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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Michael, just drove back from San Francisco in Miam
all the way to Lovely Libby, and I listened to
all your podcasts and I'm all caught up and you
are a word zeus. I want to say, when you
talk about sour chasm and being a smart ass, you're
exact on both points.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You are a very sour chasm.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
But hey, once in a while, you are wickedly smart
as an ass.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Okay, thanks?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
How did the m do? By the way, And I'm
thinking about doing a trade in. I haven't decided, but
I'm thinking about doing a trade in. Mine's got too
many miles on it. And I hope you enjoyed the trip,
and I was san fran Did you see Nancy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
While you were out there?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Our friends are with the Babylon Bee continue with their
amazing streak of truly great satire's prophecy. Well maybe it
was close Monday they headlined this quote Trump to execute
all turkeys pardoned by Biden's auto pin and then yesterday
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the President announced that Biden's pardons of last year's turkeys
were no void because of the autopin, but that he
had saved the turkeys, and then Nica time. I don't
know if there's ever been another president who's got as
much of an entertainer and him as what Trump does.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Sometimes it falls flat, as it will with any comedian,
and sometimes it really hits home. This one just kind
of struck me as okay, because truthfully, I kind of
dislike the whole pardon of the turkeys.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I've always thought like one, I don't know and quite franky,
I don't care, but I'm kind of curious about of
the what millions of turkeys in the country. And I'm
not talking about you guys. I'm not talking about talk
show hosts. I'm talking about the real turkeys out there,
the ones that a lot of us are going to
eat tomorrow. How do you pick two? Who does the picking?
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Does Butterball do it? Is it a native ad? Is
this whole, this whole scam about pardoning turkeys? Is it
just a conspiracy by butter Ball to get attention every
year to their you know, they got the hotline. If
you have it, I forgot to thaw aout my turkey.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What do I do? Are my turkey's not doing this?
What do I do? There are some you know eight
hundred number you can call. I don't know what it is.
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But it's always just been kind of like really silly
to me, but not silly in a funny way, just
kind of silly in a stupid way. So the President
of the United States exercising one of the exclusive powers
that he has. And by the way, a turkey is
not a person, so I don't think it really applies constitutionally.
But now I'm just blame lawyer. But how do we
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pick the turkeys? And then do we really need two
turkeys every year? For what's the past fifty years however
long they've been doing it, and they get sent off
to what some farm somewhere where they just die of
old age. I mean, isn't that kind of a waste
of turkey? And then what about so, you know, have
you ever been to a turkey farm. I've been to
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a turkey farm. I've been to a turkey farm in
New Mexico. And you walk up and of course they're
really dumb birds, and they can't decide whether to run
away from you or to come to you because they know,
are are you here to feed us? Or are you
here to pick one of us? Out, you're gonna shop
our heads off? What what's gonna happen? So they just
all run around. They just run around, Well, am I
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supposed to?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Who does do?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They send somebody from the Department of Justice to pick
out are that one over there?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That one? And then you know they're.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
All holding their necks up, big me, big me, pardon me,
pardon me. But be careful, you know, sticking your neck
up trying to get pardoned, because you might get whacked
off at the same time. So Trump does this little
entertainment yesterday. Now, the annual Turkey part of the White House,
some say is a fun tradition and that it is
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ostensibly to allow us to set aside political ranker in
favor of some holiday cheer. Well, Trump's never going to
set aside political ranker. But he was also somewhat funny
in going after his opponents yesterday.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And there was some.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Initial welcoming comments. And here's how he began. In a
few moments. I will grant a full, absolute and unconditional
presidential pardon to two handsome Thanksgiving turkeys, and this is
their lucky day. This is a lucky day for them.
But before going any further, I want to make an
important and announcement because you remember last year, after a
thorough and very rigorous investigation by Pam Bondi and all
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the people to the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA,
the White House Council's Office, and the Department of Everything.
See I kind of like that, the Department of Everything.
We have a Department of everything. You know what it is.
I think it's called the White House into a terrible
situation caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden. He
used an auto pin last year for the Turkey's pardon.
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So I have the official duty to determine, and I
have determined that last year's Turkey pardons are totally invalid,
as are the pardons of about every other person that
was pardoned other than wait, where's Hunter? No, No, Hunter
was good. That was the one pardon, Pam. That was
no good pardon, right. The rest of them are all invalid.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I don't know what the hell you're going to do
about that, But now we're going to take a little
of the joking. That is a mess. But they're here.
By Nolan Void. The Turkey is known as Peach and Blossom.
Last year had been located, and they run their way
to be processed, in other words, to be killed.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
But I've stopped.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I've stopped that journey and I am now officially pardoning
them and they will not be served for Thanksgiving dinner.
We saved them in the nick of time who.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Had some Thanksgiving turkeys, and this is their lucky day.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
This is a lucky day for them.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But before going any further, I want to make an
important announcement because you remember last year, after a thorough
and very rigorous investigation by Pam Bondi and all of
the people that Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA,
the White House Counsel's Office, and the Department of Everything.
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We have a Department of Everything, you know that is
I think that's called the.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
White House.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Into a terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy
Joe Biden. He used an auto pen last year for
the turkey's pardon. So I have the official duty to
determine and I have determined that last year's turkey pardons
are totally invalid, as are the pardons of about every
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other person that was pardoned other than Where's Hunter. No
Hunters was good? That was the one parton family was
good right. The rest of there all in valid. I
don't know what the hell you're going to do about that,
but that's now we're get to take a little of
the joke. And that is a mess. But there here
by Nol and Voyd. The turkeys known as Peach in
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Blossom last year have been located and they were on
their way to be processed, in other words, to be killed.
But I have stopped that journey and I am officially
pardoning them and they will let be served for Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We saved them in the.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Name, we saved them for all on behalf of all
the other turkeys that burn't pardoned. Pete wants to know
what about them. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family,
and have a great one, and happy Thanksgiving to you too. Now,
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somebody said that the earlier talk back they thought was
fake and it was a I. And because that one
was so nice and compliment, I think that was the
fake one, and that was AI because based on the
text line, ooh, people are really ticked off today. Guaranteed
human get thright. Guaranteed human listeners aren't guaranteed be human.
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But you know, at least we're guaranteed to be human.
Let's see, where was I going to go? Oh, I
lost my place. Imagine that losing my place to grasp
kind of the raw malice that characterizes academia. Consider that
the University of Minnesota create You know, they have a
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lab that's dedicated to eradicating what they call the fight
this pandemic. See, we've always got a pandemic going on.
Right now, measles are endemic in Canada and everybody's blaming
Bobby Kennedy Jr. I don't know how that happens, but
apparently there's a causal link between Bobby Kennedy Jr. Who
simply questions, which I always thought was what science does
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that He in the efficacy of some vaccines. He questioned
the safety of some vaccines. But now we have a
measles outbreak in Canada that is endemic, and that's Bobby
Kennedy's fault.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, we have a whiteness pandemic. Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You can talk about this over Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. The
lab is under the University's Institute of Child Development and
is funded in part by the National Institutes on Mental Health.
There's a predoctoral fellowship program.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So what it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Really means is that institutionalized race is now funded by
a coercive basis by.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You as a taxpayer. But Michael, it's the University of Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I live in Colorado, or I live in Wisconsin, I
live in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
No wait wait, wait, wait wait.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
This is the National Institute of Mental Health and they
funded through grants through that, So taxpayers all over the
country get to fund a program, a lab that deals
with the whiteness pandemic, and it is that's institutionalized race
hate funded by American taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Happy Thanksgiving everybody.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
There's a university paper that is sited on the labs
website and it allies its strategy for combating.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The whiteness pandemic.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So you might want to take notes on this, so
you know tomorrow if you have a mixed race family,
you know, for dinner, you have launch your dinner. I
know we have the kind of in between somewhere. If
you have a mixed race family, you might want to
bring this up. See how that goes. Quote naming the
whiteness pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects
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of racism onto the systems that perpetuate and perpetuate racism
starting with the family system. Oh, families, got it, He
goes on to say, at birth, young children growing up
in white families begin to be socialized into the culture
of whiteness, making the family system one of the most
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powerful systems involved in systemic racism. I'm I'm sorry, I
may pause for a moment and catch my breath. At birth,
young children growing up in white families began to be
socialized into the culture of whiteness.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
What if that sentence.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Said at birth, young Asian children growing up in Asian
families begin to be socialized into the culture of asianeness.
Or if a sentence read at birth, young black children
growing up or young children growing up in black families
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begin to be socialized into the culture of blackness, making
the family system one of the most powerful systems involved
in the systemic racism. At some point, don't you realize
just how insane this bull crap is. Seriously, you gotta
pay attention to this, so you know what the solution is,
destroy the family. In the paper's explanation of the whiteness pandemic,
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it explains that racism is not only an epidemic, but
a pandemic because of its large cross national proportion and spread.
But behind racism, the curriculum explains, is the whiteness pandemic,
beginning with the family system. According to the paper's definition,
when children are raised in white families, they begin to
be socialites in that culture of weight of whiteness and
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by systemic racism. I think what they really mean is
just American culture.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
They came up with a so called air quotes here
vaccine against sarskov two. Maybe they'll find one to vaccinate
white families against white nests.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
People say they want another chilly chalkback.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I looked around the un I see it is so
oh no, we talked back for you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Rush Limbaugh always had his annual Thanksgiving story, what he
called the true Story of Thanksgiving. It was his retelling
of William Bradford and the Pilgrims, how they had abandoned
a communal proto socialist arrangement at Plymouth and started adopting
private property and free enterprise, which Rush argued made the
first Thanksgiving actually possible. He drew that story from Bradford's journal,
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as interpreted in a book that Brush wrote called See
I told you so. And then he later wove that
same story into another book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
He used it every single year as a parable about
the failures of collectivism, the moral value of work, and
of course his gratitude to God for the blessings of liberty.
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He is a great story. The Wall Street Journal every
year publishes they did yesterday. They publish the same editorial
they published for decades about the meaning of Thanksgiving. And
they do the same thing on Christmas. And I always
look forward to, you know, I read the same editorial
every single year, and I always look forward to hearing
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Rush tell the story. He framed the familiar grade school
Thanksgiving narrative about the Pilgrims, the Indians, you know, a
shared feast, as be the incomplete story because it downplayed
the pilgrim's initial experiment with the communal economic system, a
socialist system. In Russia's telling, the London backers require that
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the colonists pool their labor and their production into a
common store, with all of the land and the output
held in common, and then distribute it equally, regardless of
anybody's effort to put anything into the store, and Rush
argued that this commune structure did several things that suppressed initiative.
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They had bread, resentment, and of course, obviously, as we
know from history, it contributed to continued scarcity even after
the worst of the first winner had passed. Now, according
to Russia's account, Governor Bradford eventually concluded that the communal
arrangement was both costly and destructive, and so he decided
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to get rid of it start all over. And Bradford
then assigned every family its own plot of land private property,
allowed them to keep or trade what they produced, and
effectively introduced private property and free enterprise.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Into the colonies.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And Rush emphasized that once people had clear ownership and
a personal insanity incnitive, that that was when productivity surged,
because more cornless planted and the colony produced a surplus
that made a true Thanksgiving celebration possible.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Story, you see, because Thanksgiving in America is usually told,
as he would say, as a story of rescue. The
desperate pilgrims are on the edge of extinction. There is
going to be a harsh New England winter, and these
compassionate Native American Indians who showed them how to fish,
plant corn and survive. A story that we all grew
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up with in grade school. Right, Well, that story is
not wrong, but his Rush would say it was incomplete
because it leaves out the hard lessons that those Pilgrims
learned about human nature, about a work ethic, and about
the difference between owning something and merely sharing in somebody
else's effort. The holiday in Russia's annual retelling is not
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simply about full bellies after being hungry. It's about a
failed social experiment that had to die. It had to
die before a struggling colony could go on and live.
So when the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth under Governor Bradford,
they didn't initially live in a world of family farms
and private plots. The financial backers in London had imposed
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a system that required everything, all their land, their houses,
their tools, and all the fruits of their labor to
be held in common with production, poured into a shared
storehouse and then rationed back out to every colonist on.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
An equal basis.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
If Russia are alive today, he would say, it was
based on equity. Everybody got the same thing, didn't matter
who you were or what you did. Now, I think
too many people. Not all young people, but I think
a lot of young people. It sounds very noble, no rich,
no poor, just a really good community laboring together and
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then sharing the proceeds of their labor. But in practice,
as Rush loved to point out, it looked a lot
like every other communal scheme tried before or since. The
industrious quietly wondered, you know, why should I break my
back so that those who were indifferent, lazy than they're
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do well could just coast The less motivated discovered that
they would eat just as well as if they had
exerted themselves and worked really hard or not, and because
of that the entire colony suffered. Now, Rush always used
communal and get I think that's an appropriate word. But
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I think with the election of Zophram in New York,
with the election of whatever her name is, I don't
remember in Seattle, but with a lot of lower level
Democrats and the alexandri At Cossia Cortez's of the world
actually coming out and proudly proclaiming themselves to be Democrats
socialists of America, I think that the word communal on
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to be removed from Russi's telling the story and instead
of be yeah, it's just pure an adult rate of socialism.
Bradford Governor Bradford's own account, which Rush quoted in Populi
he made very very popular records records that this early
collectivism bred confusion and discontent, and it was especially true
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among the young men, who resent having to work harder
while others contributed less. Women women were conscripted into field labor,
it feels that they didn't own and labor, which they
may the fruits of their labor might be a lot
more than they would ever get, which Bradford described as
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a form of slavery to other men's husbands. And the
resentment that naturally human nature just says, there's going to
be resentment. You can't tell me that at some point
in your life you haven't felt resentful because a family
member or a friend or somebody else, you know, got
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something that you didn't think they deserved. They didn't work
for it, they inherited it, or they got you know,
they did you know, well, everybody's fair share. It really
is slavery, and it is slavery to the weakness and
the laziness of those who refuse to participate in their
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own self determination, to refuse to participate in their own productivity.
And when that resentment goes unchecked, that breaks the bonds
of a community instead of strengthening a community. When you
think about how strength in a community, you think about
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the number of times that we come together during Thanksgiving
or Christmas, to a lesser degree, sometimes during Easter, but
at least in.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Christendom, there seems to.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Be these kind of you if you graft it out,
it would be kind of like an ekg except to
be a spike every once in a while. Those spikes
would be a Thanksgiving and Christmas when everybody feels very
very generous, and so for those that are less fortunate,
we have food drives or we make contributions to you know,
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the bell ringers will be out for the Salvation Army,
and so people will be throwing gold coins or dollars
or whatever into into the kettles. I'm always amazed at
how this time of year we feel that desire to
help those less fortunate than us. And then January one
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comes around. We have big parties on New Year's Eve.
We you know, kind of get sober back on New
Year's Day and then on the next day when we
go back to work, and all that feeling kind of disappears.
And it's always kind of bugged me because I think again,
it's we're kind of living in the pre Bradford era
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of the London financiers saying, just give us all of you,
you know, all of your productivity. We'll collect all that
through taxes, and then we'll distribute that out to people
as we see fit, based on rules and regulations that
we will say we're going to adhere to, but which
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we really don't, so that people then take advantage of
our forced compassion as opposed to our volunteer compassion that
we're so willing to exhibit during the holidays. It is slavery,
and that resentment really does break the bonds of a
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community under that regime. Even as the climate moderated and
the colonists started to get more experienced, the harvest still
remained meager, and the fear of famine never really disappeared.
Scarcity was not merely a product of the rocky soil
and the cold weather. It was truly the predictable outcome
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of a system that had been forced upon Bradford that
detached reward from responsibility, and at the same time that
blurred the line between charity and entitlement. We see exactly
the same thing today. It's just what I just explained about.
We all feel charitable, but then people who don't earn
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have a sense of entitlement. So back to Bradford, well,
he was faced with that reality. He did something that
every planner of Utopia's dreads, and this took guts. He
admitted that model it doesn't work. So he scrubbed the
communal structure, the socialist structure, and he replaced it with
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a simple radical reform. At the time, every family got
their own plot of land to cultivate. They had to
manage it, they had to improve it. And what's they
produced was theirs to enjoy. And if they had access,
they could trade it, or they could store it. They
could do whatever with it as they saw fit. So
the colony did not abandon cooperation. It abandoned compulsory collectivism
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and replaced that with voluntary exchange. It was rooted in
clear private property ownership, and the effect was immediate and
I think very dramatic. Bradford noted in his journals that
families planted more, they worked harder, they became very industrious,
and that far more corn went into the ground than
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under the old system. Why because the harvest now belonged
to the hands that had tilled the soil. Russia Limb
seized on that as one of history's great teachable moments.
The Pilgrims, long before Karl Marx, had actually tested a
form of socialism, and they discovered that had undermine both
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virtue and survival. When you have work and rewards separate,
in the flourishes and the lazy live off the diligence.
When property responsibility get put together, they're reunited, they become one.
Then energy and creativity begin to flourish, and the common
good gets advanced. Why does it get advanced because now
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you're working for yourself. I come in here. I know
I'm working for a giant, you know, publicly traded company.
But what I do I do for myself and what
I do for myself, yeah, they give me a nice
compensation for that. I take that compensation and I use
it for charitable giving to do what I want to
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do with it. And I bet I spend my compensation
much more effectively than if everybody in this building was
part of a communal you know, organization, and all our
salaries went into one pot and then I heeartdivity is out,
so everybody got equal benefits, equal salaries. Well, why would
I want to be a part of that. I put
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into this program all of the energy and the effort
to try to, you know, make you interested. Some of
you I irritate, some of you. I think I make happy.
But that's because I just do what I enjoy and
talk about what I talk about, and he gets the
results are the ratings that the company sees that says, oh,
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we like what he's doing and we ought to compensate
him appropriately.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Back to Rush.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
In Russia's telling, the first real Thanksgiving feast flowed from
that transformation that I was talking about. For the first time,
the colony had not just enough to survive, the actually
had a surplus. They had food to share, food to trade,
food to celebrate with their Native American Indian neighbors. Their
gratitude to God was not some abstract idea. It was
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gratitude for providential course correction that aligned their economic life
with human nature. With human nature as it is not
as some social theorists would wish it to be that's
the problem with these democrats, socialists of America, the Zophrams
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and the aocs, and the rest of the world that
somehow think that they can devise a system that will
somehow either force human nature into one set of attitudes,
or that they can work.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Around human nature. They can't do that.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
It simply cannot be done. The political lesson that Rush
drew could not have been clearer, because he warned that
modern nations flirting with socialism were replaying a script that
was written on the rocky shores of Plymouth hundreds of
years ago. Intentions pious rhetoric that cannot repeal the basic
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reality that people respond to incentives, that productivity requires ownership,
and that enforced or forced equality of outcomes eventually means
a charity. Equality of misery contrasts that the system that
protects private property, that rewards initiative, that allows a family
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an individual to enjoy the fruits of their labor, that
generates the very abundance that makes generosity and charity sustainable,
it would be much more sustainable in that sense. Thanksgiving
is not merely a feel good story about cooperation.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Between the builders and the Indians.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It is actually a constitutional holiday, a quiet annual toast
to what I would consider to be ordered liberty and
free enterprise, to free markets, to individual liberty and people
pursuing their own self interest, which then allows for innovation
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in both technology and services and products, and that allows
an economy to grow. A rising tide lifts all boats,
and sure enough we become the greatest nation on earth
because we didn't follow the London financiers who wanted to
use what today we call equity. Equity is nothing more
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than everybody is equal. And I think yet even further
beneath the policy argument lies the deeper human and spiritual
theme that also matters. That mattered to Rush, and I
think mattered to listeners like me. The Pilgrims didn't congratulate
themselves for their ingenuity. Instead, they thank God for granting
them the wisdom and the courage to actually change course,
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for sparing them from the consequences of their own misguided
economic ideas. Their feasts blended gratitude for immediate materi relief.
It was a battleful harvest of full storehouses, trade with
native neighbors, with gratitude for a new understanding of how
you could live together in community without denying individual responsibility.
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The lesson is a gratitude is not passive. It calls
people to steward their freedom, to reject a system that
will punish virtue and reward sloth, and to recognize that
prosperity that has built on honest work. It's something we
shouldn't resent, but something that we all to celebrate and share.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
If someone has the ingenuity, the.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
God given gift of whatever it is, to invent something,
or to come up with the new mouse trap, so
to speak, whatever it might be, and then to end
up making bazillions of dollars off, that we shouldn't resent that,
we should celebrate that, and we should celebrate that we
live in a country celebrates that individual liberty and individual freedom.
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So if you take that old story of pre Bradford's
conversion in the London Financiers, and if you take Russia's
Thanksgiving story and you combine all of that together and
replay it in your head today, Russia's Thanksgiving story functions
as both a warning and an invitation, because it warns
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that benevolent collectivist dreams, benevolent socialist dreams, however, however they
phrase whatever kind of words they use to make it
sound good, actually holds out of society's productive core, and
then it leads everybody poor, just as it did in Plymouth.
And it invites Americans to see Thanksgiving not just like
it's not just turkey and football, but it should be
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a yearly reminder that the blessings on the table are
inseparable from the system that made them possible, the family,
individual responsibility, and a free market that turns work into wealth.
I would challenge you to do that tomorrow. I don't
care how you celebrate Thanksgiving. I don't care whether you
go out to eat. I don't care whether you just
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cook burgers. Whatever it is, stop and think about whatever
it is on that table and everything that it took
to get it there, including your own productivity. To keep
Thanksgiving in that spirit is to remember, with the Pilgrims
and with Rush Limbaugh, that the proper response to our
blessings is not guilt or envy, but actually should be
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humble things and a renewed commitment to the principles.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That brought all of that forth. And if I.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Accomplish anything else today, it is that as a reminder
of what Rush said year after year after year, after
decades on radio, I forget when he first started doing that,
Or if you have access to the Wall Street Journal,
he'll read. Yesterday's lead house editorial reminds you just how
important this system that we live in is so wonderful
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and yet so tenuous that we must do everything to
preserve it. Happy Thanksgiving everyone,
Hey, Michael, just drove back from San Francisco in Miam
all the way to Lovely Libby, and I listened to
all your podcasts and I'm all caught up and you
are a word zeus. I want to say, when you
talk about sour chasm and being a smart ass, you're
exact on both points.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
You are a very sour chasm.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
But hey, once in a while, you are wickedly smart
as an ass.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Okay, thanks?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
How did the m do? By the way, And I'm
thinking about doing a trade in. I haven't decided, but
I'm thinking about doing a trade in. Mine's got too
many miles on it. And I hope you enjoyed the trip,
and I was san fran Did you see Nancy.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
While you were out there?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Our friends are with the Babylon Bee continue with their
amazing streak of truly great satire's prophecy. Well maybe it
was close Monday they headlined this quote Trump to execute
all turkeys pardoned by Biden's auto pin and then yesterday
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the President announced that Biden's pardons of last year's turkeys
were no void because of the autopin, but that he
had saved the turkeys, and then Nica time. I don't
know if there's ever been another president who's got as
much of an entertainer and him as what Trump does.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Now.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Sometimes it falls flat, as it will with any comedian,
and sometimes it really hits home. This one just kind
of struck me as okay, because truthfully, I kind of
dislike the whole pardon of the turkeys.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Every year.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I've always thought like one, I don't know and quite franky,
I don't care, but I'm kind of curious about of
the what millions of turkeys in the country. And I'm
not talking about you guys. I'm not talking about talk
show hosts. I'm talking about the real turkeys out there,
the ones that a lot of us are going to
eat tomorrow. How do you pick two? Who does the picking?
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Does Butterball do it? Is it a native ad? Is
this whole, this whole scam about pardoning turkeys? Is it
just a conspiracy by butter Ball to get attention every
year to their you know, they got the hotline. If
you have it, I forgot to thaw aout my turkey.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
What do I do? Are my turkey's not doing this?
What do I do? There are some you know eight
hundred number you can call. I don't know what it is.
I don't care.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But it's always just been kind of like really silly
to me, but not silly in a funny way, just
kind of silly in a stupid way. So the President
of the United States exercising one of the exclusive powers
that he has. And by the way, a turkey is
not a person, so I don't think it really applies constitutionally.
But now I'm just blame lawyer. But how do we
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pick the turkeys? And then do we really need two
turkeys every year? For what's the past fifty years however
long they've been doing it, and they get sent off
to what some farm somewhere where they just die of
old age. I mean, isn't that kind of a waste
of turkey? And then what about so, you know, have
you ever been to a turkey farm. I've been to
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a turkey farm. I've been to a turkey farm in
New Mexico. And you walk up and of course they're
really dumb birds, and they can't decide whether to run
away from you or to come to you because they know,
are are you here to feed us? Or are you
here to pick one of us? Out, you're gonna shop
our heads off? What what's gonna happen? So they just
all run around. They just run around, Well, am I
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supposed to?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Who does do?
Speaker 3 (03:36):
They send somebody from the Department of Justice to pick
out are that one over there?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
That one? And then you know they're.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
All holding their necks up, big me, big me, pardon me,
pardon me. But be careful, you know, sticking your neck
up trying to get pardoned, because you might get whacked
off at the same time. So Trump does this little
entertainment yesterday. Now, the annual Turkey part of the White House,
some say is a fun tradition and that it is
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ostensibly to allow us to set aside political ranker in
favor of some holiday cheer. Well, Trump's never going to
set aside political ranker. But he was also somewhat funny
in going after his opponents yesterday.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
And there was some.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Initial welcoming comments. And here's how he began. In a
few moments. I will grant a full, absolute and unconditional
presidential pardon to two handsome Thanksgiving turkeys, and this is
their lucky day. This is a lucky day for them.
But before going any further, I want to make an
important and announcement because you remember last year, after a
thorough and very rigorous investigation by Pam Bondi and all
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the people to the Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA,
the White House Council's Office, and the Department of Everything.
See I kind of like that, the Department of Everything.
We have a Department of everything. You know what it is.
I think it's called the White House into a terrible
situation caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden. He
used an auto pin last year for the Turkey's pardon.
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So I have the official duty to determine, and I
have determined that last year's Turkey pardons are totally invalid,
as are the pardons of about every other person that
was pardoned other than wait, where's Hunter? No, No, Hunter
was good. That was the one pardon, Pam. That was
no good pardon, right. The rest of them are all invalid.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I don't know what the hell you're going to do
about that, But now we're going to take a little
of the joking. That is a mess. But they're here.
By Nolan Void. The Turkey is known as Peach and Blossom.
Last year had been located, and they run their way
to be processed, in other words, to be killed.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
But I've stopped.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
I've stopped that journey and I am now officially pardoning
them and they will not be served for Thanksgiving dinner.
We saved them in the nick of time who.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Had some Thanksgiving turkeys, and this is their lucky day.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
This is a lucky day for them.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But before going any further, I want to make an
important announcement because you remember last year, after a thorough
and very rigorous investigation by Pam Bondi and all of
the people that Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA,
the White House Counsel's Office, and the Department of Everything.
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We have a Department of Everything, you know that is
I think that's called the.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
White House.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
Into a terrible situation caused by a man named Sleepy
Joe Biden. He used an auto pen last year for
the turkey's pardon. So I have the official duty to
determine and I have determined that last year's turkey pardons
are totally invalid, as are the pardons of about every
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other person that was pardoned other than Where's Hunter. No
Hunters was good? That was the one parton family was
good right. The rest of there all in valid. I
don't know what the hell you're going to do about that,
but that's now we're get to take a little of
the joke. And that is a mess. But there here
by Nol and Voyd. The turkeys known as Peach in
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Blossom last year have been located and they were on
their way to be processed, in other words, to be killed.
But I have stopped that journey and I am officially
pardoning them and they will let be served for Thanksgiving dinner.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We saved them in the.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Name, we saved them for all on behalf of all
the other turkeys that burn't pardoned. Pete wants to know
what about them. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family,
and have a great one, and happy Thanksgiving to you too. Now,
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somebody said that the earlier talk back they thought was
fake and it was a I. And because that one
was so nice and compliment, I think that was the
fake one, and that was AI because based on the
text line, ooh, people are really ticked off today. Guaranteed
human get thright. Guaranteed human listeners aren't guaranteed be human.
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But you know, at least we're guaranteed to be human.
Let's see, where was I going to go? Oh, I
lost my place. Imagine that losing my place to grasp
kind of the raw malice that characterizes academia. Consider that
the University of Minnesota create You know, they have a
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lab that's dedicated to eradicating what they call the fight
this pandemic. See, we've always got a pandemic going on.
Right now, measles are endemic in Canada and everybody's blaming
Bobby Kennedy Jr. I don't know how that happens, but
apparently there's a causal link between Bobby Kennedy Jr. Who
simply questions, which I always thought was what science does
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that He in the efficacy of some vaccines. He questioned
the safety of some vaccines. But now we have a
measles outbreak in Canada that is endemic, and that's Bobby
Kennedy's fault.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, we have a whiteness pandemic. Did you know that?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You can talk about this over Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. The
lab is under the University's Institute of Child Development and
is funded in part by the National Institutes on Mental Health.
There's a predoctoral fellowship program.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
So what it.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Really means is that institutionalized race is now funded by
a coercive basis by.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You as a taxpayer. But Michael, it's the University of Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
I live in Colorado, or I live in Wisconsin, I
live in Arizona.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
No wait wait, wait, wait wait.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
This is the National Institute of Mental Health and they
funded through grants through that, So taxpayers all over the
country get to fund a program, a lab that deals
with the whiteness pandemic, and it is that's institutionalized race
hate funded by American taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Happy Thanksgiving everybody.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
There's a university paper that is sited on the labs
website and it allies its strategy for combating.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
The whiteness pandemic.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
So you might want to take notes on this, so
you know tomorrow if you have a mixed race family,
you know, for dinner, you have launch your dinner. I
know we have the kind of in between somewhere. If
you have a mixed race family, you might want to
bring this up. See how that goes. Quote naming the
whiteness pandemic shifts our gaze from the victims and effects
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of racism onto the systems that perpetuate and perpetuate racism
starting with the family system. Oh, families, got it, He
goes on to say, at birth, young children growing up
in white families begin to be socialized into the culture
of whiteness, making the family system one of the most
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powerful systems involved in systemic racism. I'm I'm sorry, I
may pause for a moment and catch my breath. At birth,
young children growing up in white families began to be
socialized into the culture of whiteness.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
What if that sentence.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Said at birth, young Asian children growing up in Asian
families begin to be socialized into the culture of asianeness.
Or if a sentence read at birth, young black children
growing up or young children growing up in black families
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begin to be socialized into the culture of blackness, making
the family system one of the most powerful systems involved
in the systemic racism. At some point, don't you realize
just how insane this bull crap is. Seriously, you gotta
pay attention to this, so you know what the solution is,
destroy the family. In the paper's explanation of the whiteness pandemic,
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it explains that racism is not only an epidemic, but
a pandemic because of its large cross national proportion and spread.
But behind racism, the curriculum explains, is the whiteness pandemic,
beginning with the family system. According to the paper's definition,
when children are raised in white families, they begin to
be socialites in that culture of weight of whiteness and
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by systemic racism. I think what they really mean is
just American culture.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Now. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
They came up with a so called air quotes here
vaccine against sarskov two. Maybe they'll find one to vaccinate
white families against white nests.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
People say they want another chilly chalkback.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I looked around the un I see it is so
oh no, we talked back for you.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Rush Limbaugh always had his annual Thanksgiving story, what he
called the true Story of Thanksgiving. It was his retelling
of William Bradford and the Pilgrims, how they had abandoned
a communal proto socialist arrangement at Plymouth and started adopting
private property and free enterprise, which Rush argued made the
first Thanksgiving actually possible. He drew that story from Bradford's journal,
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as interpreted in a book that Brush wrote called See
I told you so. And then he later wove that
same story into another book, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
He used it every single year as a parable about
the failures of collectivism, the moral value of work, and
of course his gratitude to God for the blessings of liberty.
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He is a great story. The Wall Street Journal every
year publishes they did yesterday. They publish the same editorial
they published for decades about the meaning of Thanksgiving. And
they do the same thing on Christmas. And I always
look forward to, you know, I read the same editorial
every single year, and I always look forward to hearing
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Rush tell the story. He framed the familiar grade school
Thanksgiving narrative about the Pilgrims, the Indians, you know, a
shared feast, as be the incomplete story because it downplayed
the pilgrim's initial experiment with the communal economic system, a
socialist system. In Russia's telling, the London backers require that
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the colonists pool their labor and their production into a
common store, with all of the land and the output
held in common, and then distribute it equally, regardless of
anybody's effort to put anything into the store, and Rush
argued that this commune structure did several things that suppressed initiative.
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They had bread, resentment, and of course, obviously, as we
know from history, it contributed to continued scarcity even after
the worst of the first winner had passed. Now, according
to Russia's account, Governor Bradford eventually concluded that the communal
arrangement was both costly and destructive, and so he decided
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to get rid of it start all over. And Bradford
then assigned every family its own plot of land private property,
allowed them to keep or trade what they produced, and
effectively introduced private property and free enterprise.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Into the colonies.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
And Rush emphasized that once people had clear ownership and
a personal insanity incnitive, that that was when productivity surged,
because more cornless planted and the colony produced a surplus
that made a true Thanksgiving celebration possible.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Story, you see, because Thanksgiving in America is usually told,
as he would say, as a story of rescue. The
desperate pilgrims are on the edge of extinction. There is
going to be a harsh New England winter, and these
compassionate Native American Indians who showed them how to fish,
plant corn and survive. A story that we all grew
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up with in grade school. Right, Well, that story is
not wrong, but his Rush would say it was incomplete
because it leaves out the hard lessons that those Pilgrims
learned about human nature, about a work ethic, and about
the difference between owning something and merely sharing in somebody
else's effort. The holiday in Russia's annual retelling is not
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simply about full bellies after being hungry. It's about a
failed social experiment that had to die. It had to
die before a struggling colony could go on and live.
So when the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth under Governor Bradford,
they didn't initially live in a world of family farms
and private plots. The financial backers in London had imposed
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a system that required everything, all their land, their houses,
their tools, and all the fruits of their labor to
be held in common with production, poured into a shared
storehouse and then rationed back out to every colonist on.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
An equal basis.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
If Russia are alive today, he would say, it was
based on equity. Everybody got the same thing, didn't matter
who you were or what you did. Now, I think
too many people. Not all young people, but I think
a lot of young people. It sounds very noble, no rich,
no poor, just a really good community laboring together and
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then sharing the proceeds of their labor. But in practice,
as Rush loved to point out, it looked a lot
like every other communal scheme tried before or since. The
industrious quietly wondered, you know, why should I break my
back so that those who were indifferent, lazy than they're
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do well could just coast The less motivated discovered that
they would eat just as well as if they had
exerted themselves and worked really hard or not, and because
of that the entire colony suffered. Now, Rush always used
communal and get I think that's an appropriate word. But
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I think with the election of Zophram in New York,
with the election of whatever her name is, I don't
remember in Seattle, but with a lot of lower level
Democrats and the alexandri At Cossia Cortez's of the world
actually coming out and proudly proclaiming themselves to be Democrats
socialists of America, I think that the word communal on
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to be removed from Russi's telling the story and instead
of be yeah, it's just pure an adult rate of socialism.
Bradford Governor Bradford's own account, which Rush quoted in Populi
he made very very popular records records that this early
collectivism bred confusion and discontent, and it was especially true
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among the young men, who resent having to work harder
while others contributed less. Women women were conscripted into field labor,
it feels that they didn't own and labor, which they
may the fruits of their labor might be a lot
more than they would ever get, which Bradford described as
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a form of slavery to other men's husbands. And the
resentment that naturally human nature just says, there's going to
be resentment. You can't tell me that at some point
in your life you haven't felt resentful because a family
member or a friend or somebody else, you know, got
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something that you didn't think they deserved. They didn't work
for it, they inherited it, or they got you know,
they did you know, well, everybody's fair share. It really
is slavery, and it is slavery to the weakness and
the laziness of those who refuse to participate in their
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own self determination, to refuse to participate in their own productivity.
And when that resentment goes unchecked, that breaks the bonds
of a community instead of strengthening a community. When you
think about how strength in a community, you think about
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the number of times that we come together during Thanksgiving
or Christmas, to a lesser degree, sometimes during Easter, but
at least in.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Christendom, there seems to.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Be these kind of you if you graft it out,
it would be kind of like an ekg except to
be a spike every once in a while. Those spikes
would be a Thanksgiving and Christmas when everybody feels very
very generous, and so for those that are less fortunate,
we have food drives or we make contributions to you know,
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the bell ringers will be out for the Salvation Army,
and so people will be throwing gold coins or dollars
or whatever into into the kettles. I'm always amazed at
how this time of year we feel that desire to
help those less fortunate than us. And then January one
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comes around. We have big parties on New Year's Eve.
We you know, kind of get sober back on New
Year's Day and then on the next day when we
go back to work, and all that feeling kind of disappears.
And it's always kind of bugged me because I think again,
it's we're kind of living in the pre Bradford era
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of the London financiers saying, just give us all of you,
you know, all of your productivity. We'll collect all that
through taxes, and then we'll distribute that out to people
as we see fit, based on rules and regulations that
we will say we're going to adhere to, but which
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we really don't, so that people then take advantage of
our forced compassion as opposed to our volunteer compassion that
we're so willing to exhibit during the holidays. It is slavery,
and that resentment really does break the bonds of a
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community under that regime. Even as the climate moderated and
the colonists started to get more experienced, the harvest still
remained meager, and the fear of famine never really disappeared.
Scarcity was not merely a product of the rocky soil
and the cold weather. It was truly the predictable outcome
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of a system that had been forced upon Bradford that
detached reward from responsibility, and at the same time that
blurred the line between charity and entitlement. We see exactly
the same thing today. It's just what I just explained about.
We all feel charitable, but then people who don't earn
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have a sense of entitlement. So back to Bradford, well,
he was faced with that reality. He did something that
every planner of Utopia's dreads, and this took guts. He
admitted that model it doesn't work. So he scrubbed the
communal structure, the socialist structure, and he replaced it with
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a simple radical reform. At the time, every family got
their own plot of land to cultivate. They had to
manage it, they had to improve it. And what's they
produced was theirs to enjoy. And if they had access,
they could trade it, or they could store it. They
could do whatever with it as they saw fit. So
the colony did not abandon cooperation. It abandoned compulsory collectivism
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and replaced that with voluntary exchange. It was rooted in
clear private property ownership, and the effect was immediate and
I think very dramatic. Bradford noted in his journals that
families planted more, they worked harder, they became very industrious,
and that far more corn went into the ground than
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under the old system. Why because the harvest now belonged
to the hands that had tilled the soil. Russia Limb
seized on that as one of history's great teachable moments.
The Pilgrims, long before Karl Marx, had actually tested a
form of socialism, and they discovered that had undermine both
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virtue and survival. When you have work and rewards separate,
in the flourishes and the lazy live off the diligence.
When property responsibility get put together, they're reunited, they become one.
Then energy and creativity begin to flourish, and the common
good gets advanced. Why does it get advanced because now
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you're working for yourself. I come in here. I know
I'm working for a giant, you know, publicly traded company.
But what I do I do for myself and what
I do for myself, yeah, they give me a nice
compensation for that. I take that compensation and I use
it for charitable giving to do what I want to
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do with it. And I bet I spend my compensation
much more effectively than if everybody in this building was
part of a communal you know, organization, and all our
salaries went into one pot and then I heeartdivity is out,
so everybody got equal benefits, equal salaries. Well, why would
I want to be a part of that. I put
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into this program all of the energy and the effort
to try to, you know, make you interested. Some of
you I irritate, some of you. I think I make happy.
But that's because I just do what I enjoy and
talk about what I talk about, and he gets the
results are the ratings that the company sees that says, oh,
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we like what he's doing and we ought to compensate
him appropriately.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Back to Rush.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
In Russia's telling, the first real Thanksgiving feast flowed from
that transformation that I was talking about. For the first time,
the colony had not just enough to survive, the actually
had a surplus. They had food to share, food to trade,
food to celebrate with their Native American Indian neighbors. Their
gratitude to God was not some abstract idea. It was
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gratitude for providential course correction that aligned their economic life
with human nature. With human nature as it is not
as some social theorists would wish it to be that's
the problem with these democrats, socialists of America, the Zophrams
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and the aocs, and the rest of the world that
somehow think that they can devise a system that will
somehow either force human nature into one set of attitudes,
or that they can work.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Around human nature. They can't do that.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
It simply cannot be done. The political lesson that Rush
drew could not have been clearer, because he warned that
modern nations flirting with socialism were replaying a script that
was written on the rocky shores of Plymouth hundreds of
years ago. Intentions pious rhetoric that cannot repeal the basic
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reality that people respond to incentives, that productivity requires ownership,
and that enforced or forced equality of outcomes eventually means
a charity. Equality of misery contrasts that the system that
protects private property, that rewards initiative, that allows a family
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an individual to enjoy the fruits of their labor, that
generates the very abundance that makes generosity and charity sustainable,
it would be much more sustainable in that sense. Thanksgiving
is not merely a feel good story about cooperation.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Between the builders and the Indians.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
It is actually a constitutional holiday, a quiet annual toast
to what I would consider to be ordered liberty and
free enterprise, to free markets, to individual liberty and people
pursuing their own self interest, which then allows for innovation
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in both technology and services and products, and that allows
an economy to grow. A rising tide lifts all boats,
and sure enough we become the greatest nation on earth
because we didn't follow the London financiers who wanted to
use what today we call equity. Equity is nothing more
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than everybody is equal. And I think yet even further
beneath the policy argument lies the deeper human and spiritual
theme that also matters. That mattered to Rush, and I
think mattered to listeners like me. The Pilgrims didn't congratulate
themselves for their ingenuity. Instead, they thank God for granting
them the wisdom and the courage to actually change course,
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for sparing them from the consequences of their own misguided
economic ideas. Their feasts blended gratitude for immediate materi relief.
It was a battleful harvest of full storehouses, trade with
native neighbors, with gratitude for a new understanding of how
you could live together in community without denying individual responsibility.
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The lesson is a gratitude is not passive. It calls
people to steward their freedom, to reject a system that
will punish virtue and reward sloth, and to recognize that
prosperity that has built on honest work. It's something we
shouldn't resent, but something that we all to celebrate and share.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
If someone has the ingenuity, the.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
God given gift of whatever it is, to invent something,
or to come up with the new mouse trap, so
to speak, whatever it might be, and then to end
up making bazillions of dollars off, that we shouldn't resent that,
we should celebrate that, and we should celebrate that we
live in a country celebrates that individual liberty and individual freedom.
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So if you take that old story of pre Bradford's
conversion in the London Financiers, and if you take Russia's
Thanksgiving story and you combine all of that together and
replay it in your head today, Russia's Thanksgiving story functions
as both a warning and an invitation, because it warns
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that benevolent collectivist dreams, benevolent socialist dreams, however, however they
phrase whatever kind of words they use to make it
sound good, actually holds out of society's productive core, and
then it leads everybody poor, just as it did in Plymouth.
And it invites Americans to see Thanksgiving not just like
it's not just turkey and football, but it should be
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a yearly reminder that the blessings on the table are
inseparable from the system that made them possible, the family,
individual responsibility, and a free market that turns work into wealth.
I would challenge you to do that tomorrow. I don't
care how you celebrate Thanksgiving. I don't care whether you
go out to eat. I don't care whether you just
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cook burgers. Whatever it is, stop and think about whatever
it is on that table and everything that it took
to get it there, including your own productivity. To keep
Thanksgiving in that spirit is to remember, with the Pilgrims
and with Rush Limbaugh, that the proper response to our
blessings is not guilt or envy, but actually should be
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humble things and a renewed commitment to the principles.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
That brought all of that forth. And if I.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Accomplish anything else today, it is that as a reminder
of what Rush said year after year after year, after
decades on radio, I forget when he first started doing that,
Or if you have access to the Wall Street Journal,
he'll read. Yesterday's lead house editorial reminds you just how
important this system that we live in is so wonderful
(33:07):
and yet so tenuous that we must do everything to
preserve it. Happy Thanksgiving everyone,
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