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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.
Welcome to the Russia Limba Program. I'm Michael Knowles filling
in and it is a great honor to be here
behind the golden EIB microphone, and especially great honor because
I get to speak with you today. It is Friday,
and I think you know what that means. From the

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Left coast that are satellite studios in Los Angeles, it's
open line Friday. You know. I really want to thank
Rush and the whole team here. It is just so
great to be here. It's a dream come true. I
just couldn't be happier. But there is one downside. I
realized there is just one downside, which is doing this

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show today is definitely gonna put me on the list.
You know the list. If you haven't heard about the list,
you will soon find out about the list when you
find yourself on it. That is the list that Democrats
are putting together of all of their political enemies who
supported President Trump. And make no mistake, this is happening

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right now. You might be saying, Michael, you sound like
some crazy conspiracy theorist. You, Michael, you sound like you
have tinfoil hat on I'm not I actually sound like
a guy who is reading the twitter feed of Alexandria
Ocasio Cortez and reading the twitter feed of CNN's Jake Tapper,
and reading the twitter feed of the Trump Accountability Project.

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How scary does that sound. We've been hearing a lot
of talk recently about how we need to come together,
we need to unify, we need harmony, we need healing,
and by the way, we also need to concede a
presidential election before the legal process plays out. That's the
undercurrent to all of it. They say, look, we want
to just come together and have healing, and yet when

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you listen closely to what they're saying, I don't think
healing is what the left wants. Definitely not for you
and me. In case you missed it, aoc tweeted out
this week quote, is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for
when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in
the future. I foresee decent probability of many deleted tweets, writings,

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photos in the future. Why what complicity with what we
voted for a Republican and we had some conservative government
for four years now, Hopefully we'll get eight years of it?
What is that complicity? What is the thread here? What
are they going to do to us? Not just AOC,
you might say, Okay, AOC does something. She's so crazy,
she's so fringe. Never Mind that the DNC's Tom Perez

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says that she's the future of the Democratic Party. Ignore
that for a second. Maybe she's just a kind of
crazy person. Well then you look at Jake Tapper. Jake
Tapper always presents himself as the reasonable liberal journalists, you know,
his center left. He's just calling it like it is.
He's the only honest guy left in broadcast. Well, here's

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what Jake Tapper had to say. He said, quote, I
truly sympathize with those with losing It's not easy, but
at a certain point one has to think not only
about what's best for the nation peaceful transfer of power,
but how many future employers might see your character defined
during adversity. What he's saying is, if you continue to

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support President Donald Trump, we're going to ruin your life.
We're going to ruin your livelihood. We're going to kick
you out of your job. We're going to make sure
that you never get a job again. But he's just
concerned for all of us. Look, he understands, he is
truly sympathetic for those who are dealing with losing. Well,
I have to tell you something. I truly sympathize that

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some Democrats right now want to rush through the legal
process and not have any recounts and not have any
examinations of the many irregularities that went on in Pennsylvania
and in Arizona, and in Georgia and in Wisconsin. I
totally have sympathy for that. But we do have a
legal process in this country for selecting presidents, and we
are not going to let leftist journalists on cable news

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bully us into submission, bully us into giving up before
that process played out. I don't remember was Jake Tapper
pressuring Democrats to give up the two thousand election, which
dragged on for what thirty eight days? Somehow, I don't know,
Maybe it slipped my memory, but I don't remember that
from CNN or Jake Tapper or anybody else. And it's

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not just those two. It's not just AOC, it's not
just CNN. Do you remember mister egg McMuffin. Mister His
legal name I believe is Evan McMullen. He was supposed
to be the spoiler candidate in twenty sixteen. He was
going to be the conservative, you see, because you had
the Democrat Hillary Clinton, and you had this crazy figure

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who's he's probably not conservative and he's going to overthrow
the country and he's an authoritarian fascist, Donald Trump. And
then you had the good, respectable, honorable conservative candidate, mister
egg McMuffin. Then it turned out he wasn't all that conservative,
was he He? No? I mean, hey, what had he worked?
He worked for the CIA, So he's a career spook.

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That okay, that's the first warning. Then he worked on
the hill. Okay, he worked for the Republicans on the hill.
That can be a good thing, that can be a
terrible thing. And then he tried to undermine the Republican
nominee for president. And now now he is mimicking AOC
and Jake Tapper. Mister McMuffin tweets out quote, we should

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keep and publish a list of everyone who assists Trump's
frivolous and dangerous attacks on the election, name and shame forever.
The CIA's conservative alternative in twenty sixteen is the most
radical and vindictive person coming out now trying to get

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us to concede this election. All of this is part
of something that is named the Orwellian title, the Trump
Accountability Project. They head low you can go to this website.
I don't encourage you to, but you can go to
the Trump Accountability Project. The headline says, remember what they did?
What did they do? They got a peace deal between

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the Arab States and Israel. I'll remember what they did.
Remember what they did. They lowered taxes. Remember what they did.
They dealt very well with the coronavirus. Remember what they did.
They renegotiated trade deals. No, that's not what they're talking about.
The Trump Accountability Project says, we must never forget those
who furthered the Trump agenda. We should welcome in our

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fellow Americans with whom we differ politically. But you know,
butts Negate sentences, so there's the big butt. But those
who took a paycheck from the Trump administration should not
profit from their efforts to tear our democracy apart. You
notice that when people go to the polls and they
vote for Democrats, that is a wonderful exercise of democracy.

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When the people go to the polls and they vote
for Republicans. That is undermining democracy. And actually the only
way to support democracy is to overturn that democratic vote,
which is what the Democrats tried to do for years.
The Accountability Project goes on, the world should never forget
those who, when faced with a decision, chose to put
their money, their time, and their reputations behind separating children

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from their families. You know that policy that goes back
to the Clinton administration, in the alleged cages that go
back to the Obama administration. Well that's what Trump did, apparently,
who encouraged racism and anti Semitism. I'll remind you there's
a town in Israel named after Donald Trump. He is
I suppose the least effect of anti Semite in human history.
And they say negligently causing the unnecessary loss of life

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and economic devastation from our country's failed response to the
COVID nineteen pandemic. Acclaim based on nothing. We should not
allow the following groups of people to profit from their experience.
And here are the three groups they name, those who
elected him, those who staffed his government, and those who
funded him, namely, anybody who in any way supported Donald Trump.

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These guys, and it's bipartisan. Don't forget they've got the
alleged conservative candidate from twenty sixteen. Some Republicans, the never trumpers,
and Democrats are trying to ruin all of our lives.
This is not, by the way, just at the national
political level. This goes all the way down through the institutions.
This goes all the way down, I suppose, especially to

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college campuses. Bates College in Maine. Bates College in Maine.
Maybe you haven't heard of it. I'm sure the mainstream
media haven't reported on this. At Bates College in Maine,
the school decided to do a series about students voting
in the twenty twenty election. It was very simple. The
school post photos of various student leaders different organizations, and

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they're all Democrats. You know, that's sort of what you
expect on a college campus. But the administration made one
huge mistake. They posted a photo of a Republican. That's right,
the head of the college. Republicans went up on the website.
This led to protests, This led to rallies, This led

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to mayhem and chaos. The liberal students demanded that the
administration take down this photo. Do you know who attended
the rally the president of the college. The president of
the college showed up with the students to protest his
own administration. This would be what we call the inmates
running the asylum. I believe the school officials deleted the post.

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They apologized for highlighting this conservative student. They will never
have a Republican up there again. This is the future
that we're looking at this presidential election. I know it's
crazy that I even have to repeat it. It has
not been decided. We do not have a certified winner yet,
we do not have a president elect. They're going to
try to battle this out in Georgia so that they

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can deprive Republicans of control, possibly the Senate. This has
a lot of meaning. The left is trying to fool
you right now. They're trying to tell you, oh, no
big deal, can see that's fine, We'll be totally moderate.
They don't sound very moderate to me. We've got to
take a quick break. Don't go anywhere. I'm Michael Knowles
sitting in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network. We'll
be right back. Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program.

(10:08):
I'm Michael Knowles filling in and today is open line Friday.
What a great data be on this show. Many thanks
to Rush for letting me sit in the telephone number
here is one eight hundred two eight two two eight
eight two. That number again, eight hundred two eight two.
I want to get to your calls. Let's turn now

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to Sam. Hi. Michael, Hello, Michael, can you hear me? Hello? Hello,

(10:54):
contested that the Democrats are trying Hello. Well, hey, Sam,
are you on the air? Yeah? Can hear me? I can't.
I can now hear you. And that's very good because

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you've interrupted my own doomsday scenario and we've had enough
of that over the past two weeks. So I need
I need a little levity. Sam, What do you want
to talk about? Yeah, Um, I'd like to talk. I'd
like to make a quick point about the unscrupulous media.
And as you know, it's it's the anniversary of Kristnach
this week and as an Orthodox du it's it's high time,

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you know, to quote the great Chank Eiger that we
stopped playing patty cakes with the media, particularly because this
yesterday Christiana Amampur said that that in that the rise
of fascism is happening, and Trump is the similar rise
of fascism. It's time we stop with with trampling the
graves and the memory of the six million Jews we

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lost in the Holocaust for political grandstanding. I'm sorry, but
it's time that it's time we fight back against this.
Maybe we bring back truth or volt over at the
Daily Wire. I don't know what needs to happen. I
trust your I trust your stagey wisdom for that wisdom
of Russia, Limbob, but I don't know what your thoughts are.

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But it's it's high time we fight back scary that's
gone on over in Arizona, which is right now, they're
still trying to tabulate the votes in Arizona. Biden's lead
has been shrinking. The Arizona Secretary of State is supposed
to be certifying those results, and yet I just pulled
up a tweet from the Arizona Secretary of State. Her
name is Katie Hobbs. Turns out that a few years

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ago she referred to President Trump's supporters as neo Nazis.
And she didn't say that just some of President trump
supporters are neo Nazis. She didn't say that it's a minority.
She said that Trump's base or neo Nazis. The problem
with this is not just the hyperbole. It's not just
that it's so disrespectful to Jews in particular. Of course,

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you're justified to cheat, aren't you. Of course, if you're
a poll worker, maybe you would feel justified in cheating
on a ballot. If you're running an election center in Philadelphia,
for instance, you would feel justified in not allowing Republican
poll watchers to show up. If you are certifying election
results in Arizona. I don't know. I'm not accusing her
of anything. I'm just pointing out she referred to the

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Trump base as neo Nazis. Now, anybody with two brain
cells to rub together would know probably there aren't seventy
one or seventy two million neo Nazis in the United States, right.
I don't think this is a country teeming with these
hilarian people. But if the left does believe that, that
is a way that they could justify their own actions.

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We've been hearing about a lot of irregularities coming out
of this election. That is a soft term for fraud.
Now is it enough to throw the election? I'm not
so sure. We'll find out there's gonna be a legal
process playing out. We're going to be speaking to Rudy Giuliani,
later President Trump's lawyer and former mayor of New York.
We're going to be speaking to Ted Cruz, who is

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really taking this fight to the Democrats in the Senate.
We're going to see how the legal process will play out.
The one thing I do know, though, is this kind
of rhetoric which you don't really see from the right
to the left. We don't accuse them of being communists. Well,
I guess why. When they admitted their communists, we do
accuse them of that. When they admitted their socialists, we do.
We do accuse them of that. But we don't malign

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them in a way that they malign us, and that
could easily justify cheating. I don't want you to be
fooled about the actual stakes of this election. Here. The
other day, Joe Mansion, who's the I guess relatively conservative
Democrat from West Virginia. He's certainly more moderate than saying AOC.
He has to be, otherwise he wouldn't get elected there.

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Joe Mansion went on Fox News and he came out
and he said, listen, I will vote against the radical
legislation that are the Democrats are proposing. I will vote
against ending the filibuster. I will vote against adding Puerto
Rico and Washington d C as states, giving Democrats a
permanent majority. I will vote against Medicare for all. Right,

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and he promises this this, and that sounds terrific. Don't
fall forward, folks. What he's really saying is, don't push
back against the attempts to claim this election before it's over.
Don't fight back on the runoffs in Georgia. These runoffs
in Georgia could easily decide the election. Just it's okay.

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Let the Republicans lose their Senate majority. Let Donald Trump
lose the election. I promise you we won't do anything
too bad. Well, I promise you something very different. If
the Democrats do erase the Republican majority, if Joe Biden
doesn't send to the presidency, you are going to see
a slew of radical legislation. Now, are you going to
see the radical legislation? Because Joe Biden himself is some radical. No,

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Joe Biden is nothing. That has been the hallmark of
his political career. Joe Biden wakes up in the morning,
he licks his index finger, he puts it up in
the air and he waits to see which way the
wind blows. Now, for the nineteen seventies and eighties, the
wind was blowing a little bit to the right, and
so he positioned himself as relatively modern candidate. But then

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the two thousands rolled around ten hour and twenty twenty
all of a sudden, the future of the Democratic Party,
the DNC tells us, is socialism, and so he is
running to the left. You saw it most notably on abortion.
He had been relatively conservative for a Democrat that he
has shifted to the left. The Democrats have told us
what they're going to do. They want the Green New Deal.
The Green New Deal is what a ninety three trillion

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dollar plan was proposed by AOC. But it's not just AOC.
The potential Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris,
was a Senate co sponsor of that bill. You really
think that Joe Biden doddering, crooked Joe Biden, he's going
to be the one to say no, we won't have
that radical legislation. You really think Joe Mansion is going

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to stand up to the rest of the Senate Democrats.
He's going to stand up to the radical Democrats in
the House. He's going to stand up to the bureaucracy
and the media and the activist no way, no Waybuster.
They're trying to pull one over on you. And it
has to do specifically with this Georgia election. We've got
a major runoff going on now. So some good news,

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you know, amid all of this awful news. The good
news is the Georgia's Secretary of State, Brad Raffensburger, said
on Wednesday that the state will conduct a buy hand
recount in each county in Georgia. They're specifically going to
take an r LA, and what an RLA is is
a risk limiting audit, so it's a it's a fuller
type of recount. They're not just going to go through

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the computer systems and say, okay, this is how it's
going to work. This is going to be full. But
there's some bad news coming. There's some worries down the line.
We've got to take a quick break. We will get
to it in just a second. I'm an Old Sivellien
for the Rush Limbaugh Show. Welcome back to the Russia
Limball Program. I'm Michael Knowles, filling in. It is open
line Friday, but I believe the nefarious forces of liberalism

(18:12):
are trying to stop us from having our open line Friday.
Apologies to Sam in the last segment. We try to
speak with him, but you know, I am out here
on the left coast today. I am apart from Southern
Command over in sunny South Florida, and somewhere the wires
got crossed. You could blame Friday the thirteenth, You could
blame the blob, the deep state, some awful Democratic operatives

(18:36):
or something. But for whatever reason, we are working on
getting that technical problem fixed. In the meantime, I do
have America's mayor on the line, Rudy Giuliani, greatest mayor
in the history of New York City and also attorney
to President Trump. A lot of us are paying very
very close attention to what's going on right now in

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all of the contested states for the presidential election, most
notably the Big Cahuna Pennsylvania. Nobody is paying more attention
to that than Mayor Giuliani. Mayor Giuliani, thank you so
much for coming on the program. Well, thank you, Michael,
A pleasure. So, mister Mayor, let's get right to it.
What can you share with us today with regard to
what is happening in Pennsylvania. I know that people are

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getting a lot of information, and some of it's true,
some of its faults, and a lot of it is
being suppressed. So what are we seeing on the ground there. Well,
here's what's going on, and you are right, a lot
is being suppressed. We filed a lawsuit the other day.
It's supported by over fifty witnesses, all with affidavits underrows.
So it's based on very very solid evidence that people

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are ready to testify to. And just to simplify it,
the major thrust of the lawsuit is that Republican inspectors
we're not allowed to inspect any of the male in ballots,
contrary to the law of Pennsylvania and contrary to the
law of absentee ballots, which has existed forever. I mean,

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I've been in many elections where you count absentee ballots,
then you have a Republican and a Democrat observed the ballot.
In this particular case, it was really important to have
an observer because we were going to go to a million,
two millions mail in ballots, when usually we have one
hundred thousand or two hundred thousand, but they made it

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especially important that they be observed because the minute that
you separate the ballot from the envelope, it could no
longer be checked. The only two chance you get, the
only chance you get to check if it's a valid
vote by a valid living person who's registered, is when
you have the envelope and both sides get to see it,

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and then we agree it's a valid vote. Once you
take it out of the envelope and you put it
in the vote pile, it's an anonymous, private vote. There's
no way to reconnect them. So what the Democrats did
very shrewdly. They excluded forty seven of our inspectives in
Pennsylvan in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is a crooked Democratic city

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that cheets in every election, and even when we went
to court, they wouldn't let us get close enough to
see it. They did the same thing in Pittsburgh, not
for the whole day, they did it just for the
first day. So in Pennsylvania there are six hundred and
twenty three thousand ballots that are unlawful. They were submitted
without any inspection as to authenticity and they are deemed

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therefore unlawful, and the state legislature gets to decide the winner,
not ABC or CBS, and those votes should be deducted.
And when you deduct those votes, Trump wins by pretty
close to what are you actually won by, which is
about three hundred thousand votes. That is a huge number

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when we're you know, we usually when we talk about
invalidating votes, you know you're talking about very very few
hundreds or thousands. But I think what's important, and the
media keeps skipping over in this election, is we are
in unprecedented territory in this country. We have never had
widespread unsolicited mail in ballots. We've had absentee ballots that
you can request and there is a little more security

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around that, but you have this very vulnerable new system
and then, as you say, republican poll watchers not being
permitted to look at the polls, and that's how you
can wind up with these huge numbers of votes that
ought to be deemed invalid. So the question, mister mayor
will they be deemed invalid? Well, that's the question for
the court. But what we are going to be able

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to do is to show didn't just happen in Pennsylvania.
We have a almost the same lawsuit in Michigan, two
of them, one of the state court, one of the
federal court, in which in Michigan we now are up
to about three hundred thousand ballots that were unlawful. In Michigan.
It's additionally, it's a crime to exclude an inspector. So

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the people who did it committed crimes. And we where
we have two witnesses, i'm sorry, three witnesses with affidavits
that at four o'clock in the morning, one hundred thousand
ballots were brought in after everyone thought that all the
mail ballots had been counting. One hundred thousand ballots were
brought in the back door. They were counted furiously because

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they didn't want Trump to be ahead in the morning.
So Trump began at the beginning of the night with
a three hundred thousand vote lead, and by the morning
he was losing to Biden. And most of those votes
were were accounted after four thirty in the morning, and
our witnesses say they were all for Biden, and to

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the extent they could see those ballots, those ballots only
had Biden's name on it. No down ballot voting, which
indicates they were done in, you know, in a furiously
fast way. Because what happened, Michael is I believe it
was always part of the Democratic plan to have phony

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mail in ballots to make up for whatever lead Trump
had on election day, which is why Hillary was saying,
you know, don't conceive and Biden was saying he wasn't
going to conceive. But they never imagined that he was
going to be ahead in Pennsylvania by eight hundred thousand votes,
and they never imagined he'd be ahead in Michigan by
three hundred thousand, So they had to do a lot,

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a lot of printing, not printing, but checking off of
ballots that night, and in the case of Michigan, they
got really sloppy. By bringing in these three hundred thousand votes,
they thought they had cleared the room, but there remained
behind two Republican inspectors and an employee and an employee
of the Dominion company who has basically decided that she

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can't stand over cheating that she saw, and therefore I
had to testify about it. Well, I'd like to ask you,
mister Mayor, about Dominion in particular, because I know that
there are a lot of questions about this software, and
the mainstream media are working overtime to say there's no
question whatsoever, it's no big deal, it's perfectly fair, it's
perfectly safe. You're saying that employees at Dominion are contradicting

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that media narrative. Dominion has a terrible record. It was
turned down by the state of Texas because of its
incompetent performance in the past. But if you ever did
a background check on it, you would never use it.
Dominion really uses a software from a company called calls

(25:42):
Are smart Magic. Smart Magic smart Madic is a company
that was founded in two thousand and three two thousand
and four by several Venezuelans who were close to Hugo
Chaves and its original history was how to cheat in
Venezuela and then Argentina. Smart Maddock was run by a

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close associate of George Soros for quite some time. And
when you're having your votes counted by Dominion, they're actually
being counted by smart Maddic, to which they subcontracted, and
they send the votes outside the United States for counting. Now,
why we're having American votes counted outside the country by

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a company that's owned by two southeasters and is connected
to George Sorrows. Well, we've got to be out of
our minds. Of course, it doesn't take care. Yes, it
doesn't make any sense in that way. It makes us
feel sometimes when when this election can't be concluded in
appropriate way, makes us feel like we're living in Venezuela

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or some Banana republic. Very quickly, mister mayor, I know
you've spoken with the President. The President has not been
you know, too public. He's and sending tweets, but has
not been holding ratleis or press conferences or things like
that recently. What is his frame of mind today? His
frame of mine is excellent. I talked to him twice
this morning. His frame of mind is vintage Donald Trump.

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He has all this evidence, much of it has been
censored and suppressed by a press that's gone into oh
I provably used to be for the Communist Party, or
like the news service in China is for the Chinese
Communist Party. Since the Hunter Biden hard drive appeared, which

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proves that the Bidens are you know, thirty year crooks.
They print no news. I mean, we're just shut out.
None of the things I said to you appear in
any any of the newspapers that are controlled by the
Democrat Party. Yea. So we have to get this information
out on social media, on a few of the conservative

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networks like OAM and Newsmax, and then on shows like this,
you know, talk radio. I mean I've been I've been
on more local radio stations than I have in my
whole life in the last three weeks. Well, I'm very glad,
mister Mayor, that you you would be able to bring
this information which is being suppressed to the largest talk
radio show in the country because we're not getting that information.

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One place that you can get this kind of information, though,
and I would highly recommend it would be Mayor Giuliani's
podcast Common Sense. I was so pleased, mister Mayor when
I saw that you launched this project. We have got
to take a break now, but mister Mayor, thank you
so much for coming on. Please keep up the fight
and we'll look forward to us and my prayers. Okay, absolutely,

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we'll do that, mister Mayor, thank you so much. I'm
Michael Nols filling in for Russia Limball on the EIB network.
We got to take a quick break, but do not
go anywhere welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program. I'm
Michael Knowles filling in and it is open line Friday.
I do not care what the technical gods that command
this earth want to do. We are going to get

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your calls in. I don't care how many technical glitches
they try to they try to voice on us. The
number is one, eight hundred two eight two to eight
eight to eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
Let's turn out to Susan in Florida. Susan, welcome to
the program. Thank you. Yes, I am Susan from Citrus County, Florida,

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and I just want to let you know that I
worked for many many years with a Board of Elections
here in this state, and I was in Brower County
when the Chad issue came up, and when they started
talking about mail in ballot several months ago, I came
up with a theory only based on what my experience was,

(29:57):
which was a good experience in the new county. Then
they could have easily taken empty ballots, blank ballots marked
the minor races, but left the presidential race blank. Folded
up those ballots, put them in an envelope postmarked that

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envelope and put all of those at those ballots into
a room, a basement or wherever for convenience sake in
the event that they needed to put some choices in
for mister Biden. And then when November third came and
everybody started voting and those votes started coming in for Trump,

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they said, oh, oh, we're in trouble. Go get those
ballots that we didn't mark the presidency. And they opened
those ballots and then went ahead and filled in just
the president's selection, which they because there's no other record
explanation why one hundred thousand, or even two hundred thousand,

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or even ten thousand ballots which come in simply for
one candidate. Well, this is the problem. So this is
the problem with the widespread unsolicited mail in ballots is
we don't know what happened. We know that this particular system,
which has never been tried before in America, is rife

(31:25):
for abuse. I remember this was right before the election.
The Attorney General of Pennsylvania called the election for Biden.
This was before election day. He said, I have no
doubt that when all the ballots are counted, Joe Biden
is going to win. And I thought, well, perhaps you
don't have any doubt because maybe those ballots are going
to just keep on coming in until it works for you.

(31:47):
We have historically had ballot stuffing in America. We have
historically had some election fraud. It most notably, by the way,
in the case of President Lyndon Johnson. A lot of
people don't remember this. Nineteen forty eight, Lyndon Johnson he
was in a Senate race and he was running against
Coke Stevenson, and there were a million ballots cast a

(32:08):
million ballots, and Lyndon Johnson won by guess how many
eighty seven votes. Gosh, that is a slim margin. Well,
how did he manage that? Decades later it came out
that there were a number of very crooked counties in Texas.
There was one county in particular, that found a ballot box,
box thirteen, that was just stuffed full of ballots for

(32:30):
who for Lyndon Johnson. These ballots were written in the
same pen that they were written in the same handwriting.
It was so obvious that it was a fraud. The
case actually went up to the Supreme Court, and the
Supreme Court did not want to rule on this state election,
and Lyndon Johnson got his seat, and then obviously he
ended up becoming vice president. Then he became president. And
in nineteen ninety Robert Carrow, the biographer, came up with

(32:51):
basically irrefutable proof that this happened. And okay, Lyndon Johnson
got caught. He was already dead. Lyndon Johnson got got
he'd alread served in the Senate, he'd already transformed our
country as president. Too little, too late, we know these
things happened. He actually Lyndon Johnson joked about this with
Franklin Roosevelt because Lyndon Johnson, this guy had been stealing

(33:12):
elections since college. He actually he stole elections in college.
He then when he was a staffer on the Hill,
he was in something called the Little Congress. This was
just a club for staffers. He stole the presidency of
the Little Congress. And some of his colleagues there said,
could you imagine how crazy, how sociopathic you would have
to be to steal the presidency of the Little Congress.

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So in nineteen forty one he runs for a Senate
and he loses, not because he didn't cheat, but because
his opponent cheated better than he did. Well, he was
not going to get caught again, and Franklin Roosevelt said
to him, Franklin Roosevelt was then the president. He said, Lyndon,
you forgot to sit on the ballot box. You did
everything right, who knows if you stuffed it or you didn't,

(33:53):
but you forgot to sit on it. You forgot to
keep a hold of the count after the election. Well, folks,
it would seem that some people forgot to sit on
the ballot box this time because a lot of ballots
have been coming in very late. And as Mayor Giuliani
pointed out, we were just speaking with Rudy Giuliani. He said,
for some reason, all these Biden ballots keep coming in
in the middle of the night in some places. By

(34:15):
the way, after we were told that the counting had stopped.
You have the GOP chairman in Georgia claiming now and
showing now that counting was supposed to stop at night,
and yet for some reason there were ballots being counted
after that. No pole watchers, no oversight. We don't know
what the extent of this is. That's why there are

(34:36):
lawsuits right now. That's why this is going to work
its way up through the courts. The courts may very
well decide this election, but Susan, I think your experience
is absolutely right in the two thousand election. And just
remember that two thousand election, that was one state that
was contested Bush vigor. Now we've got Bush vigor at
times three times five. I don't think we're going to

(34:58):
give up this election just yet. That was thirty eight
days until al Gore conceded for just one state with
much less evidence of fraud. This is going to work
its way up through the courts much more to get
too many more of your calls to get to do
not go anywhere. I'm Michael Knowles filling in for the
Rush Limbaugh program on the EIB network. Do not touch
the dial. Welcome back to the Russia Limbaugh program. I'm

(35:21):
Michael Knowles filling in. It is a beautiful two hundred
and forty second days since we were told stop the
spread two hundred four. We were told fifteen days to
stop the spread. Now it's two hundred forty two days,
and a Joe Biden COVID advisor says the US just
needs to lock down for four to six weeks and
then they'll control the pandemic and revive the economy. Seems

(35:43):
to me, I've heard that song before, folks and Quomo
saying now you can't have more than ten people at
your Thanksgiving table. God, that's no good. We'll be right back.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program. I'm Michael Knowles
filling in. Such a great privilege to be here behind
the Golden EI microphone, especially on Open Line Friday. You

(36:04):
know earlier in the show from the Left Post that
are satellite studios in Los Angeles. It's open line Friday.
It is They can't stop us. The technical gods try
to stop Open Line Friday, but they are no match
for the EIB network. We will be taking your calls

(36:26):
at numbers eight hundred two eight two to eight eight two.
Call in. I want to hear from you. There is
so much misinformation, disinformation, suppression of information going on right now.
We spoke earlier with Maya Rudy Giuliani about the Trump
legal strategy. Will be speaking a little bit later with
my friend Senator Ted Cruz, one of the few elected

(36:47):
Republicans with a spine these days who is actually standing
up to this ridiculous narrative from the media who were
trying to end the presidential election. Now let's turn to
Jay from Columbia, South Carolina. Jay, Welcome to the program. Michael,
thanks for standing in. I want to know how it

(37:08):
is that Chris Krebs, who's the director of the Cyber
Security Agency, can just outright dismiss Hammer and Operations scorecard
as a hoax and a bunch of nonsense, when Sidney
Powell and General Thomas McInerney have already named its software
developer Dennis Montgomery, who will be testifying on President Trump's

(37:30):
behalf well without getting two into the weeds on exactly
what these kind of various theories on the software are specifically,
because frankly, even I think I don't think anybody knows specifically,
you know, every detail about them. The allegation here is
that there is software that was used in the voting
systems that has illegitimately turned votes that went to President

(37:51):
Trump to Joe Biden. And Sidney Powell is Mike Flynn's attorney.
How it does the bureaucracy come out and attack other
conservative lawyers and conservative actors and even people who have
apparently worked on software. How do they come out and
attack them without evidence? Well, pretty simple they've been doing
it for four years. I love there is this great

(38:13):
irony that happened in twenty twenty, which is we've just
heard from Democrats for four years that Donald Trump is
an illegitimate Manchurian candidate, an asset of the Kremlin and
the KGB. Donald Trump, the guy we've all known for
forty years. He is a secret Russian spy who was
installed because of widespread election fraud in twenty sixteen. Oh

(38:35):
and also, it's not possible for there to be election fraud.
The twenty sixteen election was hacked. It's completely illegitimate because
Russia apparently bought about one hundred thousand dollars worth of
Facebook ads, so that you can't count twenty sixteen. But
also it's not possible to hack an election. That seems
like a contradiction to me. Well, surely, though, Michael, the

(38:56):
bureaucratic agencies, the deep state, the BLOB, they would never
try to interfere in an election, right, Oh, except we
know for a fact that they did. And as you mentioned,
Sidney Powell, they framed Mike Flynn, the incoming National security advisor.
When President Trump won, the BLOB was very shocked by
this he wasn't supposed to win. All the posters told
us ninety seven ninety nine percent chance Sailory wins. Trump wins.

(39:19):
The BLOB is shocked, and they particularly went after Mike
Flynn as the incoming National Security advisor. We now know
that he was set up. We now know that there
were a lot of lies, false predicates for these kinds
of investigations. We know that the lies and false predicates
go all the way back to the campaign trail, when
the Obama administration's bureaucratic agencies were spying on President Trump.

(39:42):
This amounted to and attempted coup data by the bureaucracy
against the president. And now we're to be told don't
look into any computer software. I don't know if the
computer software did anything. What do I know. I'm not
a computer expert. Obviously not. We couldn't even get the
open Line Friday Line to work during the tour. But
here's what I do know. The bureaucracy is not beyond suspicion.

(40:05):
The left has been clamoring about election fraud for now
four years, and we are going to look into this.
And I don't care what some bureaucrat at DHS says
about it. He now, by the way, Chris Krebs is
now saying that he expects to be fired from the
White House. I hope he is. I share. I hope
he is. My one regret from the Trump the first

(40:25):
Trump administration, hopefully there will be a second one. But
my one regret from the first Trump administration is that
he didn't fire more bureaucrats. I wish he could have
gone in in cleaned house. It's very difficult to do.
Just to give you a sense of the size and
scope of the federal bureaucracy, just the Department of Homeland Security.
Do you know how many employees they have? The Department
of Homeland Security, one of the newest agencies in the bureaucracy.

(40:50):
They have over two hundred and twenty thousand employees, almost
a quarter of a million employees just working for one agency.
Is part of this deep blob swamp, administrative state, whatever
you want to call it. And so it's very very
difficult to do that. He might get fired. That's perfectly fine. Republicans.
Conservatives should not go squishy. They should maintain their spines.

(41:12):
I know their spines are in short supply in Washington, DC,
especially among conservatives, but they've got to stand strong. Thank
you very much, Jay for calling in. Let's turn to
Wes in Omaha, Nebraska. Wes, welcome to the program. If well,
forget what was Saleries words to Biden, mind me and

(41:36):
you know in the court, and that's what proofs doing.
That's right, that's right her advice to him. And it's
funny because the Democrats realized they had to walk this
back for the election. But she said on a TV program,
she said, Joe Biden should not concede the election under
any circumstances. Now, I'm thinking of all the circumstances that

(41:57):
could occur, one of them could be that President Trump
obviously wins the election out right. Still, Hillary Clinton's is
do not concede the election under any circumstances. So forgive
us if we think that there might be some shenanigans
in this election. Then we find out that Philadelphia wouldn't
allow Republican poll watchers to come in. Then we find
out that there are irregularities, technical glitches quote unquote that

(42:19):
send thousands of votes from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Michigan.
We find lots of ballots being counted illegally, without pole
watchers in the middle of the night, somehow they go
overwhelmingly for Joe Biden down in Georgia. Forgive us. I
think absolutely you're right. That is Hillary Clinton thought that,
in a moment of honesty, which there are few and

(42:41):
far between in her life, she gave out the Democratic strategy.
And I think right now what President Trump is saying
is We're not going to give this up without a fight.
There is a legal process. The Democrats want to undermine
that legal process. The media want to undermine that legal process.
We're not going to We are going to follow it
until the end. Great question, great comment. Rather, let's turn
to Richard and York County, Pennsylvania, very very important state.

(43:05):
All eyes in America on Pennsylvania right now. Richard, you're
on the air. Hey, good, Thanks for taking my call.
So my thoughts on this is I think I speak
for a lot of people. You know. I was raised
to pledge allegiance to the flag, and now I just
feel like everything that I learned as a kid growing

(43:28):
up about what the United States is, about what we
need to do and how we need to act, is
going is being thrown away. So I'm going to ask
a rhetorical question here. If Trump should not be able
to pull this off, who are we supposed to listen to?

(43:52):
Are we supposed to listen to mister Biden or President Trump? Well,
I would reckon and of course continuing to listen to
President Trump's thoughts on things. I would also recommend listening
to Rush Limbo, by the way, That's who I listened
to for a lot of my political thoughts. But I
think your question is more specific than that. You're saying,
who will be the legitimate president if Joe Biden does

(44:16):
ascend to the presidency. Well, we have a legal process.
And it's funny because now we're invoking that term because
we want to attack the narrative, the media narrative, and
we want to defend our position of pursuing these legal actions.
But the legal process is even broader than that. The
states will certify the election winners. That not CNN will

(44:36):
not do that, the ap will not do that. It
will be the states. There are various mechanisms within the
states to certify the election winners. If there is fraud,
if there's a lot of evidence of fraud, sometimes the
state legislators can step in. There is a case in
which the states don't do their job and this election
is thrown into even greater chaos, and the Constitution has
a mechanism for that. There is a possibility that Joe

(44:57):
Biden will ascend to the presidency, and it might be legitimately,
and it might be with illegitimate votes, and we might
actually never know that. I mentioned a little earlier in
the program that stuffing the ballot box is a tried
and true American tradition. We've had presidents do that before.
Lyndon Johnson admitted to it, Franklin Roosevelt joked about it.
So it's entirely possible that that will happen. Then, dare

(45:19):
I say we will form a resistance by then? If
that eventuality were to occur, I'm sure we would be
told resistance is awful, it's terrible, it's unpatriotic, we can't
do it. One thing I would like to point out, though,
is in years past Republicans and Democrats disagreed over particular issues, taxes, abortion, immigration,
foreign wars, whatever. Something does seem to have changed. Though

(45:43):
it changed with the Colin Kaepernick protests, It changed with
the recent BLM and Antifa riots and looting which is
now we're not both parties are not hugging the American
flag and arguing over how to make our country better.
We're arguing over whether we have a good country at all.
All of the people burning the flags this summer and

(46:03):
today were Joe Biden supporters. They supported Biden over Trump.
I'm not saying all Biden supporters burn the flag, but
rhetorically a great many of them have. They propose the
sixteen nineteen project. They support this idea that America's rotten
to the core, hopelessly rotten. Andrew Cuomo in New York
said America was never great, was never great. To counter

(46:23):
the make American great again line of the Republicans, President
Trump literally hugging a flag at many of his campaign rallies.
We are fighting over love of country itself. And I
think that's why you're seeing a realignment in voting patterns.
You know, the Conservative coalition is changing a lot. You're
getting a lot more of a racial and ethnic minorities,
You're getting more working class voters. You're getting it because

(46:46):
people are fed up with anti Americanism. Whatever happens in
the election, I suppose it's possible, it's eminently possible in fact,
that Joe Biden could be the president. And then I
think a lot of people will be saying long lived
Joe Biden because they don't want Mallahrris to become the president.
But I think it could put conservatives in a strong
position in twenty twenty four. But now is not the

(47:08):
time to give up that election. There is still a
process that will play out. There is still a fight
to be had, and there are still at least a
handful of Republicans who have maintained their spines. We've got
to take a quick break right now. I'm Michael Knowles
filling in for the Rush Limbaugh program on the EIB network.
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I'm Michael Knowle's filling in. You know, before the break
I mentioned something we were We were on the lines,
on the phone lines, and we talk every election about
how this is the most important election in our lifetime.
And sometimes people think, oh, that's not really true. It's
just so many people say to get out the vote.
I think it is true, and I think it's going
to continue to be true. I think it'll be true

(50:04):
the next election. I think it'll be true the election
after that, assuming hopefully we still have elections and we
still have electoral viability at the national level. Why is
that because whereas in the past we fought over worthy
political issues, you know, abortion, the definition of marriage would
be another social issue, taxes, immigration, very important issue. Whereas

(50:26):
in the past we fought over those issues, Now we're
fighting over the country itself. Is it a good country?
Is it a bad country? Do we like the country?
Do we not like the country? Do we want to
help the country. Do we want to burn the country
to the ground as all those peaceful protesters did this summer.
We've been talking about this for a number of years now,
ever since at least Barack Obama said that he wanted
to fundamentally transform America, because of course, you don't want

(50:51):
to fundamentally transform things that you love. People got very
upset when when we would question Left Winger's love of country,
but they just hold it to us themselves, said, we
want to fundamentally transform it. When I put my head
on my pillow at night and I say good night
to my wife's sweet little Elisa, I don't whisper her
sweet little nothings. Since I love you, honey, I can't

(51:12):
wait to fundamentally transform you. I want you to be
utterly unrecognizable. I don't want to be able to tell
who you are in the morning. I wouldn't say I
would not be allowed to sleep in that bed that night.
And of course you don't want to fundamentally transform things
that you love. You've seen protests of the American flag,
You've seen burning of the American flag in American cities,
and just now we've got the latest piece of evidence

(51:34):
that this left right divide has really become a divide
between pro America and anti America. From the UN Human
Rights Counsel, the most ironically named body in the entire world.
UN Human Rights Counsel is where we get scolded by
the likes of Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, North Koreasm of
the worst regimes on earth. We pay for most of

(51:56):
it by the way we pay for the lions share.
We invite these people to come to New York on
beautiful property that I think would make a fine Trump
luxury condominium. I guess that hasn't happened yet, but someday,
if I ever ascend to the heights of the United Nations,
we are bulldozing that building and building beautiful waterfront luxury
Trump property there in the meantime, though, you have these

(52:18):
awful actors, our enemies around the world coming in and
lecturing the United States. Could you imagine the audacity of China,
which a kills its own people, which imprisons millions of
its own people, which forces sterilization, forces abortion, enslaves many
of its own people. They come in and they attack
the United States. The reason I bring it up is
they now attack the United States using the Democrats talking points.

(52:40):
I kid you not. You just had this past week
an emissary from China on the UN Human Rights Council
accusing the United States of bigotry, of racism, of a
scourge of racist police officers slaughtering innocent men on the
basis of their race. And then you'll have Democrats it's
parroting that talking point. Then you'll have our enemies around

(53:02):
the world parroting that talking point as well. That's a
little bit different just in arguing over a political issue,
because there you're really fighting for love of country itself,
for loyalty to country itself. It is open line Friday.
By the way, if you didn't remember that, the number
is eight hundred two eight two eight eight two. Let's
turn now to Shelby in Richland, Washington. Shelby, you are

(53:22):
on the air, Hi there, So I had a few questions.
I'll try to be quick. It's on dominion software. I
was wondering who's for viewing the ballots that created errors
while counting and who holds them accountable? Well, you know
the Dominion software. I've been I've been looking into it.
I've been looking at all their information they have on

(53:44):
their website, and they can put whatever kind of parameters
they want when they're putting in those ballots, and that
they can have it put aside to have to manually
look at that ballot that creates the errors. So who's
holding that accountable to making sure that that the software
on that particular device is not being carefuled with by

(54:06):
the person using it. Well, one is a locked sure.
One issue with Dominion is that right now, the entire
mainstream media Dominion is a software used in these voting machines.
The entire mainstream media are coming out and saying there's
no problem with Dominion, no irregularities whatsoever. Move on, move on.
Nothing to see here. But we just spoke to Mayor
Rudy Giuliani, who's President Trump's attorney who says they're big

(54:29):
problems with dominion, and there are employees of dominion who
say that there are big problems with dominion, and so
they're looking into that right now. To the broader question
of who is certifying these these results, who is looking
at these issues right now? We're getting a hand recount
in Georgia, I suppose that's a good thing, a full audit.
But in Arizona, I'll just use Arizona as an example.

(54:53):
Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in twenty seventeen she
forgot to delete her tweets. She called President trump supporters
neo Nazis, not just a handful of crazy fringe supporters. No,
she said that President Trump's base is neo Nazis. Do
we think that woman is going to be fair when

(55:15):
certifying these results. I don't think so. I don't think
so at all. And because if I were in her position,
let's say I honestly believe there was a Nazi takeover
going on of the United States, Adolf Hitler himself were
in power, I would probably be compelled to maybe switch
a few ballots. I don't know. I'm not accusing her
of doing that. I'm just saying that the framework that
she has set up here is one that is fundamentally unfair,

(55:38):
and it is one that whether or not the results
of the election turn out for Biden, or they turn
out for Trump, or whether or not their legitimate or illegitimate,
we probably can't trust it too much. We'll be right back.
Welcome back to the Russia Limbo program. I'm Michael Knowles,
filling in. Very honored and privileged to be here behind
the golden EIB microphone on open Line Friday. The telephone

(55:59):
number is eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
It's a very important that we that we remain able
to speak to one another before the Democrats compile all
these lists that they're threatening and ship us all off
to whatever leftist goulog they're no doubt building. Right now,
let's turn right now to Edward in my very own

(56:21):
city of Los Angeles, California. Edward, Welcome to the program. Hi, Michael,
thanks for having me. Good job. Yeah, I'm joining you
on the list today. I guess the list of accountability
people who have the scenting opinion you're worried, I suspect
living in a very blue town in a very blue
state run by our very own governor Gavin Nussolini, as

(56:45):
the vindictive politics ramp up. Are you do you work
in the industry? Are you in show business? I am
in a lot of times, I just sort of it's funny,
you have to be silent when when people start talking,
and because I never I'll never agree, but like, I'll
be silent times and then you know, if your silence
goes on too long, you get the suspicious looks, right right, right.

(57:06):
That is the way that you can tell a Hollywood
conservative it's not because they're wearing the Maga hat necessarily,
it's because they're not wearing the Bernie hat. It's because
they're they're not eagerly engaging in this conversation. But the
kind of left wing conversation in Hollywood and the demand
for agreement that is everywhere, I mean, that pervades the
whole town. Right Well, yeah, and I think it's one

(57:27):
of the things that actually concerns me about, like right now,
what's going on? Because I feel like we're barreling towards
another lockdown, right, and the media is selling it hard
to us, right, and you know, let's look at this
there hasn't been an inauguration, there hasn't been a certification
of the election, and you know, lockdowns fundamentally haven't worked
in any nation that wasn't willing to kill its citizens.

(57:48):
So can we just have a conversation of how crazy
this isn't not? Just like, you know, like, why are
we doing this? You know, is this actually necessary? I
don't know that it is. And I think that that
just saying that as a dangerous thought. How dare you?
I can't believe that you would contradict the science, don't.
Don't you know the science which early on in the

(58:10):
virus epidemic told us do not wear masks. Never wear masks.
You're a bad person if you wear masks. Doctor Fauci
told us that the Surgeon General told us that, and
then they flipped it pretty quickly and they said, no, actually,
now you have to wear masks. That which is not
forbidden is compulsory. Then they told us, so we're going
to lockdown for fifteen days. That was actually two hundred
and forty two days ago that they told us this.

(58:31):
And you're right, we are barreling toward another lockdown, particularly
if Joe Biden is named president. His top COVID advisor
has said we need to lockdown the whole country for
four to six weeks. We've been told by Governor Cuomo
in New York, the worst governor in terms of his
handling of coronavirus. We've been told that you can't have
more than ten people at Thanksgiving dinner. So if you've

(58:51):
got a big Catholic family, too bad, pick your least
favorite kid and send him to the doghouse because he's
not allowed at the Thanksgiving dable. This does appear to
be happening. Joe Biden talked about a nationwide mask mandate,
and so what's going to happen is are all their
businesses in LA going to go out of business? Well,
I think that right now we're in permanent lockdown in California.
So in without lack of there's no real rules. So

(59:13):
people are just making up their own rules, and you
don't ask because if you ask, you're just going to
get told no. You know. But I mean, here's the thing, Michael,
these people are not stupid people. They're smart people. And
I think sometimes we get caught up in thinking how
could they, rather than asking why would they? And what
is really going on? You know, is you have to
ask because you can look at the data, you see

(59:34):
that you can lock down and then you come out
and it just sparks up again. It's whack of right.
So at that point, why are we doing this? Why
are we willing to shatter our economy rather than just
protecting our vulnerable, which we should do, right, But like,
why are we willing to shatter our economy knowing that
every great socialist revolution came on the heels of great

(59:54):
poverty and great strife, right, So the only way to
turn our nation is to our economy, reduce us to
our needs. And that is an interesting point of view.
Never let a crisis go to waste is the line
that the Democrats often use. It's funny because I think
the left genuinely doesn't understand the conservative opposition to the
lockdowns and even to the mandatory masks, you know, when

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you're alone in your home, in your car, all these
sorts of things. They think that we don't want to
lockdown and we don't want to wear the masks because
we think we can never get the virus, when actually
I think it's the opposite. We don't want to lockdown
our whole country. Shut down the economy and wear masks
everywhere because we know that we're going to live with
the virus, We're probably going to get the virus. The
virus is very contagious. There was a study came out

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of I think it was over a month or even
two months ago from the public health experts and World
Health Organization saying that something like ten percent of the
globe has already contracted this virus. The virus is only
what eleven months old or so, so it's obviously moving
very quickly. There was another survey out of Chicago showed
one in five Chicagoans had contracted the virus, so twenty

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percent spread very quickly over there. You know, we don't
we don't lock down over particularly bad flu epidemics. We
don't lock down over other diseases that were very worrisome
West Nile, swine flu, those sorts of things. You know,
you can't you can't eliminate germs, You can't eliminate suffering
and disease, much as those utopians would like us too,
but we are told in the name of science that

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we absolutely have to do that. And the science they're
talking about, by the way, I don't think it's the
science even of viruses. I think what they're interested in is,
to use Marx's words, the science of history. They know
that history has an endpoint. It's their progressive utopia. They
know how it works. That that's why they're so infuriated

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at conservatives who are standing in the way of progress,
the right side of history. The arc of history is long,
but it bends toward justice, all these kinds of things.
And we we conservatives, in the phrase of William F.
Buckley Junior, stand athwart history, yelling stop. We said, we
don't like this history. We don't want to go there.
And it's clear that they're exploiting this epidemic for political purposes.

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And they're helped along by the way edward by a
group of people that I like to call court jester conservatives.
This is a group of people who they sort of
pretend to be conservative. They put up a little bit
of a fight, but really their job is to lay
down and lose. You saw a couple of these court
jester conservatives come up the other day when the media
called the election for Joe Biden. I'm not going to

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name any of these people. I don't want to be
so rude. I'll point out some of them are senators
from the state of Utah, former governors of Massachusetts, inventors
of Obamacare, former Republican presidential nominees, but I'm not going
to name them. I think that would be very rude.
Some of these people have exclamation points at the end
of their name. These are the court jester conservatives who

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will they'll put up a little bit of a fight.
They offer a limp opposition to the dominant liberal regime,
which they thereby legitimized by the way through their meek opposition,
and then that regime will occasionally give them plaudits, will
accally give them a strange new respect. Once these sort
of conservatives have fully given up all of their power

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and that is their role. And then there are conservatives
who have a spine, you know, led by the way
in the media by Rush Limbaugh, and he's been doing
it for decades. A lot of other people don't want
to do that. We don't know what's going to happen
in the presidential election. Joe Biden. He may ascend to
the presidency in the end here, or the courts may
find and disqualify enough illegal votes to re elect President Trump.

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Mayor Giuliani seems confident in that we spoke to him earlier.
We're going to speak a little later to Senator Ted Cruz,
who is another one of these politicians who has a spine.
You know, he's actually pushing back and standing up against
this media and left wing onslaught. We don't yet know.
We don't yet know what is going to happen. What
we do know, however, is that the conservatives who the

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morning after the election, when the media we're trying to
throw it to Biden, the conservatives who are clamoring for
President Trump to concede, never wanted him to win in
the first place. They were happy to help this along.
And regardless of any debate about science and should you
have your ten relatives over for Thanksgiving or when should
you wear the mask? What we do know is that

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there is a strong political campaign that is on right now,
and that political campaign is meant to fundamentally transform the country.
The potential Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris,
was a Senate co sponsor of the Green New Deal.
Green New Deal is the most radical piece of legislation
that has ever been proposed in American history. The Green
New Deal is not just about the environment. The Green

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New Deal is about radically redistributing wealth, destroying the American
energy sector, rebuilding every building in the country because they
all have to be energy compliant. Could you imagine knocking
down and rebuilding every single edifice in the country within
ten years. It's about a radical redistribution of wealth on
the basis of race and ethnicity. It's about a Medicare

(01:04:56):
for all platform. What does that have to do with
the environment. I don't know, absolutely nothing. This is a
time that the Left is going to try to seize
opportunity in chaos, and I think we've got to tune
out a lot of that noise and focus in on
what they're really doing. It's a little bit of a
shell game. They're trying to distract us with one of
their hands, and then they're trying to get their agenda

(01:05:17):
through with the other one. We've got to take a
quick break. I'm Michael Knowles filling in for the Rush
Limball program on the EIB network. Don't go anywhere, we
will be right back. Welcome back to the Rush Limball program.
I'm Michael Knowles filling in and today is open line Friday.
You know, the number is one eight hundred two eight
two two eight eight two. That is eight hundred two

(01:05:39):
eight two two eight eight two. We, of course, still
do not know the results of the election, despite the
media's contention otherwise. I sort of feel like it's ground
tag day. Every day I wake up, it's election day. Oh, welcome,
it's election day again. Good morning. I wonder when we
will get out of this. I suppose the courts probably
will decide it, though there are lots of legal challenges

(01:06:02):
going on all around like the country. Speaking of all
around the country, let's talk to some of you from
around the country. Jeff from Houston, Texas, you are on
the air, Yes, thanks for taking my call. Its privilege.
A quick statement is the end game to basically render
the conservative you know, god fearing USA loving voice in

(01:06:24):
this country rendalness. I mean, you know, based on the
evidence that we're seeing from Hillary to you know, the
Russian Gate to Ukraine impeachment, the FBI, corruption, just everything
across the board. You know, it just seems like in
four years there's a lot of damage that could be
done to where you know, what does the end game
here and when does it end? And for them. I
think it's in this four year period. So I just

(01:06:47):
want to get your feedback on that, see what you think,
because I don't know what you look at measures why
it's to take in a situation like that for us
to say, you know, we have to win in the courts,
but if the Senate is lost and they have all
three ranches the government, we're in a very difficult situation.
That is exactly the goal here. The goal of the

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left is to render the right completely irrelevant, relegate them
to the dust bin of history, to use the Marxist terminology.
But this is not particular to this election, and it's
not just many sort of lobbing bombs at the left.
The left has told us this, The progressive left has
told us this for over a hundred years now. This
is explicitly their plan. You can see this in the

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writing of Woodrow Wilson, the first really prominent left progressive president.
Woodrow Wilson wrote in his Essays about Progressivism that the
American Constitution was no longer relevant, it was no longer
suitable for our country, and he used a scientific analogy.
Wilson said that back in the olden days, when the
Framers and Founders wrote our Constitution. That was the time

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that the world was governed by Isaac Newton. Newton's laws
a fixed universe where various powers would be balanced against
one another, and you could have this sort of static
government of checks and balances that the Constitution sets up.
And what Wilson says is that is no longer useful
in any way because we're not living in the age
of Newton. We're living in the age of Darwin. And

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in the age of Darwin, there's no such thing as
a fixed human nature. There is no such thing as eternal,
fixed laws of the universe. It's all just kind of evolving,
you know. And so what we need to do is
harness that power, have a much more powerful and energetic government,
and then have that government push us beyond what we
once thought were the bounds of human nature and the

(01:08:35):
bounds of politics into this wonderful progressive utopia. And the
way that Woodrow Wilson tried to establish this was through
the creation of the administrative state. And this is a
term that really hasn't been very popular until the past
four years because President Trump's election was a direct challenge
to the administrative state. We call it the deep state,

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we call it the blob, we call it the permanent government.
What the progress did about one hundred years ago, as
they said, what we need to do is take all
of the political decisions that you and I get to
decide for ourselves. We've got to take them out of
the public square, and we've got to send them over
to experts wearing lab coats, who are very, very smart,
and they all have great credentials from good schools, and

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they're going to make our decisions for us. Listen to science,
Listen to the experts. Don't think for yourself. Don't you
dare try to push back. That was the plan. There's
an irony because we're living in a time where everything
is politicized except for politics. The shoes that I buy
are politicized, the coffee that I drink is politicized. But
the political decisions for instance, should we shut down the economy?

(01:09:38):
For instance, can I have my friends and family over
for Thanksgiving? Those are now considered not political questions. Those
are scientific questions, and only the Exalted Doctor Fauci is
allowed to decide them for us. And if you dare
raise your voice, you will be punished. You you will
be thrown out of your job. You will be put
on an enemy list. It is not considered legitimate for

(01:10:00):
a conservative to win an election in this system. And
that is what the left told us in twenty sixteen.
That is why, even though President Trump clearly won that election,
it was not legitimate. It had to be the Russians,
it had to be the Macedonians, the click farms, the
Facebook ads, whatever, it couldn't be real. And now, of
course that the left believes that Joe Biden has won

(01:10:21):
this election, well, all of a sudden, there's no such
thing as for aud because democracy is working as they
believe democracy should work, namely, they should always win, we
should always lose. And they're becoming much more honest about it.
You know, we knock Woodrow Wilson. He's the cause of
a great many problems in American history. At least the
guy was honest. And then for about I don't know,
a hundred years or so, American leftists were not honest.

(01:10:42):
They tried to hide their designs. They said, oh, you know,
it's important just to vote. Doesn't matter who you vote for,
it's important just to vote. Well, now we're being told no,
you've got to vote for the left, and if you
don't vote for the left, things are not going to
go very well for you. I was saying earlier in
the show, it is such an honor to be able
to fill in for Rush year behind the golden EIB microphone.

(01:11:03):
And the only downside is now I think I'm going
to be elected like class President of the Gulags or something.
I'm absolutely going to find myself on that list, and
I think I think you will too. I mean, that's
what AOC is saying, That's what Jake Tapper is saying,
That's what that former presidential candidate, mister Eg McMuffin Evan
McMullen is saying. That is that is a permanent plan

(01:11:25):
to get rid of the right. And so the stakes
are very high and we better not give up yet.
I've got to take a quick break. I'm Michael Knowles
filling in for the Rush Limbough program. Will be right back.
Welcome back to the Rush Limbo program. I'm Michael Knowles
filling in. Lots of news happening, a lot of it
has to do with the presidential election, but I do
want to give you a book burning update. You know,

(01:11:47):
these we have to update every so often when the
left bands another book or another idea. This one comes
in the case of transgenderism. No longer is it acceptable
to say, for instance, I respect people's rights to identify
with whatever gender they want, just don't do it to
the children. Now we are finding out that if you

(01:12:08):
do not support transgender ideology as applied to little children,
you are a bigot. You will be removed from polite society.
Where it has come out from Target that my friend
Abigail Schreier's book, excellent book, by the way, irreversible damage,
the transgender craze, Seducing our Daughters is being banned from

(01:12:29):
Target because it is transphobic. A book that outlines and
it's totally factual it is. It's not a polemic in
any way. Abigail Schreier supports adults right to have gender surgery,
identifies whatever gender they want, just says maybe we should
wait for these kids. Kids are below the age of consent,
they can make these life chaining decisions. That book is

(01:12:51):
now considered transphobic. I guess you better get the book now, folks,
because it's going away. We hear a lot about unity
and healing and coming together. If Joe Biden is named president.
This is what they're talking about, folks. It's not just
if you're the most extreme right winger you're going to
be kicked out of society. It is that if you

(01:13:11):
hold as simple of you, as modest of you, that
maybe we shouldn't trans the kids, maybe we should let
the kids make their own decisions when they become adults.
If you even hold that view, you are going to
be kicked out of polite society. Get ready, folks, we
got to take a quick break. I'm Michael Knowles filling
in for Rush Limbo on the EIB network. We'll be
right back. Welcome back to the Rush Limbaugh program. I

(01:13:34):
am Michael Knowles filling in. I am so honored to
be here behind the golden EIB microphone. I am, you
might say, a long time listener and first time caller.
So it is so great to be here. And if
I could have picked any day to be sitting in
for Rush, it would be today because today is Friday.

(01:13:54):
And do you know what that means? The left post
that are satellites studios in Los Angeles. It's open line Friday.
It is open line Friday. The telephone number is one
eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two. You
already know that, but if you had forgotten one eight

(01:14:17):
hundred two eight two two eight eight two, look forward
to take in your calls. You know, in the last segment,
we were talking about the books that the left is
burning right now. They want to burn any sort of
book that is not politically correct being banned from retail stores.
So there are some books that the left wants to burn.
There are some books that the left is desperate to push.

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And I couldn't possibly forget to read this book review
on the show today. This is the book review of
Barack Obama's third memoir. The memoir is over seven hundred
pages long, his third book about his favorite topic, namely himself.

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The New Times is just giddy about this book. I
take I can't. I can't read the whole thing because
the review is almost as long as the book itself.
But I will read you just a little bit from
the first paragraph, A Promised Land by Barack Obama. That's
the first sentence. I kid you not. Barack Obama is
as fine a writer as they come. Okay, fake news
right off the top. I can't. I can't believe another

(01:15:21):
word of this review, But that's sort of expected from
the New York Times say Barack Obama is as fine
a writer as they come. It is not merely that
this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, or
as is this book review even forgiven of a hefty memoir,
but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read. Sentence
by sentence. The prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular

(01:15:45):
and vivid. I feel almost voyeuristic reading this review. I
feel like I'm peering into this reviewer's bedroom window. Such
pleasure is she receiving from reading Barack Obama's book. She
goes on from Southeast Asia to a forgotten school in
South Carolina. Obama evokes the sense of place with a
light but sure hand. Oh gosh, hubba hubbah. This is

(01:16:06):
the first of two volumes, and it starts early in
his life, charting his initial political campaigns, and ends with
a meeting in Kentucky where he is introduced to the
seal team involved in the Obadabad raid that killed Osama
Bin Laden, reminding us, of course, a Barack Obama's great
achievement there of calling in for that raid. His focus
is more political than personal. But when he does write

(01:16:28):
about his family, it is with a beauty close to nostalgia,
wriggling Malia into her first ballets. I can't take anymore.
I can't take any more of this review, though it
does go on for a very very long time. We
are returning to the messianic age in the mainstream media.
That's what they think. I mean, they think Joe Biden
is going to be the president. It's all going to
be well and good. We are now going to come

(01:16:51):
back and relive those glory days from two thousand and
eight to twenty sixteen. I mentioned this not just merely
to attack the media, which is like shooting fish in
a barrel. We don't need to do that, not even
to go after Obama so much as to point out
something that we have been told now for the past
four years, that Donald Trump is a narcissist. Donald Trump
is so prideful that these conservatives were so we've fallen

(01:17:16):
into a cult to follow President Trump. President Trump is
downright humble compared to Barack Obama, not just because Obama
wrote the three memoirs about himself, and not even because
of these personal attributes. Look a healthy ego is a
job requirement for the presidency, for any political office for
that matter. So I don't be grudge President Trump the

(01:17:36):
towers with his name on it, and I frankly, I
don't even be grudge Barack Obama his silly and ridiculous memoirs.
What I'm talking about is a humility that pertains to politics,
because the left believes Obama, especially that there is no
limit to politics. Elect me, and the sea levels will lower,
the earth will heal. We are the ones we have

(01:17:59):
been waiting for. Hope, a theological virtue is present in me.
I am the embodiment of hope. There is nothing we
can't accomplish. Progress will lead us to a transformation of
human nature. We will eliminate disease. That's what they're telling
us with the coronavirus. There won't be germs anymore because
of their wonderful messianic plans. And then you've got President Trump.
In the conservative view of politics, which is defined by

(01:18:22):
its humility, Trump comes up and he doesn't start giving
these messianic speeches as though he is some some profit
or some savior from the Bible. He comes up and
he says, yeah, we're getting bad trade deals. I'm gonna
fix him. Yeah, we're not handling this aspect of the economy. Well,
we're gonna fix it. Yeah. Man, this immigration system, it's
so out of whack. It's we're taking in millions of
people a year. The American people don't don't want that

(01:18:44):
number because you can't assimilate that many people. It's lowering rages,
it's hurting jobs. So yeah, we're gonna fix the immigration
system too. That's it. He's frankly, he speaks like a plumber,
like he's he's plumbing. He's fixing the pipes of our republic,
which is what we need because we got really leaky pipes.
You've heard about leaky pipes in that jor of vote
counting center. I'm a little skeptical of those, but I
am not skeptical that are the plumbing of our republic

(01:19:05):
does need help. That is a humble view of things, okay,
And it doesn't matter how boastfully can be about crowd sizes.
That's all fun. I mean, he's a great he's a
great entertainer. But when he's talking about the limits of politics,
he and conservatives generally realize you're not going to change
human nature. You're not going to end poverty. You're not
going to end war forever. You can have good policies

(01:19:28):
that diminish war. Actually Trump has a much better record
on that than Barack Obama. But you're not going to
end these things forever. And that is how I think
we are approaching politics, and it is why we can laugh.
We can laugh so heartily at ridiculous reviews of Barack
Obama's memoir in the New York Times, and they just
don't get it. And if they do ascend to the
presidency this time, we are going to get a whole

(01:19:50):
lot more of this kind of ridiculous fluff. Let's turn
to the phones. You know the number, eight hundred eight two,
eight eight two. Let's turn to Sean Buffalo, New York. Sewan.
You're on the air. All right, how are you doing today?
I'm doing very well. How can I help you? Well,
I'm a Buffalo, New Yorker and I'm saying right here

(01:20:11):
on the air. Trump won flat out. I don't see
Biden getting seventy five million votes. It just add a Now,
I wanted to mention I mentioned two your screener. I'm
hearing out of so many pundits and other people this

(01:20:32):
kind of surrenderistic kind of language. Well, if Trump doesn't
win or I will fight on. And my statement is this,
how are we going to get another conservative? And let's
call what a conservative is. A conservative is a pro American,

(01:20:53):
pro American labor, pro constitution person who didn't get in
to well, that's most of conservatives. Didn't get into politics
to get rich and wealthy or can be bought off,
which Trump it cannot be bought off, right, How are
we going to get someone in like that? Again? If

(01:21:16):
the people who pulled this off are running the government
from top to bottom, which they're done, they're doing right now,
how is it going to get anyone else in? Yeah,
it's a great point on a couple of levels actually,
because one, you've got the bureaucratic issue. We were talking
about that earlier, that we do have the blob, you know,

(01:21:37):
we do have the administrative state that makes so many
laws for us beyond the election, doesn't matter who wins
the election, they keep regulating to various degrees. And then
you've got this issue where the Democrats are promising us
if they get elected and they can destroy the Republican
Senate majority that they're going to end the filibuster. They're
going to vote to add new states to the Union,

(01:21:59):
add port Rico and even more implausibly, Washington DC. The
whole point of Washington DC is that it is not
a state. You don't want your federal government to be
in a state. That's why they took parts of Virginia
Maryland made the federal district. Well, the Democrats want to
turn that into a state. Why because it will give
them two more senators, will give them more votes. Same
thing going on in Puerto Rico, and you could have

(01:22:19):
a situation there where Republicans at the national level are
not able to win again. They would not be able
to win the presidency. That is not an implausible outcome.
If the Democrats do succeed in doing that and adding
those two new states, it's almost guaranteed. So you've got
that problem. I think, actually your question is such an
important flip side to what we've been talking about. Conservatives

(01:22:42):
understand the limits of politics. It's not perfect. We're not
going to heal the earth or whatever. We're not going
to save and redeem mankind through some ballot box or something.
You can do good things, and then you hopefully, and
you try to win. But we understand there are limits
to politics. The flip side of that is, don't just
give up, don't just roll over like you're describing these

(01:23:02):
court jester conservatives who put up limp opposition to the
liberal regime and then their job basically is just to lose. No,
don't do that. Courage is a virtue as well. It's
the pre requisite for all of the other virtues. And
so we're in a world in which maybe Joe Biden's
named president, maybe he isn't. We don't know. We're not
going to know for for a little time now, and
so we're going to fight it out. We're not going

(01:23:23):
to concede right away. We can accept the limits of
politics that you know, we can't get everything perfect right
all the time, and we can live to fight another day.
But there are real stakes here, folks, and those real
stakes could really threaten conservatives, especially at the national level.
I gotta take a quick break. I'm Michael Knowles sitting
in for Rush Limbaugh on the EIB Network. We will
be right back. Welcome back to the Russia Limba program.

(01:23:46):
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(01:28:06):
and on the website you can get news. This headline
just comes up. Family income rose drastically under Trump, meaning
his economy was better than Obama's. How many times have
you heard from the establishment mainstream media that Trump's economy
was terrible, Obama's economy was great, Oh, he lagged, he
didn't have the job growth, And unbelievably, this is the

(01:28:29):
most implausible of all. They blame Trump for the coronavirus lockdown,
which they clamored for they're the ones promising the lockdown.
Joe Biden's COVID advisor isn't now saying we need four
to six weeks of a total lockdown. President Trump has
been calling to reopen the country for months now. But
we now have analysis coming out that shows that President

(01:28:50):
Trump's economic policies really were better than Barack Obama's. Carl Smith,
former VP at the Tax Foundation and assistant professor of
economics at UNC, published this also in Bloomberg to just
analyze what happened. What happened a real median household income
In twenty sixteen, real median household income was sixty two

(01:29:11):
eight hundred ninety eight dollars, which is just about two
hundred fifty bucks over its level in nineteen ninety nine.
Over the next three years of the Trump administration, it
grew almost six thousand bucks. That is a huge number,
and it explains, by the way, how during the midst
of the lockdown and the pandemic and everything. Just last month,
fifty six percent of US voters said they were still

(01:29:34):
better off today than they were four years ago, even
amid a pandemic. You're not going to see that story
and the mainstream media. It's important to remember it, though,
because they're already trying to rewrite history because they think
that they've got this election in the bag. You know,
it's open line Friday. That number eight hundred eight two
eight eight two. Let's turn now to Dave in ruston Louisiana. Dave,

(01:29:56):
you're on the air. Thanks for taking my call. You
and Rush are about one thing. He's not talent on
loan from God. He's a gift from God. Right, But
that's not my call. We are missing a boat here.
We need to change the narrative they think they've won.
We need a Trump parade, we need a Trump flotilla.

(01:30:17):
We need every Trump supporter in the country to descend
upon Washington, d C in numbers that have never been
seen before. We need the CNN and MSNBC to see
something that our audiences have never seen. Five million, five
million Trump Trumps spoke saying, God bless you, stop to steal.

(01:30:39):
We see what's going on. Why should we ever believe
the courts are going to give us justice now? After
what we've seen for the last twelve years. I'm telling
you we're desperate out here. Organize this. If you and
Rush and Tucker and Sean and Mark within set a day,
and it has to be a Saturday, because hey, we
work for a living. They're gonna see what real patriotism is.

(01:31:03):
They're going to see five million people come in there,
and they're not going to cheer down the statue. They're
going to worship it. We're going to go to the
National Cathedral, not to burn it, but to kneel there
and pray to God. Well, we go to the Washington Memorial,
we praise him. We're not going to write graffiti. And
when we leave, there won't be a cigarette bet left
there if I have to personally pick every one of

(01:31:24):
them up. Right right, You're making such an important point, Dave,
This is such an important point. I'm sitting in Los
Angeles right now. I'm looking out the window of the studio.
It's boarded up. The town is boarded up, and it's
been boarded up since election day. Why is Los Angeles
boarded up? It's a pretty left wing town. Were they
boarded up because they were afraid that roving, marauding gangs

(01:31:46):
of conservatives we're going to riot and loot and commit arson.
You'd have Brooks Brothers clad conservatives sort of smashing in
Gucci stores and stealing handbags. No, I don't think so.
They were convinced that left wing that Democrats would loot
and riot if the election were called for President Trump.
And obviously the election hasn't been called for anybody yet,

(01:32:07):
so that looting and riding hasn't happened. The left has
gone out, They've been encouraged to do it by elected Democrats.
Maxine Waters went out, this was over a year ago
at this point, I think, and said, you need to
go out and mob in public. You've got to push
back on them. You've got to tell conservatives that they're
not welcome here, go to their homes where their children sleep,

(01:32:28):
and physically threaten them. So the left, what they want
to do is they want to gather in public and
threaten violence. And what conservatives could do is the opposite
of that. Gather in public and support our country, Urge peace,
urge democratic norms, defend our constitution. What you say, you
could have a million Conservatives go out and rally for

(01:32:50):
the country, for President Trump, for the constitution. They would leave.
You wouldn't find a single cigarette butt there afterwards. Seriously,
you wouldn't find one there. This what happened in the
tea parties. You remember, everyone tried to attack the tea parties.
Turned out absolutely they were the cleanest, most orderly protests
in America. Coincidentally, I think there will be some gatherings
tomorrow in Washington. I am flying to Washington, out of

(01:33:10):
LA out of La La Land. I'll be giving a
speech with the Young America's Foundation. But I encourage it peacefully,
show your country, your defense of the Constitution. That is
what we can do right now. That's one of the
few things in our hands. I'm Michael Knowles filling in
for Rush. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the
Russia Limbo program. I'm Michael Knowles filling in. We are

(01:33:31):
on the search around this country for spines in conservatives,
in Republicans, especially in elected Republicans. Seems when they were
doling out the spines, a lot of elected Republicans, I
don't know, they were too far back in line. They
didn't get any. There is one guy, though, who does
have a spine, who is standing up, who is leading
the fight against some of the madness and the power

(01:33:53):
grabs that we've seen in not just the past few weeks,
but in the past many years, that would be US
Senator Ted Cruz, who has the distinction of being not
just one of the top US senators in this country,
but also one of our nation's top podcasters. I think
he is the only person who can do both hosts
of Verdict with Ted Cruz. Senator Cruz, thank you so

(01:34:14):
much for coming on. Well, Michael, it's great to be
with you and as your listeners. No doubt, no, you're
you're the co host of Verdict the Pole that is true.
We launched in January of this year, and so you
and I spent spend time every week trying to drill
down and understand all the crazy things happening in this

(01:34:34):
country and really get to the substance and the facts,
and so appreciate you're having me today. Well, one thing
I've noticed, it's not just that spines are in short supply,
but also understanding of the issues is often in short
supply in Washington. It turns out to Alexandriocazio Cortez appears
to think that the Democrats lost the House majority. That

(01:34:55):
headline just came out. If only if only that were true,
But it's not the case. Obviously she's not paying too
close attention to the issues there. And you have. And
when we launched our Verdict podcast, it was during impeachment.
We were meeting every night at three in the morning
in an undisclosed bunker in Washington, DC and really going
through exactly what was happening, what were the facts. And
now we're in a time period that is as crucial,

(01:35:18):
you would say, and as confusing a lot of people
don't know exactly what is going on. Senator, you were
a lawyer during the Bush v. Gore recount back in
two thousands, so you have been in these kind of
election messes before, in the trenches and the front lines.
What are we looking at. Where does this election fight
stand right now in terms of the ballot, county, in

(01:35:39):
terms of the courts, and in terms of the final result. Well,
you're right, we've seen this before as a country. We
saw it twenty years ago in Bush versus Gore. And
at the time, I was a young lawyer, was representing
George W. Bush, part of the legal team. As you know,
I wrote a book that came out a few weeks
ago called One Vote Away, How a single Spring Court

(01:36:00):
seat can Change History and there's an entire chapter on
One Vote Away recounting the inside story of Bush versus Gore,
what happened behind the scenes, and it's I think there
are a lot of lessons for today, the recounts that
are going on right now, the litigation that's going on
right now. If you remember back to election day. On
election Day in the year two thousand, initially the news

(01:36:24):
media called it for al Gore. They said al Gore
had won Florida. They said al Gore was the president,
and I still remembered Dan rather gloating on air, being
so happy and triumphant. And then the problem was that
the voters disagree. As they tallied the votes in Florida,
turned out George W. Bush had more votes in Florida
than al Gore, and late in the evening the media

(01:36:47):
had to retract their their call. And then even later
in the evening they called the election for George W.
Bush and Florida, and nationally once again, Dan rather painfully
had had to acknowledge that. But then it turned out
that was premature too, because the results were very, very close.
In Florida. Al Gore sent in an army of lawyers

(01:37:10):
to the state of Florida, And for the next thirty
six days we had litigation in Florida. I was in
Tallahassee for that entire time. And at the end of
that proceedings, once everything had been litigated and resolved, then
once it was final, we knew the winner, and the
winner ended up being George W. Bush. I think that
is analogous to where we are now, where the results

(01:37:31):
the media wants the results to be Joe Biden. It
may end up there, but we need to let the
proceedings play out first, consistent with the rule of law,
consistent with the Constitution. The Senator, I've been reliably informed
by the mainstream media that President Trump is an authoritarian,
grabbing onto power, upsetting constitutional norms. This is outrageous, it's unprecedented.

(01:37:52):
It's never happened. And what we're about ten days into
this process or something, I don't know. Ten days seems
like less than thirty six days. What is this process?
Because the media are presenting one side of it. But
it seems as you say that there are legal mechanisms,
constitutional mechanisms to decide this election, and we haven't reached
the end of them yet. That's exactly right, you know,

(01:38:15):
the media. Donald Trump broke the media that they hate
the presidents so much that as soon as they had
any plausible basis to do so, they gleefully declared the
election for Joe Biden. And then the consistent position they
have is anyone who dares question that is somehow a
radical destroying democracy. Well here's a radical thought. How about

(01:38:42):
we actually let the election process and the legal process
move forward. There is litigation, there are recounts, there's contest
litigation in states all across the country, and that is
how the rule of law operates. So it may we
be at the end end of this process that Joe
Biden prevails. But the objective should be that every legal

(01:39:04):
vote that was cast should be counted, but that every
illegal vote that was cast shouldn't be counted. And the
way to figure that out is not what some random
person puts out on Twitter, but it's rather we have
a legal process where courts consider evidence considered direct testimony,
consider expert witness testimony, and assess whether the law was

(01:39:28):
followed and to the end, to the extent it wasn't.
The job of the court is to make sure we
do follow the laws. That is our system of democracy.
And it is what the Constitution sends up right. We
are speaking with Senator and podcast host Extraordinary Ted Cruz, Senator.
A lot of the issues here seem to revolve around

(01:39:48):
twenty sixteen. It just seems like in many ways we're
relitigating twenty sixteen. And of course, in twenty sixteen there
was some corruption. It just appears to have been happening
in the Obama administration and in the bureaucracies, sp ying
on President Trump's campaign, framing President Trump's appointees, investigating him,
trying to throw him out of office. I was wondering
when you very graciously agreed to come on the show today,

(01:40:10):
I was wondering if I would have to be speaking
to you on a telephone from a jail cell somewhere
because of your absolutely annihilating attack on former FBI Deputy
Director Andy McCabe. Earlier this week, a deputy direct former
deputy director Andy McCabe, this crooked FBI official, was testifying
before the Senate, and I felt people generally went pretty

(01:40:33):
easy on him, except for you. You You really hit the
nail on the head. You backed him into a corner.
And I know it's a complex issue, but can you
just explain a little bit about that corruption and what
we might see if any of these people will actually
be held accountable. Yeah. No, it's one of the worst
aspects of the Obama Biden administration as they deeply politicize

(01:40:57):
the Department of Justice and the FBI and the IA
and law enforcement and intelligence, and they turned the FBI
and DOJ into essentially an opposition research arm and an
attack arm to go after their political enemies. And it
you know, we've got centuries of tradition in this country
of the Department of Justice being a political not being

(01:41:21):
a partisan tool, and Obama and Biden corrupted that. And
if you look at the top of the FBI, you
had James Comy and Andrew McCabe, and they willfully targeted
President Trump because they hated President Trump. And they went
after General Michael Flynn in a way that was truly shameful.
And they've dissembled, they've lied about it. If you look

(01:41:41):
at Comy's testimony and McCabe's testimony, they're directly contradictory. And
I actually think last week's testimony by McCabe was very
important because it's the first time he's testified under oath
under penalty of perjury, and he testified specifically that James
Comey authorised him and it gave him the green light

(01:42:02):
to leak to the press. Right Tomy is testified exactly
the opposite one or the other is not telling the truth.
And I'm certainly frustrated that it's taken four years and
we haven't seen people held accountable, we haven't seen people prosecuted.
And I very much hope, at a minimum, in the
next couple of months that the Department of Justice moves

(01:42:24):
forward with enforcing the law and holding people accountable. Absolutely, Senator,
very quickly before we go. I know in the Senate
you sit next to David Purdue, a Senator from Georgia.
These races, these runoffs in Georgia could determine control of
the Senate. We have your Democratic colleague, Joe Manchin saying,
don't worry if Republicans lose control the Senate, We're not

(01:42:46):
going to pass any of that radical legislation. Don't wait,
It's going to be totally fine. Take your eyes off Georgia.
Do you buy that kind of a narrative coming now
from the Democrats or do you think that really we
could be seeing a tidal wave of radicalism. If Republicans
don't hold the Senate, I don't buy it at all.
On January fifth, we have two Senate races on the
ballot in Georgia. They are the most indescribably important Senate

(01:43:09):
races of our lifetimes. If the Democrats win, Chuck Schumer
in all likelihood becomes majority leader. And if Chuck Schumer
is a majority leader, he will end the filibuster, he
will pass a massive tax increase, he will pass the
Green New Deal, he will pass massive amnesty for fifteen
million people here illegally, and they will pack the US

(01:43:31):
Supreme Court. And I mentioned a minute ago my book
One Vote Away, how a single Supreme Court seat can
change history. That book, which has been a New York
Times bestseller for five consecutive weeks, now explains how every
one of our rights that we value so much, free speech,
religious liberty, the Second Amendment, those rights are hanging by

(01:43:51):
a single vote and Georgia. If the Democrats win in Georgia,
they will pack the Supreme Court and take away our
right of tell you I'm going to Georgia. I'm campaigning.
We need every common sense conservative, every lover of liberty
in Georgia to come out and make sure Republicans keep
control of the Senate, to stop the radicals. And I'd

(01:44:14):
be remissed if I didn't encourage folks to go on
Amazon or Barnes and Noble or wherever you buy your
books and buy the book one vote away if you
want to understand really what's at stake at the Supreme
Court and also what's going on in this recount, in
this litigation all across the country. Yeah. Absolutely, a lot
of political books, maybe most of them are kind of
vacuous and they don't have that much substance. This book

(01:44:34):
is great. It's a book about something, It's about something
that is so important right right now. Senator Cruz writing
these best selling books, doing the Verdict podcast, leading the
fight in the Senate, you are putting the rest of
us to shame, but we really appreciate it. Keep the
faith and stay strong, and thank you so much for
coming on the show. Thank Gared, God bless All Right,
we gotta take a quick break. I'm Michael Knowles filling

(01:44:54):
in for Rush. We will be right back. Welcome back
to the Russia Limball program. I'm Michael Knowles fill in
and it is open line Friday. So let's get to
some of your calls. In the meantime. Let's turn now
to Ceci in Hell, Michigan. That's how a lot of
people are referring to Michigan these days, the whole state. Ceci,
you're on the air. I how's it go home? It's

(01:45:15):
going very well? How can I help you? Okay? So
I'm gonna let you know. I'm a registered Democrat, I'm
a Jew, I'm a person of color, and I vote
in for President Trump. And I have a lot of friends.
I've also turn I'm a former punk rocker. I'm from California.
And as soon as I start my kids school down

(01:45:37):
in March, I said something thinks about this. I also
work in the healthcare indstry I half for thirty years.
This is not right, the wine that they were doing this.
And once I started digging into that, I started digging
into everything and realized that we have been lied to
about so many things. And I went and saw the
president in Freeland, Michigan. I went in spur at a

(01:46:00):
limit for Trump Bonfire, and I guess I'm part of
this walkaway movement. Now I've only been listening to Rush
for a few months, but they've definitely I don't believe
there's a spike going on. I think this is drummed
up so you get people afraid in us to take
whatever it's going to be in this vaccine that magically appeared,

(01:46:20):
and also so that people can't properly do the audits.
They're still going to have to be so afraid and
stand so far back so that they can't fix this problem.
I am very confident that Michigan went for Trump because
all the people that voted for him before voted for
him and done some well. I'm very pleased to hear

(01:46:45):
of your conversion politically, and you know, just listening to
Rush for a few months will have that effect. But
there is something more broadly going on now. We saw
it in the exit polls. You know, my friend Kandice Owens,
who by the way, is coming to join us at
the Daily Wire. She's gonna be launching a show at
Daily Wire with us over in Nashville. Candice has been
talking for months now, more than months, I guess, years,

(01:47:06):
about Blexit, about this idea that black voters in particular,
but you know, more broadly ethnic and sexual groups that
have been held by the Democratic Party are breaking free,
they're waking up, and that appears to have happened. You know,
one of the big questions during the twenty twenty election
was is that true or is that a mirage? And
it would seem to be true. It's ironic that it

(01:47:27):
appears the only voting group that President Trump lost some
votes in would be white men. We've been told for
years he's a white supremacist, he's a neo Nazi. Well, actually,
his support ticked up among just about every single group,
black voters, Hispanic voters, women, all over the place, except
perhaps white men. And you know, you do have to
take exit polls with a grain of salt. But something

(01:47:47):
clearly is happening. Now what is going on in Michigan
right now? We don't know. This is one of the problems.
I mean, you mentioned that you don't really have faith
in the public health experts, you don't really have faith
in the state election officials, and of course why should you.
You know, these people have lost their credibility. And that's
not our fault. It's not the fault of conservatives that

(01:48:09):
these public health officials, that these bureaucrats, that these leftist
politicians that the media have completely beclowned themselves and have
lied and have gotten caught lying and have made errors.
And that's not our fault. And this is one of
the real worries with this election now, is we may
not be able to feel comfortable with the results. Whatever happens.

(01:48:30):
Maybe this will work its way up through the courts
and the courts will hand it to Joe Biden. Maybe
it'll work its way up through the courts and they
disqualify enough and find enough fraudulent votes that they give
President Trump reelection. But either way, I suspect neither side
is going to have faith in those results, especially with
all of the irregularities. We were speaking with Mayor Giuliani

(01:48:52):
a little bit earlier, you know, President Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani,
who was saying that they've found countless irregularities that to
disqualify literally hundreds of thousands of votes in Pennsylvania. Whether
that will happen or not, we're not sure. But regardless
of what happens in the election, it does prove a
real damage to our democracy, to our republic, that we

(01:49:15):
can't have faith in these institutions. And I suppose the
silver lining to that stormcloud CC is exactly what you're describing,
which is that there are a lot of people who
have just been sort of entranced by the media, and
how could you not be by the entire liberal establishment.
They've been entranced for years and decades and they haven't
questioned it. And Trump comes in and he shakes things

(01:49:38):
up that will be beyond any policy, even beyond the judges.
That will probably be his longest lasting legacy. Let's hope
that that legacy doesn't begin in a couple of months.
Let's hope that legacy begins in four years and a
couple of months. We will have to wait to find out,
and we'll be seeing it as it works its way
up through the courts. There is actually some breaking news now,

(01:49:59):
a major court decision out of Michigan. We'll get to
that in a second. I'm Michael Knowles filling in for Rusgan.
A Michigan judge has just handed a legal victory to
Joe Biden that's being challenged by President Trump. I'm sure
it'll be working through the courts, but that's all the
time I've got. I'm Michael Noles filling in for Rush.
Rush plans to be back on Monday. Thank you so
much to him and you for having me

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