The Rush Limbaugh Show Podcast - May 18 2020 - The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of The Rush Limbo Show podcast. Yes,
some America's anchor man is away and this is your
eib anchor Baby mark Stein. Thrilled and honored and privilege
to be here on America's number one radio show as

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we start another week of excellence in broadcasting. As don't
blame me. You know how this works. On a Monday,
I always say Rush can be back Tuesday, Rush can
be back Wednesday, and by Thursday he's not back, and
everybody hates me. I'm the most hated man in America.
Rush on Friday said there's a fifty fifty chance he's
going to be here on Wednesday. So Rush Rush has

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determined the parameters of his return this week. So Rush
says the fifty fifty chance he'll be here Wednesday. Ken
Matthews is going to be in tomorrow where guests hosts
and under the lockdown laws, where observing the actually distant
rules for guest hosting. So Ken Matthews is in Pennsylvania

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and Todd Hermann is in Seattle, and I'm in the
South Sandwich Island, so all socially distant from each other,
and I only make also in compliance with the socially
distant rules. I only make one good point every six feet.
The rest is just a big blank space, so you
may want to bear that in mind before we embark

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on the next three hours. Lovely to be here. I'm
wearing my mask. Of course, you've got to be masks.
If your sounds a little muffled if you're listening on FM,
that's because I've got my mask on. It's a doctor
Burke's scarf mask from her new fashion line, made in
a slave labor factory just behind the Wuhan Institute of
Viral Virology. But basically it's the manufacturing of Deborah Burke's

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scarfs that's now propping up what remains of the global economy.
It's a one hundredth birthday today. It's the centenary of
Pope John Paul the Second. I'm not Catholic, so I
think I can say that Pontiff wise, I prefer John
Paul the Second to the present Vicar of Christ. It's

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also Victoria Day in Canada, rather muted, as Canada is
looking at the worst recession since the Dominion of Canada
was founded in eighteen sixty seven. These are these Victor,
mister Surdle what said about what Victoria Day is? It's
Queen Victoria's birthday. Don't they have that down here? I
don't know, mister Snurdley, what what kind of what country

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doesn't celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday? But but Canada's got this
like catastrophic eighteenth worst recession since eighteen sixty seven. In
Britain they're saying it's the worst recession since the eighteenth century.
I don't I don't know what it is here, but
it's probably headed for the worst recession since the bottom

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dropped out of the bead selling to the Indians market.
We're looking at record breaking recessions in almost every place
on Earth. We're also looking at a big pushback against them.
Been a global protests. Not as many or as many
people participating as they would like, but thousands and thousands

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of people turned out, not just in America but in
Germany to protest this lockdown. President Obama spent the weekend
he gave a virtual commencement address. I mean, if there's
one thing more boring than a commencement address, it's a
virtual commencement address. And Obama's was well down to form,

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and he spent it bemoaning in large part how the
folks in charge, as he calls it, always beware Obama
when he uses the word folks. It's funny, it's like
a folksy touch. It's like, I'm a foreigner, so I'm
kind of sensitive to that that you say folks to
sound folksy, and people who aren't in the least bit folks.

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He shouldn't try saying the word folks because it sounds
totally fake, and it always does in the case of Obama.
But he basically attacked the folks in charge for doing
such a rotten job on the pandemic. And this is
we're going to be hearing this all the way to
November now because Obama has determined he Obama is going

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to be in full campaign mode like no other former
president all the way to November because he has to
drag Biden across the finish line in November so that
the whole Obama gate thing goes away. So basically, Obama
in these virtual commencement addresses and I don't know where,

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if you're like a grade school in Dead Moose Junction,
New Hampshire, book Obama for your virtual commencement address, and
he'll be available because he's going to be giving these
speeches about what a rotten job Trump is doing on
the virus as a way to deflect from what's been
coming out the last couple of weeks about all his

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unmasking of Flynn Anko, masking and unmasking. That's all there
is now in America. The Flynn's story is about unmasking.
The coronavirus is about masking, masking up until the end
of time called the new normal. But but I said
on this show, just on that Obama business, I said

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on this show, I think it's like over two years ago.
Now what happened was not foreign interference in the twenty
sixteen election, but domestic interference in the twenty sixteen election.
It's that simple. There's nothing the Russians did with their
Facebook ads or the Macedonian content farmers did that Hitler

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is always on about that compares to anything the outgoing
administration did to interfere in the twenty sixteen election. And
Obama has got a drag Biden across the finish line
in Nova to make all that stuff go away. Because
the Durham Report, they're all getting supposed to be getting excited.

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The Durham Reports coming any day now. They've been saying
that since like last summer. I think, well, the Durham
Report has got to come before November. Otherwise it's never
going to be released to the world because the minute.
If Joe Biden wins in November and his numbers are
excellent since he's been hiding in the basement, Susan's been
carrying in the basement since he ceased campaigning, Joe Biden's

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numbers have rocketed. So if he can just stay in
the basement for another six months, he may be home
and dry. But Obama needs to drag him across the
finish line in November to make what is going to
happen go away, and that is that there was minimal
foreign interference in the twenty sixteen election, but there was

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unprecedented domestic interference in the twenty sixteen election, most of
it personally directed by Obama himself. We're also going to
be following a couple of there's like a couple of
breaking news stories. There's this on the local scene. There's
been a standoff between a gym owner in New Jersey

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and the State of New Jersey. The State of New
Jersey promised to arrest him. In fact, he opened up
his gym and a bunch of state troopers then went inside,
looked around, saw that the ellipticals were sufficiently distanced from
each other, and decided for the moment not to arrest him.

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Is this can't go on much longer. It really can't.
What we have now is something. So I wrote a
book about which was published nine years ago called After America,
and Rush was very kind to promote it in the
Limball Letter and a couple of other things, and did
very well for me. It was a big, I think,

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top five bestseller, didn't quite make the number one spot.
It's always fun to get to number four. And in
there I mentioned that in the nineteen fifties, one in
twenty occupations required the permission of the government in the
form of licensing. By about by the time I wrote

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that book in twenty eleven, it was one in three.
That's extraordinary, you know. And I'm talking about all the
hairdressing permits and all the rest of it. We now
live in a land where every single occupation requires the
government's permission in order for you to leave the house
and go to work, and you cannot have a permanent emergency.

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You simply cannot even quite liberal societies don't want to
live under a situation of that tighter lockdown. So I
come into a crunch point at this. I would say
as well that one of the lessons of the last
few months is that none of the experts know anything.

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I see, for example, that there's a very interesting piece
in the British Spectator by Matt Ridley, who's a Conservative
member of the House of Lords. He's a fifth viscount
if you like your viscounts. But I'm getting back into
Victoria Day territory there, so I won't go there. But
Matt really had has this piece, and how if you
look at who's dying from this thing. Vitamin D is

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a big part of what protect you if you get
it and you're all right. A lot of it has
to do with something as basically as vitamin D, which
is like mainly sunlight. So it makes no sense to
confine millions and millions and millions of people inside inside
small apartments, inside condos for three months just at the

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very end of winter. People's vitamin D levels always lowest
in late February, when they're at the tail end of winter.
And they haven't seen any sun for three months, and
and it's supposed to be getting better with the spring.
And what happens with the spring is that we send
everyone indoors under lockdown. And it turns out that vitamin
D is as basic a protection against this coronavirus. I mean,

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it might not be true. It might be something else
next where. We don't know anything. And whatever the experts
said last month, Oh, you don't need to wear a mask.
Mask won't do anything for you. Oh now if you
go out and streach, you have to wear a mask.
It doesn't matter. The vitamin D thing might be deemed
to be rubbish next next week, but it doesn't matter. Now.
There has never been any precedent. There's in the entirety

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of human history, no one has confined as many people
to house arrest as the world's governments have done in
the last three months. And I'll say one other thing
on that before before we get to some of these
other breaking stories. There's as I look at that, I've

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looked at these graphs and these numbers every morning now
for since February, and I would make just one basic
point on that, no nation, no nation has a coronavirus crisis.
Generally speaking, cities and regions have a coronavirus crisis. New

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York that the metropolitan New York Area, for example, is
responsible for ten percent of all the cases on the planet,
all the deaths, ten percent of all the deaths on
the planet are in the New York metro area. So
there's great swathes of the planet that are locked down
for no reason at all. And I would I would

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urge people when they start talking about these things, it's
actually to break it down. So let's forget about nation
states unless you're really tiny like Singapore or Luxembourg. Look
at it, look at it across the world, and you'll
find that it's it is and regions that have a
coronavirus problem. And the coronavirus problem has obviously been at

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exacerbated by Andrew Cuomo sending COVID positive patients into nursing
homes and care homes. But if this were a if
this were a global phenomenon, ten percent of the deaths
would not have occurred in the New York metro region.

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We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk
about the latest developments in Obama Gate and Obama's decision
to deflect on that, and we're going to talk about
they've now come up with the governors are beginning to
agree on a reopening plan, a staggered reopening plan over
the next decade and a half, something like that. It's like,

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I love the way this reopening thing. It's like as
if the global economy someone just hung a sign on
the global economy door saying, gone to lunch in half
an hour, And it isn't like that at all. The
longer you leave it, when you actually reopened the door
and take off the back in half an hour sign,
you'll find that all the inventory has been looted and

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there's an MS thirteen gang living in the basement. That's
what's happening with every day we maintain this lockdown. Mark
sign in for Rush one eight hundred two eight two
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we look forward to taking plenty of your calls on
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Rush on America's number one radio show. Always an honor
to Bair fought for the day My old friend Boris Johnson,
the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, gave an interview
to The Sunday Times yesterday, and he said, quote, I've
learned that it's much easier to take He was asked

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what he'd learned from the last couple of months. He said,
I've learned that it's much easier to take people's freedoms
away than give them back. And all those little prime
ministerial entourage types, like the half dozen other creeps sitting
in the room all around Boris laughed at that that's
the situation. I've learned that it's much easier to take

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people's freedoms away than give them back. And on that
very subject, the governor of Washington State, Jay Insley, has
now backed down from his demand that restaurants keep a
log of everyone every customer in there, including so if

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you go in, you think, oh, why I wouldn't mind
some board sitting inside. I gather the restaurants are opening,
I wouldn't mind going out for a bit of meat loaf.
You go out for you a bit of meat loaf,
You're required to give your name, telephone number, email contacts
if you dine in Fred's Authentic Homestyle Country Kitchen restaurant.

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And Jay Insley has now back down on that what
do you. What I find disturbing about this is that
he only he only backs down after he's ordered it.
So the Corona Grope and Fura Insley has decided that
every restaurant will have to keep a log of all

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its customers that it submits to the government. And forty
eight hours seventy two hours a week goes by, and
people say, well, I don't know. That sounds a bit
odd to me. And it's only then that the governor
backs down. You think of this, the governor and all
these advisors in that room, in the governor of Washington,
and all these advisors are in the room thinking well,

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what are we going to do? I tell you what
we could do. Why don't we require restaurants to log
the names and contact information of every single diner and
then provide it to the government. Where where the hell
are we is? This is this occupied France under the Germans.
I don't go for the if you know me, I
don't go for these Nazi comparisons. But this they didn't

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actually do that. Inoccupied France you could go to when
the Germans were occupying Paris, you were still free to
go to a restaurant without having the restaurant to take
all the details of the diners and then supply it
to the German commandants running the city. Something has gone

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We're in If this is the new normal, this is
too abnormal. This is too abnormal. I'm beyond the virus
because we know nothing more about it than we did
three months ago. I'm beyond the lockdown because that's been
going on now for three months, and I'm thinking of
the world they're building for us, and I really am

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not terribly interested in living in this world. This is
just all I'm looking at this thing now. From another
panel of experts, because we all love the experts. This
is one convened by the National Association of Teachers of Singing,
and it says that without a vaccine, it will never
again be safe to have public singing. Because they looked

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at these situations where a choir, I think it was
in Oregon, huge numbers of that choir all singing, socially
distanced apart, and they all courted. There was another one,
I think in South Korea and one somewhere else. They're saying,
not only just the call singing, It'll never be safe
to have a church choir again. It'll never Colin Kaepernick,

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God bless him. He's leading the way because when people
start singing the national anthem, the safest thing you can
do is drop to one knee and get out of
the way of all that patriotic bellowing and saliva flying everywhere.
So it's never going to be safe to sing the
national anthem. It's never going to be safe to go
to a Barry Manilow concert where everyone see her name

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was Lola, she was a show girls. That is going
to be America's silent killer. Public singing, public singing. Do
you really want to live in a world where there's
no public singing? Rush on Friday was talking about how
you know, the new normal is the end to huge

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amounts of things. If they're serious about this, if they're
serious about the social distancing, if they're serious about the
twenty five percent capacity, then it's the end. It's the end.
For Rush mentioned, Rush mentioned Broadway Broadway and all the
Midtown restaurants that depend on Broadway are dead. They're over.

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If you ever go. If let's say you get tickets
to Hamilton on Broadway and you go there, it paid
a fortune for start. That's not profitable as much as
you pay. It's not profitable on twenty five percent capacity.
But second, have you ever been to the theater at
intermission and you go out into the lobby and look
at the line for the ladies bathroom, it's like snaking

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back even in a normal capacity, It's like it's like huge,
got two nineteenth century toilets. This is not doable. Hey,
great to be with you. Rush is out today, but
the man himself says, fifty fifty he'll be back Wednesday.
Always love being with you. It's a it's a real

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treat and it's a real privilege to me. The job
is actually getting getting harder because Rush Russia doesn't like
taking days often. You know why he's taking them off.
But when he is here, he's absolutely on fire, as
they say, and he's been on cracking form these last
couple of weeks, dealing with the many aspects of what

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is happening in our world. What is happening in our
world is is so weird. I think I think people
may wonder if there's like not another virus at play
there that has that there's something out there in the
world that has entirely deranged the leaders of Western nations
into into doing what they've done, and then to keep

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it going because the thing is ament. You think, oh,
you've got to set at home. Oh what's that for
a week? Two weeks? So, yeah, there's something out, there's
something happening. Okay, it's an emergency shelter in place. Yeah,
I remember that from when the sarne of guys were
blown up the Boston Marathon and the Mayor of Boston said,
you got a shelter in place while they hunt down
the guys. It's a little weird to have the entire

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global economy sheltering in place for three months, because the
assumption of sheltering in place is that for the two
weeks of the emergency, these guys are going to figure
out something to do about it. And what they have
done about it is what they've figured out is weird.
For example, the government of the Netherlands, which is a
functioning first world society, now says that after so long

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in lockdown, after so long in lockdown, you may be
pining for human touch. I'm pine. I find myself pining
for human touch. It seems like it's months and the
last person who touched me was Joe Biden at a
campaign stop in New Hampshire, so I'm really now longing
for human touch. The Government of the Netherlands says, if

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you're pining for human contact because the government is ordering
you to stay inside for months on end, then find
a sex buddy. So the National Institute for Public Health,
which one would assume is something to do with, you know,
getting rid of the coronavirus, is now advising you to
shack up with somebody that you meet over the internet.

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This is the same advice that doctor Fauci. Doctor Fauci
was asked whether it was okay to procure a sex
partner over the internet, and he said, oh, sure, go
for it. He made it sound a little bit more
medical than that, but that was basically it, Oh, shure,
go for it. I'm not sure whether he was volunteering himself.
He looks awfully cute in that eye to a shoulder

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mask that he was wearing when he was standing behind
the president the other day, But I don't I'm not
sure whether he's actually volunteering himself that. But he yeah,
he said it's okay to go on too Tinder. So
this is the world we're living in. It's okay to
procure random sex partners over the internet. But if you
want to walk down main street, you got to wear
a mask. None of this is scientific, none of it

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makes any sense, and it's all get nuttier and nuttier.
But I sense, well, there's there's there's two things. Let
me let me just back up a minute. There's two
kinds of lockdowns. As it were. There was something which
I think you could detect, and I was doing to
one degree of another myself in the weeks before the

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government locked everything down, And that's voluntary lockdown where people
assess their own health situation and assess their own exposure.
And in my case, I was looking at the also
the weak links in the chain, because any system to
prevent yourself from infection is only as good as the
weakest link in the chain. So grandma may be very

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sensible and her son may be very sensible, but the
idiot teenage son may be going all over town meeting
all kinds of people, and he'll when he comes into
wish her a happy birthday, he'll infect the place. So
you've got you've got to be kept. But people were
doing that. If you look at things like restaurant, attendance,
flight travel, all those things were down before the government

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lockdown began, the lockdown has not. Actually, so there's there's,
if you like, an individual's own choice of lockdown on
how far to constrain their world. That's what they're doing
in Sweden. When every when people say Sweden's the lone
exception in not going into lockdown, it doesn't mean that
everyone in Sweden is like it, packed into every bar,

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salivating all over people within a six feet radius. It
means that the Swedes are reaching their own determination about
and imagine this, imagine actually everything to say this on
an American radio show, that the Swedes are having to
act as individuals and make their own choices as to
what is in their own interest. It's almost like their

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grown ups and the rest of the Western world are
just children. And and so there's two kind there's two
kinds of lockdown. Says that voluntary one, which I think
you can say in Sweden has actually been quite effective.
And then there's this this government mandated one which isn't
doing anything except throttling, throttling the economy to the point

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where I mean, all these all these statistics, a whole
but of lost jobs may never be coming back. The
chairman of the FED. J. Powell says that the economy
may not whatever happened all to talk, you know, all
to talk about the v shape recession, we steep in
and then rock it out. Now the head of the

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FED says, it may not be till late twenty twenty
one that we get out of this thing. This is
the great question of recent years, and this is how
I think about it. Basically, everything has been a conflict
between the rule of experts and those who chafe under experts,

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and the experts tell us at the end of the
twentieth century, the late nineteen nineties, the experts told us
the planet was going to fry. The big graph was
the guy who's been suing me for eight years in
the DC Superior Court, Michael Mann, the guy who created
the global warming hockey stick, and it showed nothing had

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happened for the last thousand years, and the global climate
it was the flat handle of a hockey stick. And
then in the twentieth century, just about time your grandpa
got into his model T for whoops, there goes the planet,
a straight line, straight up, rocketing through the top right
hand corner of the graph, showing that we're all going
to fry in the early twenty first century, and we

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haven't already fried. So people think, what's up with those experts?
And then we have something like Brexit again the same thing.
People say, well, you know, all the experts agree that
Britain can't could possibly cope as a sovereign state. It
needs to be in the European Union. Okay, really uh,
And then we have Trump. Trump's basic line is that Trump,

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the Trump election of twenty sixteen was basically between the
globalist consensus and a skeptic of it and the skeptics one.
And I think you can make the care And as
Rush was saying the other day, essentially public health and
science in general have been corrupted by the whole sort

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of left wing politics. So science a lot of the
time science spoils. And I'm not disparaging scientists in general.
There are all kinds of scientists all over the place
doing good science. But public policy science, which is what
counts because it's the only bit members of the public
generally get to hear about. Public policy Silence is increasingly

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just a couple of dozen guys who have the correct
political attitude issuing a pronouncement on a subject that is
not actually borne out by the evidence. Andrew Cuomo more
or less admitted that today that he was saying he
acted when he shut down the state, he acted on

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the advice of people who basically said, we don't know
what's going to happen, but let's do it and hope
for the best. And this is the great conflict of
our time that as always say, we've our elites are
among the dumbest elites in history, and we keep being
told that the elite consensus, the global consensus, is the

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one is the one to follow, and in this case
it is no one knows what this thing. They've now
just added a couple of new symptoms of the coronavirus
that if you lose your sense of smell or your
sense of taste, you may have it. So basically, now
the coronavirus is like AIDS was in about nineteen eighty two.

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Everything is a possible symptom of it. And they keep
adding these things as they go. They know it's very
it's very disturbing this and it's particularly disturbing because of
the political implications the World Health Assembly. You've probably never
heard of that. There's no reason why you should have
heard of it, except it's the Who's big meeting at

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which all the decisions are made for It's one of
those bodies. There's all kinds of bodies like this. You've
never heard of them. There's no way you can go
to vote in or vote out any of these people,
but they basically make all the decisions for your life.
And that's the model that rule by experts favors. That
there's a world health organization and they're meeting while they're

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meeting virtually, but you know, normally they'd be a meeting
in Bali or the Cope does Year or somewhere equally agreeable,
and they'd be having a big meeting to make plans
for you. And you say, well, where where, which, which
schoolhouse or which town hall do I go to to
vote for Who's in the world health is? Well, you don't.

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You don't get to. And more and more public policy
is placed beyond our reach when it comes to rule
by experts, we will take your call straight ahead on
the Rush lying Borshew Mark signed for Rush. I'm just
reading a piece by doctor Russell Blaylock, MD, who's the
headline is fantastic. I love this face masks post serious

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risks to the healthy, get that face. Unfortunately, it won't
impact politicians because if you see all these gubernatorial and
mayoral press conferences, the reporters and the politicians all wear
face masks, and then they accidentally leave the ca Amazon
when the press conference packs up, and the first thing
the governor and the mayor and all the reporters do

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is all take off their must So it's already becoming
nothing flat. It's become the equivalent of the TSA security
theater that's been wasting our time for twenty years. Let's
go to Chris in Corning, New York. Chris, your first
up on the Russia Lin Bull Show. Hi, Mark, thanks
for taking my call. I appreciate it, my pleasure. So

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I just want to talk to you a bit about
these experts. Well, I do agree that most of them
got a lot of stuff wrong, and with all this
recent information, I really don't agree with most of the
experts anymore. But I feel that in the beginning, when
this was all starting to come to light, when that's
who was supposed to be a two week lockdown, I

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don't feel they were all necessarily wrong. I feel that
they were overcautious and over prepared. And I listened to
you and Rush all the time, as well as glenich On,
and we keep painting them as they were wrong, And um,
I guess I don't know what they're talking about, and

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I don't necessarily feel that that's fair for them to
for us to be painting them in a way that
they don't know what they're talking about because they didn't
predict predict the future correctly. Well, but I definitely agree
with all the new recent information that came to White
that a lot of it was just over the top. Well,

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the thing the thing about that when you say over
the top, Chris, that's the thing. It wasn't the It
wasn't the cautiousness we had. For example, Rand Paul mentioned
this in the Senate the other day. We had this
guy Ferguson at Imperial College in London who predicted that
half a million people would die in the UK and

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two million people would die in the US. And that's
like a respected institution and actually had played a great
part in the lockdown in both countries. And as Rand
Paul pointed out, he should be more modest. He's a
boob and his thing is basically whatever whatever comes along
we're all going to die. The Swedes, the Swedes actually

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the Swedish non experts in the Swedish government, they reached
two conclusions once the one that the virus was very
easy to catch, so in a sense, containing it is difficult.
But two that the the death numbers were grossly exaggerated.
So in other words, they looked at all the same

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people that the doctor Fauci did and they thought, these
guys are reading it wrong. So there is I think
there is a I think there is a critical question there.
And secondly, the lockdown is certain. There's never been anything
like this in human history. If you go back to
the Great Plague in London in sixteen sixty five, the

(32:58):
government in London in sixteen six five didn't tell healthy
people to stay at home for three months. That's unique
to our time. Nobody's ever done this. And the fact
is it's making people single. Yeah, this came out with
those numbers, yep. They they had me kind of worried too.

(33:19):
I'm thirty one years old. With all these death numbers
and stuff like that, I didn't know what to think,
and so I went along with it. Um, they had
met frightened. But then then as time when I was
at home for two months and then I had an
opportunity to get back to work and I said, you
know what, I've had it. I'm done with this. This
is not as nearly as bad. And then the fact

(33:40):
that they haven't updated or or admitted Okay, well, listen,
this isn't quite as bad for the healthy people. Let's
loosen the restrictions on the healthy people. Um that is,
it's just unfair. And they keep peddling this fear be
smell statistic. But in the beginning, I don't think it
was wrong for the American people too listened to the

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that you make it. Here's the thing, Chris, They're never
going to back down on this because because they've done
something extraordinary. Now, whatever happens to the virus, and it
is a dangerous virus, but whatever happens to the virus,
they've they've crippled the global economy in ways that, according

(34:25):
to the Chairman of the FED, is gonna take basically
a year and three quarters to get out of. If
that's the which according to his equivalence all over the map,
as said in Britain, it's supposed to be the worst
recession since the eighteenth century in Canada, the worst in
the country's history. They took that decision, and they're never

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gonna because of that, They're never gonna back down on this.
They're going to have to defend what they did for
all time because people are gonna say, Okay, you made
a wrong call and now we've got the worst recession
since the eighteenth century. Yeah, why don't you quit, Why
don't you become a monk? Why don't you clear off?
And we'll never hear from you about Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's the problem. Thank you for your Thank you for

(35:07):
you a call, Chris. There's the experts. I think this
is the thing. We'll talk about this a bit later.
You can call it a virus. But actually, as I said,
it hasn't afflicted nations. It's afflicted a certain cities like
New York, which is ten percent of the world's cases. Now,
what are the reasons for that? Are they medical or

(35:28):
are they to do with basically social customs and demography
and things in which doctor Fauci is not an expert.
We'll try and unpick some of that in the next
couple of hours. But maybe you don't need a doctor
to figure out why it clobbers New York City. But
the nation of Slovenia, for example, has just become the

(35:48):
first European nation to say we've done it, We've licked it,
there's no coronavirus. It's over. Let's party. So the differences
between Slovenia and New York City, maybe they're more cultural,
may the more social, maybe the more demographic, and maybe
doctor Fouci doesn't know anything about that. Mark Stein for Rush,
lots more still to come. In Louisa, Virginia, they're setting

(36:10):
an example by wearing face masks. Two men held up
a convenience store wearing hollowed out watermelons on their head.
Hollowed out watermelons. I would love to see doctor Fauci
wearing a watermelon on his head at the next press conference.

(36:30):
I think that would really send a signal showing that
we're taking this thing seriously. I don't know, I don't
It apparently does protect against catching the coronavirus, like these
two shoplifters with the watermelons on their head. It does
protect against the coronavirus, but you are at risk from watermelanoma.
So there's that mark Stein in for Rush, we have

(36:53):
lots more straight ahead. Yes, America's anchor man is away
and this is your undocumented anchor, Man mark Stein, honored
to be here. We have Mike handling all the technical
things in the EIB headquarters in New York City. He

(37:15):
is the only man in midtown man Hatton. He's the
only one there. If you if you're one of these
people who goes to the Big Apple because you want
to get all the hip Howay and Bally who are Broadway,
they ain't nothing happening except Mike, who is the is
the He's He's wearing a mask and nothing else, he

(37:36):
tells me. So it's like some basically Dollarama version of
the Chippendales. He's got going down there. But if you're
walking up Broadway and nothing's happening, look for Mike wearing
his mask and nothing else. Outside the EIB building anacost.
We have mister Snurdley down in Florida making sure that
only the very best callers in these United States get

(38:01):
get through onto the show. Rush is out. You know
how it works. This came up I think on the
day after Rush made his announcement in January. I think
that was on the Monday, and I was here on
the Tuesday, and a caller suggested that instead of saying
mega dittos, we say mega prayers, So you are welcome
to send your mega prayers to Rush that way. Or

(38:22):
you can actually send a message to Rush if you
go to Rush Limbaugh dot com and right at the
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it's the third one along. You click on that and
you can send a message to us. You can upload
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(38:44):
their Rush is very touched by that. I find it.
It's strange because when you're basically under house arrest for months,
you get broody and introspective. And I think about this
more as the we of lockdown go by. But I'm
so grateful to Rush allowing a foreigner to come. And

(39:09):
I mean, we know now that everything everything's made by China,
and every piece of chicken and hamburger in America has
been chopped up by Burmese immigrants or whatever it is
they're using it, Tyson. But it is a special privilege
that even America's number one radio show gets outsourced to
one very grateful foreigner. It's it's it's a particular honor

(39:31):
for me. I've been learned a long time, and I
thank Rush very much. I can't we owe him. We
owe him such a lot. This entire format of radio,
the fact that there are hundreds of radio stations all
broadcasting this kind of format, is due single handedly to Rush.

(39:52):
There's there's no where I mentioned somewhere other the other
day where it's the centenary of a man first playing
a record on the radio. And that was in nineteen
twenty in Montreal, when the Marconi engineer played a gramophone
record of the Irish tenor John McCormack singing Dear Old
Palamine to an audience sitting in the Chateau Laurier Hotel

(40:18):
in Ottawa from the Royal Society in Canada. And that
guy basically invented disc jockeying. He didn't know it and
nobody and it never really took off until the fifties.
Rush actually invented a format that replaced disc jockeying on
AM radio. He did it all by himself, and it
didn't take thirty five years. He managed to do it
instantly which is which is spectacular? All grateful to him Rhondas.

(40:42):
Oh oh, mister Snadley has a question. What's your question,
mister Snadley go on, shoot, oh yeah, no, yeah, that's
a that's an excellent point. Mister Snadi wants to know
whether people are gonna want people in large offices or
whether they're gonna work from home forever. No, a lot

(41:02):
of these people aren't going to be coming back. I mean,
I'm one had I watched I watched some of these
television people. People say, why are you're on television these days?
I'm horrified by the skyping. You get this lousy picture,
this lousy audio quality. I was looking at somebody on
the BBC who was purporting to be a great expert,

(41:23):
and she had on her fireplace on the mantelpiece behind
her like an empty bottle of why that. It looked
as if she'd just been chugging it down before she
went on the BBC to tell you how you need
to live your life. I think tell I think television.
That's a very good example. Now then this is so cheap.
You got to bet when, if if people will put

(41:43):
up watching sky you skyping it in whether they'll actually
want to go back to having sets and hairdressers and
makeup artists and all the other expenses when they get
used to that, and that goes for all these other
companies too. I'm think we're looking at a I think
we're looking at a big time calibration of the economy.

(42:04):
And I think, again, not just the big companies, mister Snadley.
But it's interesting to me, Like in Switzerland they opened
up restaurants. I think it was last week sometime, and
people were very reluctant to go, and they're all worried
now that in fact actual this may have changed people's
entire view to a large degree of what constitutes what

(42:27):
constitutes normal life. I said last hour that, in combinance
with social distancing rules, I was only going to make
one good point every six feet, and Rhonda Shrock was
kind enough to think that was worth tweeting. But she
also enclosed a picture of Rhonda's son with me and
Molly Hemingway at the dedication of the brand new chapel

(42:52):
in Hillsdale College in Michigan a couple of months back.
I think it was in the fall last year, and
I think the first new chap not quite within living memory,
but sort of I think sixty five seventy years maybe
more beautiful chapel. And the reason Molly and I agreed
to have our picture taken with Rhonda's son was he

(43:13):
was singing in the choir and he just sung an anthem.
I really like, I was glad when they said, unto me,
Sir Hubert Parry, all those voices packed together in that
choir soaring up into the ceiling of this beautiful new chapel.
It was just like a gorgeous sound. And it's weird

(43:35):
to me that that actually is illegal. Now. You can't
actually have what Rhonda's son and his fellow choir members did,
singing that anthem by Sir Hubert Parry and the voices
soaring up into the roof of that chapel. You cannot do.
And we don't know when it's going to be going
to be coming back. What also made it was not

(43:58):
no disrespect to Rhonda's son. It was not just his singing,
but the chapel was dedicated by Clarence Thomas. You know
Clarence Thomas obviously because he's on the Supreme Court, but
there is a film about him airing on PBS tonight.
I normally never watch people. I only watch PBS for
the pledge drives, where they say for three hundred dollars

(44:21):
you can get a Charlie Rose bath Court not included.
You know that That's the only reason I ever watched
PBS is for the Pledge show. My one ambition in
broadcasting is to get to be the guy doing the
PBS Pledge Drive with the phone bank behind him not ringing.
That's the only thing I like on PBS. But tonight
they actually have something you may want to tune into.

(44:42):
It's a documentary on Clarence Thomas. And what's the title
of it's It's called Created Equal Clarence Thomas. In his
own words, it's sort of nine pm Easton, but you've
got to check local listings because they show it all
at odd times on PBS. It's never it's never as
easy as you think. But it's one in which he

(45:04):
and his delightful wife Virginia Thomas speak about his life,
which is a fantastic journey, a fantastic jo And the
thing I like about one of the terrible things that
happened with that business thirty years ago is that it

(45:25):
with Clarence Thomas. It's sort of got in the way
of actually getting to know him and hear him in
his own voice, and he will be doing that tonight
on PBS, and I do recommend it for that. It's
produced and directed by Michael Pack, created equal Clarence Thomas
in his own words. And I will say this about
because Clarence Thomas did the dedication at that beautiful Hillsale

(45:50):
Chapel and it was beautiful. It was very moving, and
he is such a sonorous voice when he's doing something
sober and serious and he's quote scripture and all that.
But at the same time, then when you're like backstage
in the wings with him, he has the most fantastic
laugh he's got. If you say something that even remotely

(46:11):
tickles him slightly, he does this great, big barrel chested
bear laugh that's sort of wrapping the needle round the
end of the dial, pushing it up to eleven or
whatever they say in spiral tap. He's like a fantastic
If it's really the case that we are now going
to only have twenty five percent capacity in theaters from

(46:33):
now that's the new normal, then I pray to God
that the next time I'm on stage, you got Clarence
Thomas in there, because his laugh does the work of
three hundred men if you're if you're in a theater.
And I was on stage the night before that dedication.
I was just a bit of low brows stick, certainly
nothing as moving or profound as he was talking about.

(46:55):
But I could always hear when he is such a
memorable distinct and I was doing a lot of judge
jokes for some reason. I think I was mocking judges,
which is all, of course, always a perilous thing to
do when you've got a big time judge in the
room with you. But he that huge memorable laugh of his.
I shall never forget He's and Jinny, his wife, is

(47:17):
always delightful company too. It's an intest, it's a fascinating story.
It ought to be a great inspiring story. And you
can hear Justice Thomas in his own words tonight in
a big documentary on PBS that that thing I mentioned earlier,

(47:39):
that you can't actually hear the choir we listen to
that day, that that's never going to be coming back.
This is what people, this is what people are seriously
proposing now, the new normal I'll tell you two things
I don't like about it that just sort of creep
me out a bit about it that somehow all the solutions, like,
for example, no live music. You know, the last time

(48:02):
I was writing about society's banning music, it was ISIS
and the Taliban. So I'm creeped out by the fact
that we're basically adopting ISIS Taliban policies and music. You
can't there's no music in Afghanistan. They don't like it.
Whatever you're into. You can't play the Celindon Christmas album
in Taliban run Afghanistan. They'll decapitate you for it. They

(48:25):
actually beheaded a bunch of musicians I think it was
on the Libyan coast ISIS did when they caught them
with their cellos. Why are we adopting ISIS policies on music.
That's basically what's happening. And then again we get to
the mask, the face covering again that is a sign
of Talibanic societies, ISIS societies. It's not quite the full

(48:47):
kneecap like they like they wear in Raca when it
was run by the new Caliphort, but it's actually getting
pretty close there. It destroys social trust. This idea. I've
never liked burkas and kneecabs and all the rest of it,
because I don't want to be walking through a city
surrounded by masks people. I think it lowers social trust.
And now we're adopting it. So the funny thing is,

(49:09):
what's weird to me is that these two things. The mask,
which is also I think a symbol of one of
the other appalling features of the last few months, the
restraints on free speech where restraint. The fact that we're
covering our mouths itself seems to have some disturbing aspects

(49:30):
to it, but it's basically like a sort of Sharia
light thing. No music and you have to wear masks.
These are not if this is the new normal spirit,
I don't want to live like this, I really don't.
These are like the music thing is is not a
small thing. The orchestra is one of the great features,
one of the great civilizing features of the last thousand years.

(49:56):
And the idea that somehow we're now may that illegal forever.
We're now having organizations saying until there's a virus, you
can have no public singing. These are these are disturbing
features and as I said, a lot of it is.
It's like a kind of it's like some kind of

(50:16):
a Sharia light version that's going on. It's making you
in the end, who cares whether the Taliban get back
in Afghanistan, because we'll look pretty much the same by
the time this is all through. Mark Stein for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead. Mark Stein in for
Rush shadd the golden EIB microphone on America's number one

(50:37):
radio show. Let us go to Donna in high Point,
North Carolina. It's it's the high point of my day.
But I expect Donna's heard that before. Donna, It's great
to have you with us on the show. Oh, Mark,
thanks for having me my pleasure. You touched on something
at the beginning of the show about there being two
diseases wafting in the air, and one of them is

(51:01):
my opinion is that one of them is a coronavirus.
The other one is like alcoholism. And it seems like
Insley and Whippmer and now Mayor Deblasio are drunk with power.
I'm sorry, go ahead, no, no, I wouldn't disagree with that.
That's totally turned the case of Insley and de Blasio
and like a bunch of these people. Yep, he came

(51:23):
out and said today that anyone who tries to get
into water, he'll be taken right out of the water,
speaking of the city beaches, and all I could think was,
I hope people have their cameras going because it'll be
like a Buster Keaton clip or the Keystone cops. Well,
well it will to sadings. You could always, by the way,

(51:44):
make a break for it, try to swim out from
the beach into international waters and then just laugh at
the coppers as they can't their jurisdiction ends. However, many
have a far out of the water. It is but
actually it isn't funny because if you take these people seriously, right,
this thing is contagious. Are the people going to be

(52:05):
swimming out the New York City police going to be
swimming out in masks that your mask gets soggy it
makes it hard to breathe there? Are they going to
be observing social distancing when they're trying to drag the
swimmer out into the water. The policing, if you take
what Builder Blasio says seriously, then actually the policing of

(52:28):
the event dragging the guy out of the water is
actually more life threatening than anything the guy's doing. There's
no science behind any of this. There's there's no science
behind the two meter rules. That's what's gotten so ridiculous
about it. Things that are actually the two meter rule
was just an arbitrary figure six feet picked out because

(52:49):
it's like roughly twice build a Blasio's height. That is
roughly dilber. It's roughly build a Blasio's height. It's about
six feet, whereas if you say thirteen feet, which is
the distance the virus can travel, then most people can't
work out what thirteen feet is. Is at the length
of my living room or half the length of my

(53:10):
living room. People don't know that, so they just picked
on that number arbitrarily, the six feet two meters thing.
And the other thing is the idea that they're actually
wrenching people out of there's now it's now become there's
a something when you see it, Donna. At some of
these things, it's very much political activists, like you see
out the New Jersey gym. But at the beach it's

(53:32):
just like regular people who are sick of being told
they have to stay indoors. This isn't even if politics
has now become a thing between people who favor keeping
you indoors and people in favor of letting you out
of doors. Then we have degenerated into the most simpleton
society in human history. Who would ever have thought that

(53:54):
would become a political issue, Donna, you've got, you've got,
Just catch my tongue. I don't know, it's ridiculous. It's
beyond reason. Well, well yeah it is. It is beyond
it is beyond reason. But I think, as we were
talking about in the in the last hour, you know,
because this is such an extreme thing, the politicians are

(54:15):
never going to back back up out of this. Their
thing now is basically they've they're they've got themselves out
on a limb, their way out at the end where
it's a thin twig, and their trick is to slow
things down so they can crawl back to the tree
trunk without having to admit that they've inflicted huge damage

(54:36):
on people for very little benefit. And that's why I
think that's why Corwell came out and said there won't
be any law suits. Well, no, this is America. There'll
be lawsuits. You can't you can't say you can't say
fair about anything, and and it it would be the

(54:59):
first thing in American history that didn't have lawsuits if
that was the case. That's actually an interesting point. Thank
you very much for your call. A dollar. That's daughter
in high Point, North Carolina. And as I said, it
is the high point of the day. What the lockdown,
tough lockdown, mini lockdown, self imposed lockdown. When you actually

(55:22):
look at the graphs, you look at the statistics, it's
not actually borne out by the evidences. And that's something
that politicians eventually will have to answer for. Yes, America's
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(56:50):
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(57:11):
is go to rush Limbo dot com. South Korea. South
Korean football Club. I think they mean soccer by that
has had to apologize because, as you know, they're bringing
back sporting events. The president said he wanted to fill
see stadiums full of people, and nobody's ready to do that.

(57:33):
But they have started bringing out a few sports teams
to play games in entirely empty stadia. And that was
supposed to be the rule at Soul FC Soul Football
Club versus Guangju Football Club on yesterday Sunday. That's like

(57:53):
one of South Korea's top teams. It's the Soul team,
and they had a bit of a problem because they
got the empty stadium, so they decided to It looked bad.
It just looks depressing to see people playing a game
in an empty stadium, like nobody's shown up, like it
was my last farewell to It's the same look, just

(58:14):
empty seats everywhere you look. So they filled the empty
seats with sex dolls. I have no idea. I have
no idea where you get that many sex dolls on
a Sunday in South Korea, But apparently it's easier than
you think, and people have now complained. People have said
that this is in grotesque. Some of them were like

(58:35):
they were like doctor Fouci approved sex dolls because they
were wearing the face masks and were social distancing. But
the sex dolls from solo s. If you know your
sex dolls, this is a really premium sex doll, the Solos.
I don't know whether that's the one doctor Fouci or
the Government of the Netherlands recommends, but at anyway, they're
all sitting in the stadium. Do you realize this is

(58:58):
what it's going to be. Now? This is this is it.
We will never have public gatherings again under the plans
they're making for us. So, for example, the inauguration next January,
they'll just be the whole of the whole of the
by the White House and Pennsylvania and just be full

(59:19):
of sex dolls to make it look like there's a crowd.
If you go to the Metropolitan Opera to hear Mozart
Marriage of Figure, Oh, the crowd will just be a
crowd of sex dolls. They'll they'll train them, they'll figure
out a thing by which the sex dolls will be
able to chair and say bravo. They'll make us even
for the national anthem at the NFL gays. They'll come

(59:40):
up with a Colin Kaepernick sex doll that can drop
to its knee in support of Colin Kaepernick. This is
this is There wasn't no ord. Mike in New York
came in on the ende of that, and I think
I think he'd got out to the bath when he
came back talking about a Colin Kaepernick sex doll. Obtuously,

(01:00:01):
he had had a difficult time following the seven steps
needed to lead up to that. And anyway, this is
what it is now, audiences of sex dolls, audiences of
sex dolls. This is if there's any if whoever succeeds
our civilization, whether it's the Chinese, it's the Aya tollers,

(01:00:21):
it's space aliens from the planet Zongo, they will be
looking at this are soul. Yes, they had a so
they there was a big there was a big strange
virus around. So to ward off the virus, they played
sports games in huge arenas with seats full of sex dolls. Truly,

(01:00:43):
this was a primitive society. Did they then find a
virgin sex doll straight from the factory, presumably, and sacrifice
the virgin sex doll into the volcano? We are we
are literally going, man, we have some breaking news. We
have some breaking news. I can't just talk about I
would be happy to talk about sex dolls at public
gatherings for the next hour and a half, but I

(01:01:04):
feel obliged to move on the judge. Now, do you
remember this Michael Flinn case. This judge is the most
appalling man. Emmett Sullivan is his name, and he won't take.
He won't take. There's no case for an answer. Basically,
the parties in the case are in agreement that the

(01:01:24):
case should be dismissed. But because the judge is a hack,
he then took the unusual position of inviting another judge
to make the argument as to why he should deny
the government of the United States motion to dismiss its
own case. This is the I know a bit about

(01:01:44):
justice and the American courts because I'm always getting sued,
And as always say, federal justice is particularly bad because
it's the most corrupt, and it's usually corrupt. Because the
government wins ninety nine percent of its cases ninety seven
without going to trial. It's corrupt. It's fundamentally corrupt. That's
just kim Jong un territory those percentages. But even when

(01:02:07):
the government decides, okay, we know we can win this
one without going to trial ninety percent without going to trial.
But actually, in this case where we realize we've been
caught red handed, So where now withdrawing our case, and
we'd like you to dismiss it. The judge, a federal judge,
then invites another judge who isn't a party to the case. Normally,

(01:02:29):
in free societies, in court houses, in civilized societies, trials
are between the parties to the case. Now, in this case,
the two parties, the prosecution and the defense, happen to agree.
So the judge said, oh, sorry, that's that's not good
enough for me. Let's invite some third party in this case,

(01:02:50):
some judge, other judge to file a motion on why
the party's motion to dismiss the case should not grant.
And now this guy Gleason, this other judge has said
he's going to do that next month. And all the
while the drip drip, drip, drip drip, the drain on Flynn,
the ruination of his finances, his reputation, and his life continues.

(01:03:17):
There's you can't have amicus briefs in criminal cases. An
amicus brief is what is it? Amicus curia cura friend
of the court. People in civil cases, you can file
an amicus brief. For example, I mentioned that this climate
change whacko has been suing me in the District of
Columbia for eight years, and a lot of people have
failed filed amicus briefs on my side, not because they

(01:03:41):
liked me, but because they recognize that this crazy, out
of control climate scientist is what he. Were he to win,
it would be vague damaging to freedom of speech. And
so in a civil case where it's in this case
it's Michael Mann versus Mark Stein, you can file an
amicus brief. You can't file an amicus brief in a

(01:04:02):
criminal case where it's the United States of America versus Flynn.
That's what the case is, United States of America versus Flynn.
And you can't invite amicus briefs from people who'd like
to see Flynn go to jail. This judge, this judge
shouldn't be on the bench. It's I cannot believe. I've
I've watched all the perversions of common law over the

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last two and a half centuries, as these wacky things
are creaked to essentially a system that was in pretty
good shape. And this is absolute, this is absolutely disgusting
the idea that they just a put in more basic
terms as well. This is why I'm mad about this,
and I'm I said, just says an aside because I

(01:04:45):
hate the politics of it, but because people, everyone should
be opposed this. But Lindsey Graham, every time I see
Lindsey Graham on TV, he's proposing starting to have hearings
in two weeks time. This is the longest two weeks
in when I said lost or cracker track of time
in the lockdown? But how long is this two weeks
going to go on for because it's been going on

(01:05:06):
for three years. Either hold hearings or don't hold hearings,
but don't keep dangling them out like, oh yeah, hearings
are just two weeks ago. Okay, Okay, enough of that.
Here's it's as basic as this. There are parties. A
court exists to adjudicate controversies between parties. So there's the
plaintiff and there's the defendant, or there's the prosecution in

(01:05:30):
a criminal case and there's a defendant. If the parties agree,
as they do in the Flint case, there is then
no controversy for the judge to adjudicate. And what does
a judge. Do as my lawyer always says to me.
A judge sits. That's the expression the sitting judge. A
judge sits. The reason a judge sits is because he's

(01:05:53):
not meant to intervene. He is supposed to as in
the scales of justice way one side and the other side.
A judge sits, he doesn't actively get up and starts
shaking his booty, which is what Emmett Sullivan is doing.
This case that started out as the United States versus
Flynn is now Sullivan versus Flynn. So he's judge and prosecutor.

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What kind of third rate Banana Republic does that go on? In?
I can't stand listening to a measured Republicans. Mitch McConnell
the other night, saw him on TV. He was asked
about this. He showed no passion, he showed no anger,
he showed actually no desire to do anything about it.
Come on, man, when the judge is also the prosecutor,

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which is what happened, which is what's happened here, you
are in full blown Banana Republic territory. Is the sentimajority
leader and the chairman of whatever committee. Lindsey Graham's the
chairman of Are you just going to put up with that?
That's not a threat to Flynn, that's a threat to everyone.

(01:07:01):
When are we gonna this judge? This judge, they should
file whatever it is, an interlocutory motion. Get the Supreme
Court to take this up urgently and tell this guy
to take a hike. Mark Stein for us, your calls
in just a moment, mark Stein in for us. Let
us go to Frank. Frank in Frank in Manhattan. That

(01:07:23):
can't be right. I didn't think there was anybody left
in Manhattan, but Frank is there. I don't know where
everybody else has fled to, but Frank is in Manhattan,
presumably hold up and self quarantined and all the rest
of its great to have you with us on the show. Frank,
Thank you, such a pleasure to be here. My pleasures,
my privilege. Frank, don't sell yourself short. What's on your

(01:07:46):
mind today? Well? I have an issue with why we
are wearing masks. All right. They keep telling us because
we are asymptomatic, but they're not reporting on how many people,
now that they've done four million, just have come up asymptomatic.
It could be young all right, right, Well, the thing

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about the mask is the most obvious example of how
the expert advice just changes from one week to another.
Because they told us we didn't need to wear the
masks a few weeks back, now we do need to
wear them. I mean a lot of jurisdictions require you
to well in your own city, and in matt in
your own burn Manhattan. I think it was they were

(01:08:30):
beating some woman to the ground because she was wearing
her mask incorrectly. So I hope when you go out
and you ride the subway, Frank, that you you you
you're wearing your mask in the in the right way.
I don't I think that. I think the mask rules
are just floundering on their part because they don't really know.
They actually have no idea yet how this thing works,

(01:08:54):
how it transmits from person to person masks. Masks is
all right. The masks are not meant to protect you
from being infected, but are largely to protect you from
infecting anyone. That's why we're in the old days when
if you went into a hospital for a hernia operation,
you didn't wear a mask, but the doctor wore a mask,

(01:09:15):
the idea being that when he'd opened you up. He
wasn't going to infect you with anything. So we've now
turned that on its head and kind of made it
a virtue signaling thing. You know what's going to be.
Just to take it to the next people are soon
going to be They're going to be having rainbow masks,
the the the They're going to be having masks that

(01:09:36):
you advertise your pronouns on. This is a slightly this
is nothing to do with asane medical reaction to the situation.
Have you stayed in Let me ask you this, Frank,
have you stayed in Manhattan throughout You're basically there full time?
Are you? Yes, sir? Here full time? The Central Park
yesterday and I take it it was empty, not really packed.

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But once we see all these seasons on the news
and people walking down Fifth Avenue, sixth Avenue completely completely empty,
how long do you think they can do that to
one of the great cities. I think they're ready to
explode now. I hope that we start picketing at city
Hall or the Governor's office, whoever has the most authority.

(01:10:23):
I'm not too sure who, but something has to be
done soon. People are just you know, don't we store great?
I even see online. You know all the comments on
all these websites like Reddit and whatever. Well, you know
the thing about it is people are not going to
put up with arbitrary. Well, one things that's difficult about

(01:10:43):
the mask, for example, is as I mentioned last hour,
that if you're healthy, then just wearing a mask actually
can keep things you're breathing out going back inside you.
And all there's all kinds of all kinds of issues
for that. But thank you for you a Cole Frank
and stay stay safe and stay free in the great
glittering boutique of Manhattan, one of the emblems of the world,

(01:11:07):
a great metropolis, and it's again as I said last
out there No, there aren't actually countries nations with this.
What there are like clusters like in New York City,
like in Madrid, like in London, like in northern Italy,
and sometimes it spreads beyond. But even when it totals

(01:11:30):
a whole region like northern Italy for example, it interestingly
didn't spread to southern Italy. And just on the New
York thing. If you look at the whole of New
England northeast of New York City, almost all the cases
anywhere in what they call the Upper Valley of Vermont,
New Hampshire, on the along the Connecticut River valley it comes.

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It's actually been seeded there by people from New York City,
where it hasn't exploded in the same way. So, in
other words, someone brought it to New York and it exploded,
but then a New Yorker decides to scram and heads
up to northern New Hampshire or Vermont or the Maine
Woods and it doesn't explode in quite the same way there.

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And that's not that in itself brings me back to
what I said last hour, that there actually may be
more social, cultural demographic reasons for this. And I don't
understand why the world's most bloated bureaucracies have not been
able to firm anything up in the three months they've
had as under house arrest Mark Stein for Rush, lots

(01:12:37):
More Silver Cup, Mark Stein for Rush. In Michigan, the
Corona Groupe and Fura Whitma has announced that some bars
and restaurants will be allowed to reopen on Friday. Waiters
will be required to wear face masks, Waiters will be
wearing facemall actually on bounce, I'm I'm probably in favor

(01:13:00):
of that, because the one thing I can't stand about
waiters is when they come by and say, how's everything tasting?
For some REASONA always in the middle. I'm telling an
hilarious story and they crash it. Just that the punch
I also don't like it. Can I start you with
some water? But they're going to be wearing face masks.
The Polite Bureau has relented and waiters in face masks

(01:13:22):
are back. Yes, America's hanker Man is away. And this
is usually the point in the show where I say,
I'm here from Ice Station eib in the far northern
wastes of fun Nor than New England. And if just

(01:13:44):
twenty minutes a stone's throw from the Canadian border, and
if you're fleeing the country, do swing by and say hi,
because you can't miss us. We've got a big sign
on the highway saying last rush guest host before the border.
You can't even do that anymore because the borders closed.
The borders closed, and I'm not sure it's ever coming back.
There's a there's a permanence a lot of these temporary measures,

(01:14:07):
and the fact that we've all actually been under the
lockdown underlines that a lot of these temporary measures are
sund to feel kind of permanent. What's the big thing
that's going on here? Rush actually started to speculate on
that and this is this is I think this was

(01:14:28):
Thursday Thursday show. So you've been said to speculate idly
upon it, and this is what Rush got to last Thursday. Him.
I but my favorite conspiracy theory, and I'm not going
to tell you who it accuses. That's that's the way
to do this. My favorite conspiracy theory is that this

(01:14:50):
virus is the work of a bunch of lunatic billionaires
who really believe that we you're destroying the planet. And
they have discovered that we can't get to Mars in
time and we can't colonize the Moon, so they have
come up with a way to get rid of billions

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of people, to make the world have a longer survivability potential.
That it is a population control thing because wealthy billionaires
who really thought they can colonize Mars or the Moon
and leave this planet to say this is now realize
it isn't going to happen in their lifetimes, and so

(01:15:33):
time for Plan B. Let's get rid of a couple
billion people, so the Earth will survive. Well, the first
name you mentioned is the one I saw this with
a town. I'm not going to mention the name because
that's the other The other name you mentioned is a

(01:15:54):
satellite entry in the theory. Now, at first, this theory
was the reason why it suckered me in for five seconds,
because it has just enough believability. These people are nuts.
They seriously were hoping to be able to escape Earth

(01:16:18):
to get to Mars or some other astrois something to
columni because they really really think we're destroying the planet.
That kind of insanity is out there, and it's in
charge of the climate change or global warm what do
you want to call it movement. You know, Rush isn't
wrong because there's a certain illogic to what's been going

(01:16:39):
on in the world in the last couple of months,
so it isn't entirely explicable by what is actually happening.
And I don't know whether I'm quite with Rush on
board with that conspiracy theory, but I was thinking about
it because it's true that if this were a conspiracy
theory and wavioed to the movies, Remember that movies they

(01:17:00):
used to be held in like big buildings, and you'd
go in and you get popcorn, and you'd all sit
close together. Movies, movies, the older members in the audience
will remember what that was. But like when they make
a conspiracy thriller in the movies, it's always boring because
the conspiracy it turns out to be some friend of
Dick Cheney's at Haliburton who's behind it. But this actually

(01:17:22):
what is. We are living the Green New Deal at
the moment. That's what's happening. So it's almost as if
these climate billionaires that Rush mentions had all got together
and they had come up with something that was just
bad enough. In other words, they couldn't get to the
stage rush once where they killed billions of us. But

(01:17:45):
what it's actually done, it's killed just enough people to
shut down the global economy. So what that means is,
if you're strolling around the outlying parts of Somalia, for example,
life is pretty much as it used to be, and
you hear every once in a while you hear that

(01:18:06):
there's some big disease going around that everyone in mogad
Issue or wherever is all a bit worried about. But
it doesn't you're Essentially, life's fine for you. What it
hasn't affected in so far as there is a Somali economy,
I don't believe that the coronavirus has actually affected it.
What it's actually done is shut down North America. It's

(01:18:28):
shut down Western Europe, it's shutdown Australia, it's shut down
all the global economy except for China and Sweden. And
what if you take Russia's theory seriously that it's been
done by climate change? Guys dads say, there's actually some
support for that. But if you look in outside America,

(01:18:49):
the media out that the BBC every couple of days
at the BBC they run a story on how since
this thing started, New York City's carbon footprint has come
down enormously, because, as we were talking about with Frank
from Manhattan, fifth Avenues empty, sixth Avenues empty, All the

(01:19:10):
streets of midtown Manhattan are empty. So they're all saying, oh,
the good news. People are wondering why. There's a lot
of people have lost their jobs and a lot of
people have died. But the good news is that in
terms of climate change, New York and London and Paris
have done a fantastic job at reducing their carbon footprint.

(01:19:31):
That's great news in like in New York all it
turns out that to reduce your carbon footprint to be
compliant with the Paris Accords, all ift. It is what
Andrew Cuomo did and warehouse infected people in seniors homes,
nursing homes, retirement homes, care homes, and then just shove
Granny and a big mountain of Granny's fellow inmates shove

(01:19:53):
their corpses into the climate volcano. To abase yourself before
the climate gods. And it is is curious that that
was that was our reaction to this. And you know
that these stories, well they say, oh, this is so model.
Look what a terrific job Governor Cuomo's doing. Just by
killing a few thousand old people and seizing up the economy,

(01:20:16):
he's managed to make New Yorker sterling example to the
rest of us of what happens when you're really serious
about reducing your emissions, because the only emissions are coming
from the crematoria. That's terrific, and there is something amazing.
We were all surprised, or we all pretend to be
surprised when Nancy Pelosi does the Coronavirus Relief Bill, And

(01:20:39):
there's sixty eight mentions of cannabis in there, and there's
illegal immigrants in there. And that's the left, though the
left is all the left doesn't let anything ever disrupt
it from the narrative. They it doesn't matter what it is.
It could be the coronavirus Relief bill, it could be

(01:21:01):
the tsunami relief bill. It could be that we've been
invaded by space aliens and they're all living in Beta
o Rocks Boxer Shorts bill. And the solution from the
left is always the same, that we need open borders,
and we need more cannabis, and we need climate change,

(01:21:22):
and they're always for everything is just an excuse to
ram the same old agenda through. And I think about
that and I really wonder why where is where is
the rights big in terms of the congressional right, Where
is their big picture? You know, when Mitch McConnell said, oh,
this is just a liberal wish list from Nancy Pelosi. Okay, okay, leash,

(01:21:46):
she's got a wish list. What's our wish list? You know,
what's conservatism's wish list? What do we want to do?
You know, while they the first thing that happens. Oh, look,
space aliens have landed. The coronavirus is in town, have
a big three trillion dollar bill, and it's all the
usual stuff from Nancy Pelosi, but it's not the usual
stuff from us. Where's our equivalent to that? And here's

(01:22:10):
just to bring it back to the big picture. I
said last hour that I didn't like. I don't want
to live in a mask society. I don't want to
live in a society where you kind of live music.
There's all kinds of this sort of permanent emergency that
are creeping me out. But where it goes ultimately, there

(01:22:30):
was a story in Forbes the other day that it's
going to be you know, now you catch up plane.
You got to get to the airport two hours beforehand,
and you had to have suff shuffled shoelas through the
TSA bureaucracy, and then the TSA guys were put on
the latex gloves and start fumbling around your private parts.
That's actually then I understand they're not doing that at

(01:22:52):
the moment because, aside from the fact that the airline
industry has collapsed, all that stuff spreads diseases because they
like only change their latex glove like once every three
weeks or something. So it's all actually a big disease incubator.
You're just going to get the disease from the TSA
guys groping around in your trousers. So now they're going
to bring in a whole new other thing. You're going
to have to get to the airport four hours early,

(01:23:14):
You're going to have to have your temperature taken, You're
going to have to go through disinfectant tunnels. What happened
and this brings do you remember that guy, the Pensacola guy.
There's just been just before it came on air, the
Department of Justice Bill bar and FBI Director Ray We're

(01:23:35):
holding a big press conference about this Saudi Arabian pilot
at Pensacola who went full g hard, he went full
Allahu Akbar, and he killed and injured Americans. And they've
been investigating this for the usual whatever it is, two years,
seven years. They've got a lot of them. They're played

(01:23:55):
at the FBI. They're so busy surveilling Trump supporters and
Trump aids that themn't got a lot of time for
any other thing. But I mean, they eventually got around
to the Pensacola guy, member of the Royal Saudi Arabian
Air Force. He's twenty three years old. He has been
full g Had since twenty fifteen. Now you think, where

(01:24:19):
did we come in on this crappy story? And this
is why it's difficult not to have total contempt for
how stupid we are. We came in on this September eleventh,
two thousand and one, when a whole bunch of Saudis
decided they were going to fly planes into American buildings.
Here we are two decades later, and we are full

(01:24:40):
blown twenty four seven surveillance state that's operating round the
clock with resources that no security agencies in the history
of the world have ever known, doesn't find out until
it's too late that this Saudi guy we led into
the country was g has been ghad full g had
full Allahu Akbar since twenty fifteen. But meanwhile, our surveillance

(01:25:03):
state tools are used to get Carter Page and George
Poppadopoulos and and Michael Flynn. This is what's wrong with
this picture that everything something like this happens nine to eleven.
Now the coronavirus, our societies get more authoritarian, and those
tools are not targeted on the actual source of our

(01:25:26):
woes in the g Had guys in nine to eleven
and China in the case of this president things they're
turned on the citizenry. What's the way to bet? What's
the way to bet with this thing that is going
to be more authoritarian on you? And as we see
with this thing in Pensacola, Ghad, boy, we can't even

(01:25:47):
get We still have a program that trains Saudi pilots,
and we don't even check those Saudi pilots to figure
out if they're if they're going full g Had and
they've been full g Had for five year. Is it's
pathetic At some point people deserve to live in chains.
If every time something happens, we are made the victims

(01:26:09):
of it. If every time nine to eleven the coronavirus, oh,
something extraordinary has happened, well, we're going to make your
lives more miserable. If this is a war, we get
all the war talk from Western leaders like McCrone. If
it's a war, let's take it to the enemy instead
of our own citizens, which is the mistake we made
on nine eleven. Mark Stein for us lots more straight

(01:26:30):
ahead Mark Stein in for us last hour, I was
talking about that South Korean footy game soccer match and
they were playing another of the big team's Soul was
playing another big teams and sat and because it's a
bit depressing playing in an empty stadium, they've filled up
the stadium with sex dolls with face masks on. And

(01:26:54):
then I moved on to talking about the Michael Finn
case where the judge doesn't want to let it go.
The parties are in agreement, there's no case, but the
judge is refusing just to give Michael Flynn his life back.
Jerry trials are actually on hold at the moment, and
I wonder if the quickest way to expetite this wouldn't
actually be to do the South Korean soccer model and actually,

(01:27:15):
instead of just having sex dolls at the soccer game,
to actually be tried in federal court by a jury
of twelve sex dolls, because it actually couldn't be any
more corrupt than what's going on in Judge Sullivan's court.
Right now, let us go to Clay in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
which I trust is not an epicenter of the coronavirus. Clay,

(01:27:40):
you're live on the Rush Limball Show. Hey, Mark, thanks
so much for taking the call and make your prayers
and ditto's a Rush and also to you for always
flawlessly executing a role of guests us here through the years. Yes,
I think a quick point these you're during this crisis
so soon where you began to really flip and change
in terms of the way it fell to me from

(01:28:01):
a keep away from COVID nineteen to to economic keep away.
And I feel like that's what these governors in these
blue states are really trying to execute right now. And
it almost feels like they're trying to exact punishment on
only Trump supporters, but really just on you pursuing your
livelihood in the way that you want to pursue it.
And you know, as I travel the country, I'm probably

(01:28:24):
the hyer bretat Thumberg. I'm an airline pilot for a
living m So many people want to get back to work,
uh that it is unbelievable. And the the the idea
that these governors keep trying to keep everything locked down
just makes it so obvious what their what their play
is here, and I do fear that they're going to
try this again and again. You know what's to stop

(01:28:44):
them from saying, oh, we have a you know what,
we have a climate emergency today. We better better go
hurry back into lockdown, right right? I think that's true.
This is an unprecedented power that they've taken, this whole
idea that and suddenly I used to like it all
the you know, fifty seven identities. Oh I'm gay, I
oh really, I'm intersexual, I'm transgender, whereas now the only

(01:29:07):
two identities are essential and non essential. And this idea
that the state gets to determine which jobs are essential
and which are non essential is absolutely ludicrous, contradictory. It's
apparently okay to buy yourself a pair of frilly knickers
in Walmart, but it's not to go to a small

(01:29:28):
momern pop clothing store and buy one. There is no
legal basis, there is no scientific basis, There is no
healthcare basis for the distinctions that these guys have drawn
up Clay. And it's actually, in a sense it is
bigger than the economy now, but just because it's life.
It's actually life. It's even if you accepted that you

(01:29:51):
had a non essential job and you had enough savings,
which most people don't so that you can afford to
have no money for three months. You can't keep nobody
in tyranny. Tokville made this point in democracy in America
that even in the old days of the most tyrannical emperor,
the emperor couldn't actually tell some guy living in some

(01:30:15):
farm two hundred miles from the capital that you're forbidden
from leaving your home. What's happened these last couple of months,
and the eagerness with which these powers have been used,
So you get these little spats between governors in Maine
and Michigan and New Jersey in other places where some
guy who's just got a hair salon or some guy

(01:30:36):
who's just got a bar and restaurant is in a
fight with the governor because the governor has decreed that
he has to be impoverished. He hasn't got anything, but
he's got to be impoverished. Anyway. This is something entirely
new clay, and it's it's it's not good, And if
they get used to this, they will use it again

(01:30:57):
next time around, which is which is the point I
was making about nine eleven, that the emergency measures become
permanent and we all shuffle like a big bovine herd
through them. Thank you, thank you, thank you for that,
Thank you for that call, Clay. It's important to be
reminded of them. You know. They talked about this was
the strategy at one point, that we would develop herd immunity.

(01:31:21):
What really matters is, actually we have to develop herd
think immunity, because that's that's the idea now. People who
are at like in Los Angeles County, the America's biggest county.
That's basically a social worker who is determining which people
can leave the house. No society in human history has

(01:31:43):
ever mortgaged their liberty to someone so unqualified to administer it.
It's absolutely and it's absolutely incredible. We need herd think
immunity so that we immunize ourselves against turning ourselves into
a great bovine herd. Yeah. Great to be with you.
Rush is out today and tomorrow you will be in

(01:32:07):
the more than capable hands. They're not that capable, but
he's actually latex gloved them, so they are surgically and
medically and corona compliant. You'll be in the latex hands
of Ken Matthews from the Great State of Pennsylvania. It's
always a pleasure to enjoy listening to Ken and you'll

(01:32:28):
be able to do so for three hours tomorrow. And
Rush himself says there's a fifty fifty chance he's going
to be back on Wednesday. If it's not him, it'll
be Doc Fauci, it'll be scarf tips from Deborah Burks,
it'll be one one or the other. Want to mention,
just to go back to that theme, we were talking

(01:32:48):
about the new authoritarianism as it were, which is what
happened after nine eleven. We somehow got used to the
fact that nobody checks whether they pilot coming into go
and train at Pensacola, whether he's got a five year
g had record of being hot for the Alcada guys

(01:33:08):
hot for the ice isis guys. Nobody bothers checking on that.
But on the other hand, you're checked every time you
fly from Cleveland to Des Moines. It's stupid, it's pointless.
Now we're going to reconfigure the security theater and turn
it into Corona theater where you're going to be disinfected.
Whether you go to the airport, you might have taken
blood test, you might have your thermometer, take your temperature,

(01:33:31):
and all the rest of it. Meanwhile, we have seen
just in the last couple of months incredible restrictions. There's
a constitutional right to freedom of religion, apparently, and but
you never know it from the clam from the fact
that you've got police at issuing fines to people parked

(01:33:52):
in a parking lot at safe distances listening to a
church service. So we've had significant strengths on basic rights,
freedom of religion, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, of
which the mask is a symbol. I see from Reuters

(01:34:12):
that state attorneys general are now going to bring antitrust
lawsuits against Google. Apparently a group of state attorneys general
led by Texas are going to file an antitrust lawsuit
against Google. Google also own YouTube for example, and all
the rest of it. And I'm actually in favor of

(01:34:35):
that because I think if we can't if we right
now for example, at YouTube, YouTube took down that video
it had had five million views of two doctors in
California who've actually been treating coronavirus patients and disagreed with
the government on the way it presented itself in patients.

(01:34:56):
So these are guys who are actually treating people with
the thing, and they're saying, well, we saw this in
missus Smith, and we saw that in mister Jones, and
so we take a different view of this from the
government and the WHO, who actually aren't treating mister Smith
and missus Jones. That's what we're doing, and we're seeing
different things. And YouTube, Google YouTube removed it on the

(01:35:19):
grounds that it disagreed with the WHO. So this is
the world we live in now. We have basically a
couple of woke billionaires who control access to the entirety
of human knowledge on the planet, Facebook and the Google YouTube,
and a couple of peripheral players like Twitter one or two,

(01:35:41):
one or two others. And so you have the Chinese
government that uses its sock puppet, the WHO, and the
WHO peddles the Chinese line, and then Google YouTube says,
if you disagree with the WHO line, i e. The
Chinese line, we take your video down, which is what

(01:36:02):
happened to these doctors a week or two back. So
these guys, we are we are witnessing a serious shriveling
of free speech, aided by woke billionaires who are whether
or not you know, and I don't know whether Zuckerberg
is actually buddies with Chairman Z. I do know that

(01:36:25):
these guys have looked at the Chinese market, which is
huge to them, and for whatever reason, have decided that
on a huge number of issues, their view of these
issues miraculously coincides with the Chinese Polite Bureau. Now, the
thing about that is, however, it's just yeah, it's just

(01:36:45):
it's just it's just you. No, No, it's just I know,
it's just the coincidence, mister said. Now, I'm not saying
I'm not saying they're actually on the take from China.
I'm not going there. But for whatever reason, for whatever reason,
the people who control all humid information now happen to
take the view of Chairman G on things like the coronavirus.

(01:37:10):
So this has been an actually an interesting then. And
of course you can say, well, I don't mean I'm
not really interested in Chinese Politburo and coronavirus and all
the rest of it. Okay, we said this a few
a couple of years ago when Facebook YouTube, when they
started doing the bidding of China in the Chinese market,

(01:37:30):
and a couple of us said, well, do you think
the skills they learn in China making the Politburo happy
are going to be confined to China Now, No, they're not.
And again it gets to the big geopolitical thing that's
gone on here. Now was that thirty years ago we
also let China make our T shirts. We'll take We'll
all our patriotic T shirts that we liked to buy

(01:37:51):
at Walmart, these colors don't run and don't tread on me.
Will send China all our T shirt business. And because
they're making our T shirt, they'll become more like us,
and instead we're becoming more like China. And if you don't,
if you don't think so, you know, in fairness to China,
they impose a lockdown on Wuhan, they didn't impose a

(01:38:13):
lockdown on entire continents. We're the ones who did that.
We're the ones who did that. So China hasn't become
more like the free world. The free world has become
more like China. So I'm I'm in favor of this.
I'm in favor of this lawsuit because again I think
we have to get serious about I think we have

(01:38:33):
to get serious about these things. And I don't hear
any you know, one of the things that's admirable about
the nuttiness of the left, for example, is that they're
always playing for the big picture. They like power, and
so whatever happens they see, they look at it in

(01:38:53):
terms of how does this assist us in achieving power?
And so we now have this absurd contradiction whereby the
same people who are in favor of open borders for
the six billion people who don't live in the developed world,
they're in favor of open borders for the United States

(01:39:15):
and famous favor of open borders for Europe, are also
are simultaneously in favor of having the tightest borders that
have ever been known for their own citizens. So the
rio grand is open, but you've got like a security
perimeter around your house and build a Blasio and Andrew
Cuomo and Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom and all the

(01:39:39):
rest of them don't want to let you out of
your house how long. At some point, at some point
the institutional right has to, by which I mean the
congressional guys and the conservative in guys, they've got they've
got a look at what the left. The left winds
by never losing sight of what advantages itself. So that's

(01:40:03):
why you know, they just put a new name. And
what's the stupid name for Nancy Pelosi's thing, the hero's bill.
They always find some cute acronym for whatever bill it is,
but when you look at it, it's always the same
bill for the same as Mitch McConnell says, Oh, as,
this is just the same old liberal wishless Yes, that's right,
because they know where they're going and they're getting there.

(01:40:24):
And I'm terribly worried that what happened in nine to
eleven where the terrorists the terrorists essentially one you know,
like this Pensacola press conference that the Bill Barr and
the FBI guy Ray, we're just doing the war, the
so called war on terror. When was the last time

(01:40:46):
you you actually gave a thought to the war on terror?
It's kind of where running around Afghanistan and the guys
we train are shooting up our men, and but most
people don't actually think about the war on terror anymore
because in truth, we don't have any strategic goals, We
don't have any strategic clarity about what we're fighting and

(01:41:09):
how to defeat them. But at the same time, if
you say to people, well, because of the war on terror,
we need to be able. We need to give the
NSA powers to monitor every single email and telephone call
on the planet. But don't worry, it's not gonna be
turned on you. It's not gonna be turned on you.

(01:41:29):
Look at Michael Flynn. How many people? How many people
were unmasking? It always only our national security Oh yeah,
like the Samantha Power, the ambassador to the u N
So suddenly she's a big national security honchos, don't they.
I think it was an Italian ambassador, some other ambassador

(01:41:50):
was unmasking Michael Finn. It's like dozens of people just
unmasking Michael Flynn. Do you think that stops with Michael Flynn?
So we have like a twenty four seven security state
for American citizens, and meanwhile, gehad boy in the Royal
Saudi Arabian Air Force still gets to come to Pensacola
and kill Americans. What's wrong with this picture? And what

(01:42:13):
makes you think they won't just do that with the
next thing? Yes, mister Snurdley, Oh yeah, Google, Oh yeah, oh,
mister Snurdley says Google has just called and said Google
myself after tonight. Yeah, I think the algorithm might have

(01:42:33):
been subtly adjusted to show me in that bondage dungeon
in Amsterdam I visited a few years ago. Google's got
the goods on all of us. Mark Sided for us
your calls straight Ahead, Mark Stein for Rush on America's
number one radio show, Let us go to gym in
beautiful Palm Springs in the California Desert. Jim your Live

(01:42:56):
on the Russia Limbus Show. Great have you with us? Mark?
Weve your humor and you're insightful observations. A matter of fact,
I find find myself quoting you often with your alturney
is arbitrary. I just think that's brilliant. Yeah, don't don't
use that line in California, though, because because they're they're
taking that seriously and they're actually implementing it, that's the problem. Well,

(01:43:19):
whenever I use it, I usually do it a to
a face with a glossy stare on it, so it's
it doesn't work at any rate. I really had one
main point that I wanted to cover or that will cover,
and that is that I think a grown up or
a critical thinker will take some something valuable from every

(01:43:41):
experience in their life. And I think if there is
one thing to be taken from this Wuhan virus uh
intestation or whatever we call it, is that government run
medical care does not work right. And because you're you're
basing that on just what you've seen in New York

(01:44:02):
State and all the other where they've made basically where
Cuomo ordered care homes to take sick people, and the
sick people then made everywhere. Yeah, I take I take
that point. So you think that's like the take home
from what we've been witnessing the last three months, it
should be. Yeah, when you even with competence at the

(01:44:22):
top and now you and you think back over the
incompetence that we've experienced over our political history, and even
with competence at the top, that believe me, the bureaucrats
will muck it up. So it's just it doesn't work well.
I think that's the critical feature here, Jim, is that
it's we now have government public health. And as Rush

(01:44:43):
was saying on Friday, it turns out that public health
is just one of those things that's been corrupted by
left wing politics like everything else. And I think one
of the reasons is they that you don't have the
beauty of private leaving it to the private sector, is
that a thousand flowers can bloom. And if you look

(01:45:05):
at again, if you go back to the Great Plague
in sixteen sixty five, they had all these people wandering
around the streets with different theories on this and different
theories on that. What we've had now is like one
size fits all. So every night you switch on the
Telly and Fouch's telling you there's no need for Maskmaster.
Were Okay, well we do need more ventilators, so we've
got to get more ventilators to New York. Okay, so

(01:45:27):
we've got to need more ventilator. Then it turns out
the ventilators are way you go to die. We don't
actually need ventilators. What the problem is is this idea
that you can just dictate one size fits all by
having a guy who is by having like a public
public health gods, just dictating to the planet. And I

(01:45:49):
think that has been I think that's been disastrous. And
what we actually need is more voices, not less, as
Google is doing. Are you staying safe at what's it
like in Palm Springs, by the way, it's it's all
It's it's pretty safe. There is it? Easy? Peasy My
main home is in Los Angeles, and oh this is

(01:46:10):
this is another home down here and come down here,
and there is sanity all around. I mean a few
of the crazies with a mask walk. Yeah dog, you'll
see people cross the street with massive rubber gloves on
in one hundred temperatures like whatever. But but the set
there seems to be far more sanity here than Los Angeles.
So oh well, that's that's that's what I love. Palm Springs.

(01:46:32):
I think the last time I was is that what's
that called the Thunderbird Country Club. I think it's the
one founded by being closeby. I think that's the one
I was speaking at ye with this whole hysteria going,
and I just refused to participate. So that's that's why
I am on it. So oh okay, that's that's. Uh,
that's good to know. Jim. That's Jim in Palm Springs. Yeah,
I think this is I'm just looking at this thing

(01:46:54):
here from China, which is called Trump, Pompeo and Peter Navarro,
who I rather, I think I've liked him in this thing.
They're calling them the Lying Trio, so they're like the
three Tenors. Now they should actually call them the three liars,
and they could go out and sing finicular, funicular or whatever.
That's Sir China's view, Trump, Pompeo, and Navarro. That's the

(01:47:18):
ones they're scared of. We'll close it out in a moment.
Mark Stein in for Rush on America's number one radio show.
You know, just before we closed it out here, I
said a few weeks ago when I was here, the
one good thing was that we weren't hearing about all
the usual identity politics rubbish that we normally hear about them.
So the great thing about this killer virus is it

(01:47:38):
managed to make all that go away that actually isn't true.
I saw a story in the UK press the other
day that transgender persons are now worried that they're going
to be buried under the wrong gender. They're going to
call the Pennsylvania Health was accusing some guy, maybe some

(01:48:03):
friend of Ken Matthews, of mis gendering her. People are
now worried in Britain that if you get the virus,
you're going to be misgendered in death. The great key
to we waste all our time talking about rubbish like that,
And right now while we're talking rubbish China is taking
over the planet, so we should stop talking rubbish and

(01:48:24):
maybe start talking about China and act like grown ups.
That's that's my final thought in this day. I'm off
Ken Matthews is going to be hosting tomorrow. I don't know.
If Rush isn't here, We're going to have some new
guests host for you Wednesday. Maybe one of those South
Korean sex dolls that fill up the seats of football stadiums.

(01:48:45):
Have a great day. Rushback later in the week.

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