyer for Elian Gonzalez family. Remember who he is? Elian Gonzalez is the six year old kid whose mother died on the way to Florida from Havana.

She died out there in the ocean, but Elian survived. You remember it was Janet Reno. Who then flew down to Florida was a big target and fight over where Elian would spend his young life and Bill Clinton and what's your face? Janet Reno was not a kid. Needs to be with his father. Who was in Cuba? And so the left, yes, the boy needs to be with his father much better growing up a young communist and future Democrat than to be stuck with this right wing family in South Florida.

So eventually, Janet Reno flew down there with a bunch of federal agents and these federal agents were decked out like they expected to be retaliated against with nuclear weapons. And they walked in this little house, they stormed in there and they stole little Elian out of there and they put him on the plane with Janet Reno, who then flew him down to Miami, then got on an airplane, put him into Havana. He was met there by Fidel Castro. They even they even brought Elian Gonzalez dad up to Florida from Cuba and Castro.

I'll never forget this. Castro is on TV. Attempting to say great things about Elian Gonzalez's father, his father's name was one fact, Gonzalez, what Gonzalez father of Elian Gonzalez and Juan Gonzalez, according to Castro, was a good worker, a good worker, and that's why. His son, Elian Gonzalez, should be returned to him because he's a good worker, which is all anybody is in.

You are a worker. Good. Bad half assed, whatever. You are at work real work without a good worker anyway. Janet Reno made it all possible. So young Gonzalez goes back home and now Elian Gonzalez is 25 years old, some a good communist now. They put him in the party. And so this woman, Barbara Lagoa, worked as a pro bono lawyer for his family. To the south Florida family attempting to keep him in south Florida.

She worked as a federal prosecutor. She then spent more than 10 years as a judge on a Florida appeals court before being picked by Governor de Santos to serve on the state Supreme Court. She's married to a man in. Name Paul Huc Jr. He's also an attorney, they have they have three daughters, so that's that's one of the two front runner.

Let's take a break. We'll do that. We'll be back after this. Don't go away. Right back to the phones we go. This is Donald in Savannah, Georgia. It's great. I'm glad you waited. Sure. You're up next on the EIB Network.

Oh, gosh. Mega dittos and mega. First to you, Ross. Well, thank you, sir. Thank you very, very much. My comment is that this this Supreme Court nomination is even more important than I think you've said so far, and I know I know you think it's important, but. The Democrats are going to do everything they can to stop the election of Trump and there could be lawsuits involved, and if this goes to the Supreme Court, we could have a four four tie.

And I don't think that would bode well for for Trump's chances of being reelected. So that's that's my comment. And I will hang up and listen.

OK, I'm glad I'm glad you called it Donald. I'm I'm sure that while you're on hold, you don't get to listen to everything.

But I think I made that point about an hour ago, that if there is no replacement for Justice Ginsburg, then we face a four four Supreme Court. And that's no good on matters that need a solution, that need a resolution, that need a decision. And certainly the next president, the election and so forth is something that's going to need a resolution. And the conventional wisdom is that this election is going to get to the Supreme Court because they're going to be mail in ballots, because they're going to be absentee ballots, because they're going to be things like hanging chads that existed in 2000 in Florida, maybe not hanging chads, but the Democrats are going to sue over everything when they lose.

They're even predicting they're predicting election night, landslide win for Trump, but then when they're fraudulent votes, but when they're paper votes are counted, that's when they claim they're going to win in a landslide. But they're going to need this affirmed and that would need to be in the in the Supreme Court and notice that everybody thinks that an eight person Supreme Court's going to come down to the four libs versus four conservatives.

And it may. Well, how the hell is that judicial? It isn't political anyway, I appreciate the call, Donald, this is Colleen, Pearl River, Louisiana. Great to have you on the program. Hello.

Thank you. It's an honor to speak to you. Thank you. Thanks very much. I'm calling about the grandfather who was afraid to say what he thinks in front of his children. Yes. And I think that's a big mistake. I mean I mean, I don't know his situation, but he's being bullied. And just like Drew, he doesn't you know, he stands up to the bully. Just tell them this is what you think. If they, you know, threatened with taking the grandchildren away, well, the grandchildren are going to be affected by that.

They're going to say, why can't we see grandpa that we love? And that will reflect on the parents and their attitudes, that will be a big message to the grandchildren. Yeah, stand up to that kind of tyranny.

So you we can't think the grand grandkids would be negatively impacted by not being able to see grandpa and grandma, especially when they're told you can't see them because they like Donald Trump. They like Mr. Orangeman.

And what do you think a kid is going to think about that? I know, I don't know. I must profess total ignorance when it comes to what kids think about things.

Well, I've had a lot of, you know, contact with children in various ways, schools and Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.

The one thing I know that in this current in this current climate, there's not a single thing I could say, especially if I was right, that would help me at all about parents and their kids. So I'm just not going to touch it, because even if I were as right as I've been about anything, it would not be helpful to me.

As always, my friends, a great privilege to be able to be here with you. I woke up today and I again thanked God for it. Thank God that I did.

And we will be back here tomorrow. The same thing here.