January 19, 2022 • 24 mins
RUSH: All right. So look at that headline right there: “Republicans and Democrats Clash Over Police Reform.” You know what this is about? This is about an actual piece of legislation that is being argued and debated in the United States Senate.
And I did a double take because that’s not how laws are made in our country anymore. The Senate and House don’t actually do anything anymore ’cause they’re all afraid to. Our laws come from regulators, unelected bureaucrats and our judges, as has just been demonstrated by these Supreme Court decisions.
Josh Hawley from Missouri got it exactly right when he was complaining about Gorsuch and the decisions on the sexual discrimination cases being lapped into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. You know, to put this in perspective, to show you how we conservatives — look, folks, I don’t want to dispirit you here. I’ve already got a story here of polling data — well, a poll shows that half of Americans are unhappy. Let me find the actual headline. Yeah. “Americans Are the Unhappiest They’ve Been in 50 Years.” Not half of Americans. The unhappiest they’ve been in 50 years. Does that not make sense?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Alright, So look at that headline right there, Republicans and
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Democrats clash over police reform. You know what this is about.
This is about an actual piece of legislation that is
being argued and debated in the United States Senate. And
I did a double take because that's that's not how
laws are made in our country anymore. The Senate in
the House don't actually do anything anymore because they're all
afraid to Our laws come from regulators, unelected bureaucrats, and
(00:27):
our judges. That has just been demonstrated by these Supreme
Court decisions. Josh Holly from Missouri got it exactly right
when he was complaining about gorstch and the decisions on
the sexual discrimination cases being lapped into the nine four
Civil Rights Act. You know, to put this in perspective
(00:48):
to show you how we conservatives and look, folks, I
don't want to dispirit you here. I've already got a
story here appolling data that suh well, but poll shows
that half of Americans are unhappy. What is that in
the actual headline? Yeah, Americans are unhappiest they've been in
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fifty years. Not in half of Americans unhappiest and they've
been in fifty years. Does that not make sense? But
but but here, I don't want to disparage you here,
But do we ever hear about liberal judges not advancing
the liberal cause we do not. They never make a
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mistake when they appoint a judge. Isn't that amazing? They
never get fooled. They appointed judge, and that judge knows
his job. That judge is to write the law as
it uh should be under liberalism, we don't do that.
We have these people that that fed that that rate
judges and recommend them to the president. And we picked
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the best conservatives we can find based non conservative principles
and so forth. Didn't we roll the dice? But the
bottom line, conservative judges do not consider themselves at all
like liberal judges do. How you might say, well, that's
the way it ought to be, you know, to be
that way. They ought to judge cases based on the law,
not their agenda. Well, that's why we keep losing because
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we are not We're not on the playing field. We're
not We're not. We are engaged in a battle for
the kind of country we're gonna have. Why do you
think the American people are suggesting that they're more unhappy
than they've ever been. None of what's happening now is normal.
None of what's happening now is anything people would design,
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including the lockdowns, the shutdowns, the pandemic, the ineffective way
of dealing with it, the fake news, all of these
public protests, all these malcontents. Look at what we've done,
Lyndon Johnson Civil Rights Act nineteen sixty four. What have
we have. We had a great society, We've had the
war on poverty. We've had over four trillion dollars of
(03:06):
wealth transferred two producers from producers, taxpayers to um to
people who were discriminated against, their worse off today than
they were before all this happened. This is one of
Shelby Steele's big points. After all of this supposed help,
it's one of my big points to after all of
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this help, after all this compassion, after all this assistance
provided by the Democrat Party, we've got an angrier population
of minorities than we have ever had. And most people
in this country do not think they're racist. They think
they've gone out of their way to avoid being racists.
They've gone out of their way to be accommodating. They've
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gone out of their way to be sympathetic. It doesn't compute.
Most people are asked, what the hell else can I do? Now?
If you get into the millennial demograph, pick they're not
old enough to have had this perspective yet. And I
have mentioned the past couple of days, and this is
true that the vast majority of violent protests, not all,
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but the vast majority of violent protests are being conducted
by white millennial kids. And in that group, it's a
hell of a lot of women. They have been totally
their minds and brains have been totally commandeered. You you
parents who have kids at college or recently were at
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college and have come you know exactly what I'm talking about.
After two years there, they come home and they start
telling you how you're racist, you're destroying the planet with
climate change, you have you're you're listening to complaints about
your parenting and the way you from the country that
you don't even recognize. But your kids have been indoctrinated
to believe that this country is white privileged, it's white systemic,
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it's not a white Uh. Get these two terms confused
white white privlic white supremacy, and the dangerous thing is.
I've seen that, and I've had parents call here to
start agreeing with their kids. Their kids are coming over
in college and persuading them that they're right. So then
when the kids go to Seattle start burning things down,
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the parents are proud of them. Other people, what what
the hell has happened to our country? There's there? What is?
What is there to be if you take it in
the big picture of things right? And what is there
to be happy about? Well, we're alive, but that doesn't
count because everybody takes that for granted. Every day. Uh,
let's see economy maybe coming back. Well we have, but
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there you notice that there's an effort to try to
dispirit you on that there is an effort it is
ongoing and never ending to depress you, to dispirit you.
I just m I find I find so much of
this totally explainable. Why people are the unhappy. Look at
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this headline, Manhattan DA refuses declines to prosecute the man
arrested who committed vandalism against St. Patrick's Cathedral. Do you
realize how often this is happening all over the country.
The vandals, the rioters, the looters, None of them are
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being prosecuted. Why do you think that is well, because
at the root of it is Black Lives Matter, and
everybody is scared to death of him, literally scared to
death of them, and so it's just the path of
least resistance. Okay, we catch somebody looting, we catch a
bunch of people looting, mandalizing, no prosecution. There's this firm
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out there that has raised thirty million dollars to bail
some of these perps out of jail. You know how
much they've spent as of yesterday, two dollars. So there's
twenty nine million, eight hundred thousand dollars hasn't been spent
yet that has been raised on bail for Black Lives
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Matter and other type purps. Where where's that money? Where's
that money going? I'll guarandamnt you that money is going
right to the Democrat Party. It's going right to the
presidential campaign, It's going right to the Democrat National Committee.
What do you mean where's it going? The only place
it can go? And I all of this talk about
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these police departments and how racist they are, and how
how how bigoted, and and how out of control they are,
didn't Obama and Eric Holder have the Department of Justice
take over something like thirty six of these police departments
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under consent decrees. They took over police departments from Oakland
to Baltimore. I I tried in Saint loud Vitt, Ferguson, Uh,
dozens of cities in between. And you know why they
did it. These consent decrees are well known. It was
the way Obama wanted to federalize local police forces. He
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and Holder had this as an objective, federalized, having me
federal government control over as much as possible, including local policing.
Thirty six American police departments were taken over by the
federal government. They were demanded, they were told that they
had to do certain things and if they couldn't that
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the consent decree would apply. And they were given impossible
conditions to meet. And so a number of these police departments,
and I'm not kidding Oakland Bolivar ended up under the
control of the federal government. So how can there be
any police racism or brutality after police departments have been
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under the enlightened control of the Obama Holder administration. How
does that happen? How is it that places that have
been run by the Democrat Party for decades. How is
it that there's any racism anywhere in these cities, much
less just the police department. The Democrat Party promises to
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end all of that, and they promised to punish all
the people responsible for it, US Conservative Republicans, And yet
we don't have a presence in the navy any of
these cities where we have any ability to shape the
law or regulations. This is all on the Democrat Party.
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And I'll tell you, I think a lot of these
statues coming down and all of this stuff going on,
I think it is Democrats doing the best to get
rid of their symbols of failure. Like the Democrats are
doing everything they can to divert everybody's attention away from
what has been decades of failure, failed promises, failed implementations
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of policy. Is virtually everything they've been promising, particularly minority communities,
hasn't come to pass. The minority communities are angrier today
than they've ever been. After four trillion dollars, a transfer
of wealth for the Great Society programs and me um
war on poverty, all of those things that LBJ created.
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Listen to Shelby Steel. He will tell you that the
black community in terms of education, in terms of jobs,
in terms of standard of living, they were all doing better,
including in Harlem. They were all doing better before the
War on Poverty, before the Great Society. And he will
tell you that the Great Society was not in the
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War on poverty. It was not. They were not about
actually improving the lives of African Americans. They were all
about improving the political prospects of politicians who supported the legislation.
It was the greatest example of I care you've ever seen.
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It had gazillion dollar price tax to it, It had
all kinds of blame, It had all kinds of promises.
But as we know now, we could watch the country
burn in various blue cities after various blue cities, in
various blue states, and we can see by the evidence
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in our eyes that there hasn't been anything that the
Democrat Party has engaged in that has made one person
in the minority community they claim to serve happy. I'm
still zeroed in on this, uh story. Uh, the the
Americans are unhappiest that they've been in fifty years. Pole Shoal.
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By the way, that this poll was taken by something
called Nork you know r C. This is not defined
in this stupid story, so I don't know what it is.
It's it's it's NORK at the University of Chicago, so
I've never heard of it. Um. The senior research scientist
with NORK at the University of Chicago is Louise Hawkley,
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and she says that well, loneliness surprisingly was not more
prevalent among people who claim that they're unhappier than ever.
Loneliness is not as high as it could be. People
to figure out a way to connect with others. It
is not satisfactory, but people are managing just some extent um.
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Most of it, I guess is based on people's fear
for their kids economic future, which makes total sense, I mean, um,
although that's a common parental concern in in good times
as well. So apparently is a new China outbreak in
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in pay Beijing. It's caused them to halt flights, to
shut schools, residents just as they were in Wuhana not
being rounded up and sent to who knows where. So
it's if you, depending on the fake news you look at,
you can find any reason in the world to be unhappy.
As the point Carolyn in Virginia Beach. You're up first today.
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Great to have you other program. Hello, why thank you
for listening to me and mega prayers and diddos. I
was just going to say that I think that the
unhappiness is just another sign that Trump is going to
win again. Okay, UM, tell me why so? Because it's
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the same thing like it was back in two thousand
sixteen where we were forced not to speak the truth,
the same thing is happening all over again. You're not
allowed to raise your voice, show your flag, um, and
because the cancel culture will come down on you hard.
You see all these companies out there really honestly making
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fools of themselves with all of this stuff. And I'm
I've been doing a lot of reading and and listening,
and I feel like there's gonna be many more Black
Americans voting for Trump than the left wants to admit,
and so they're just trying to continue to scare us. You.
It's really hard to find anything positive to listen to
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on the media or to read these days. But when
you do find something like I found something last night
where um, this woman who was sounds like she was
a pretty flaming liberal went to his Trump rally and
actually enjoyed herself and says she's going to vote for Trump,
and um, so I just think that they're just they're
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we're being scared and we just have to stand up
for the troops and for our country. And one more thing,
Tim Scott today did an amazing job with this whole
police reform which they also don't want us to get
They don't want Trump to get through. And you want
to talk about somebody four, I think Tim Scott is
in there too, because could you explain something to me, Caroline,
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don't get mad at me, folks. What is it in
this reform bill that Tim Scott and these other guys
are planning? What is it? I mean, you like it? What? What?
What's in it? You're thinking? I don't know that I
necessarily like it, but I feel like some of the
stuff that especially if they can came down the the unions.
I mean, unfortunately, I know that the union's help good
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cops sometimes, but it might be that there helping bad
cops more than more helping good cops. Until they were
talking something about dealing with the unions a little bit.
I'm not sure about the whole choke cloding my nephew
is a police officer, and I know that it's really
hard to take people down sometimes. But the things that
we've been shown, I bet you have a mean show
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called you sound like somebody have a mean choker. You
sound like a no nonsense chokeholder. Well you're you're They're
not going to get me, all right. Well, I appreciate
the call. I understand. I understand the sentiment that with
this poll out there was so much American and unhappiness,
it pretty much translates into a Donald Trump re election. Now,
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keep in mind, and I don't have to tell you
this that the media medium not they're not media whatever, whatever,
the Democrats and mean whatever the hell they are, they
are attempting to the reason for this pole more Americans
that are unhappy to because of Trump, because of what
Trump's done, because of the mockery Trump is made of
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the White House and the presidency, and Trump's the reason
people are unhappy. Trump's the reason they're burning down cities.
Trump is the reason that white cops think they can
go out and kill black for the Trump's that they're
trying to throw all of this off on Trump, either
directly or indirectly, but regardless how they're trying it. They
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want that to be the conclusion. Folks, I'm telling I'll
take one more time. What they're really trying to do
is convinced all of you Trump voters that none of
this would be happening if you hadn't elected Trump in
the first place, that you ultimately responsible for this, that
these people will tell you know, we'll go back to
being saying we will go back to being cooperative and nice,
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not what you get to that guy. You have ruined
his country by electing that guy. And here's the reason
that we've gone and saying he's the reason we're crazy.
You elected him. You get rid of him, and I
guarantee you they'll say the country you'll get back to
normal and none of this will continue. That's what they
want you to believe. However, they go about convincing you
of it. They want you to believe all this is
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your fault, it's your responsibility. You elected the guy, and
you stand by him, that everything they're doing is justified
because he's so dangerous, he's so unqualified, he's so stupid.
Their insanity is justified because of Donald Trump, and you
made it happen. Just trying to warn you of the
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pressure that you are going to be under incoming months.
Here's Diane and Allantown, Pennsylvania. You're next. Hello, good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you for taking my calls every day for you.
Thank you. Okay, so um, what I've been thinking about
is while we have citizens of the country imposing and
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infringing and impinging on the rights of other citizens with
these uh Marxists UH takeovers and marches and these all
the anarchy, well our government is focusing on is reforming
the police. Once again, we're bending over to make the
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left happy while practically ignoring what they're doing. Now, I'd
like to know what you think about that. I think
that is right on the money than I started the
program talking about the Senate doing legislation on police reform
and how unusual it is ex actually see the Senate
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or the House actually working on a bill because legislation
doesn't come from me Congress anymore, comes from judges or
from unregulated, unelected regulators up on various cabinet levels. But
I think you're exactly right, and but that this is
what happens, This is exactly what Republicans do. So let's
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go back to two thousand nine. Barack who's saying, oh,
is the president and we've known since the campaign of
two thou eight that he was going to try to
nationalize American healthcare and that was going to be called Obamacare,
and we are expecting our party to push back on this.
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There is no way the Republican Party is for socioalized medicine.
There is no way the Republican Party is for single payer.
And a bunch of Republicans ran for office in two
thousand eight on that promise to oppose it. So Obama
brings it up, and what's the Republican response. Okay, but
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we think we can do it better, We think we
can do it smarter. They were afraid to oppose Obama
because what race. They were scared to death to oppose Obama,
to criticize the Obama and disagree with Obama on anything.
And so that's when the Tea Party erupted. A bunch
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of people who had never formally been involved in politics
came out of the woodwork organically. They were upset at
all the spending, they were upset at the legislation itself.
The Republican Party and Democrat Party were blindsided by it,
there was no singular leader to attack to destroy it,
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and they were opposed. They were scared to death of
the Tea Party, so they immediately created Occupy Wall Street
as a supposed organic Democrat uprising. But the bottom line
is that the Republican reaction was not to push back,
but rather to say, we think we can do it smarter.
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It was a pure pander. Now we have police reform,
don't forget. There are two elements of this, and one
of them is an executive order by the President. And
then we have this legislation that Tim Scott and others
are running in the Senate contain opportunity zones and and
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some other things. But you're writes the same thing. Okay,
so a bunch of cops, well, let me rephrase that,
a few cops do some really stupid, disgusting things, and
protests and discord erupt all over. At what do we do.
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We act like it's our fault, we act like they're right,
it's our fault. We've got to prove to them that
we're not like those cops. We got to prove to
them that we're not racist. So look what we're gonna
come up with? A police reform bill. Pelosi and Schumer
sit there and smile. They don't have to do diddly
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squad act. They can oppose it all day long as
it doesn't go far enough. Pelosi can sit there and say,
I'm gonna kill this bill by throwing a bunch of
spending in it that you can't possibly support. You think
they're gonna let the Republicans get away with winning this?
I think. Do you think they're gonna let the Republicans
succeed in carrying the mantle of police reformists into the
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presidential election. There's no way. But you're right. It's not pushedback.
It's the exact opposite. It's some people call it pandering.
Other people would call it path at least resistance or
what have you. Regardless, what it does is accept the
status quo and accept that we might do We might
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be somewhat responsible for it. No, we might be what
We'll fix it because it's just so much easier to
tell these people go to hell and straight nothing, fly
right and stop the bs. Nobody's inclined to do that.
Nobody is inclined to say that. There's not a single
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I don't I don't know of a single elected official
who will say that to any of the vandals, any
of the looters, and the people that are destroying and
rioting and common during private property. We've got prosecutors that
are vacating charges against people who have been caught after
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looting Macy's, after having been caught burning down buildings and stores.
Prosecutors are racing in Los Angeles, at California, New York.
They are racing to absolve these purps and to announce
they won't be charged. I mean, it couldn't be being
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handled in a worse way than what we are witnessing.
Alright, So look at that headline right there, Republicans and
(00:03):
Democrats clash over police reform. You know what this is about.
This is about an actual piece of legislation that is
being argued and debated in the United States Senate. And
I did a double take because that's that's not how
laws are made in our country anymore. The Senate in
the House don't actually do anything anymore because they're all
afraid to Our laws come from regulators, unelected bureaucrats, and
(00:27):
our judges. That has just been demonstrated by these Supreme
Court decisions. Josh Holly from Missouri got it exactly right
when he was complaining about gorstch and the decisions on
the sexual discrimination cases being lapped into the nine four
Civil Rights Act. You know, to put this in perspective
(00:48):
to show you how we conservatives and look, folks, I
don't want to dispirit you here. I've already got a
story here appolling data that suh well, but poll shows
that half of Americans are unhappy. What is that in
the actual headline? Yeah, Americans are unhappiest they've been in
(01:11):
fifty years. Not in half of Americans unhappiest and they've
been in fifty years. Does that not make sense? But
but but here, I don't want to disparage you here,
But do we ever hear about liberal judges not advancing
the liberal cause we do not. They never make a
(01:32):
mistake when they appoint a judge. Isn't that amazing? They
never get fooled. They appointed judge, and that judge knows
his job. That judge is to write the law as
it uh should be under liberalism, we don't do that.
We have these people that that fed that that rate
judges and recommend them to the president. And we picked
(01:54):
the best conservatives we can find based non conservative principles
and so forth. Didn't we roll the dice? But the
bottom line, conservative judges do not consider themselves at all
like liberal judges do. How you might say, well, that's
the way it ought to be, you know, to be
that way. They ought to judge cases based on the law,
not their agenda. Well, that's why we keep losing because
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we are not We're not on the playing field. We're
not We're not. We are engaged in a battle for
the kind of country we're gonna have. Why do you
think the American people are suggesting that they're more unhappy
than they've ever been. None of what's happening now is normal.
None of what's happening now is anything people would design,
(02:43):
including the lockdowns, the shutdowns, the pandemic, the ineffective way
of dealing with it, the fake news, all of these
public protests, all these malcontents. Look at what we've done,
Lyndon Johnson Civil Rights Act nineteen sixty four. What have
we have. We had a great society, We've had the
war on poverty. We've had over four trillion dollars of
(03:06):
wealth transferred two producers from producers, taxpayers to um to
people who were discriminated against, their worse off today than
they were before all this happened. This is one of
Shelby Steele's big points. After all of this supposed help,
it's one of my big points to after all of
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this help, after all this compassion, after all this assistance
provided by the Democrat Party, we've got an angrier population
of minorities than we have ever had. And most people
in this country do not think they're racist. They think
they've gone out of their way to avoid being racists.
They've gone out of their way to be accommodating. They've
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gone out of their way to be sympathetic. It doesn't compute.
Most people are asked, what the hell else can I do? Now?
If you get into the millennial demograph, pick they're not
old enough to have had this perspective yet. And I
have mentioned the past couple of days, and this is
true that the vast majority of violent protests, not all,
(04:15):
but the vast majority of violent protests are being conducted
by white millennial kids. And in that group, it's a
hell of a lot of women. They have been totally
their minds and brains have been totally commandeered. You you
parents who have kids at college or recently were at
(04:37):
college and have come you know exactly what I'm talking about.
After two years there, they come home and they start
telling you how you're racist, you're destroying the planet with
climate change, you have you're you're listening to complaints about
your parenting and the way you from the country that
you don't even recognize. But your kids have been indoctrinated
to believe that this country is white privileged, it's white systemic,
(05:02):
it's not a white Uh. Get these two terms confused
white white privlic white supremacy, and the dangerous thing is.
I've seen that, and I've had parents call here to
start agreeing with their kids. Their kids are coming over
in college and persuading them that they're right. So then
when the kids go to Seattle start burning things down,
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the parents are proud of them. Other people, what what
the hell has happened to our country? There's there? What is?
What is there to be if you take it in
the big picture of things right? And what is there
to be happy about? Well, we're alive, but that doesn't
count because everybody takes that for granted. Every day. Uh,
let's see economy maybe coming back. Well we have, but
(05:43):
there you notice that there's an effort to try to
dispirit you on that there is an effort it is
ongoing and never ending to depress you, to dispirit you.
I just m I find I find so much of
this totally explainable. Why people are the unhappy. Look at
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this headline, Manhattan DA refuses declines to prosecute the man
arrested who committed vandalism against St. Patrick's Cathedral. Do you
realize how often this is happening all over the country.
The vandals, the rioters, the looters, None of them are
(06:35):
being prosecuted. Why do you think that is well, because
at the root of it is Black Lives Matter, and
everybody is scared to death of him, literally scared to
death of them, and so it's just the path of
least resistance. Okay, we catch somebody looting, we catch a
bunch of people looting, mandalizing, no prosecution. There's this firm
(07:04):
out there that has raised thirty million dollars to bail
some of these perps out of jail. You know how
much they've spent as of yesterday, two dollars. So there's
twenty nine million, eight hundred thousand dollars hasn't been spent
yet that has been raised on bail for Black Lives
(07:26):
Matter and other type purps. Where where's that money? Where's
that money going? I'll guarandamnt you that money is going
right to the Democrat Party. It's going right to the
presidential campaign, It's going right to the Democrat National Committee.
What do you mean where's it going? The only place
it can go? And I all of this talk about
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these police departments and how racist they are, and how
how how bigoted, and and how out of control they are,
didn't Obama and Eric Holder have the Department of Justice
take over something like thirty six of these police departments
(08:07):
under consent decrees. They took over police departments from Oakland
to Baltimore. I I tried in Saint loud Vitt, Ferguson, Uh,
dozens of cities in between. And you know why they
did it. These consent decrees are well known. It was
the way Obama wanted to federalize local police forces. He
(08:35):
and Holder had this as an objective, federalized, having me
federal government control over as much as possible, including local policing.
Thirty six American police departments were taken over by the
federal government. They were demanded, they were told that they
had to do certain things and if they couldn't that
(08:57):
the consent decree would apply. And they were given impossible
conditions to meet. And so a number of these police departments,
and I'm not kidding Oakland Bolivar ended up under the
control of the federal government. So how can there be
any police racism or brutality after police departments have been
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under the enlightened control of the Obama Holder administration. How
does that happen? How is it that places that have
been run by the Democrat Party for decades. How is
it that there's any racism anywhere in these cities, much
less just the police department. The Democrat Party promises to
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end all of that, and they promised to punish all
the people responsible for it, US Conservative Republicans, And yet
we don't have a presence in the navy any of
these cities where we have any ability to shape the
law or regulations. This is all on the Democrat Party.
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And I'll tell you, I think a lot of these
statues coming down and all of this stuff going on,
I think it is Democrats doing the best to get
rid of their symbols of failure. Like the Democrats are
doing everything they can to divert everybody's attention away from
what has been decades of failure, failed promises, failed implementations
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of policy. Is virtually everything they've been promising, particularly minority communities,
hasn't come to pass. The minority communities are angrier today
than they've ever been. After four trillion dollars, a transfer
of wealth for the Great Society programs and me um
war on poverty, all of those things that LBJ created.
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Listen to Shelby Steel. He will tell you that the
black community in terms of education, in terms of jobs,
in terms of standard of living, they were all doing better,
including in Harlem. They were all doing better before the
War on Poverty, before the Great Society. And he will
tell you that the Great Society was not in the
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War on poverty. It was not. They were not about
actually improving the lives of African Americans. They were all
about improving the political prospects of politicians who supported the legislation.
It was the greatest example of I care you've ever seen.
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It had gazillion dollar price tax to it, It had
all kinds of blame, It had all kinds of promises.
But as we know now, we could watch the country
burn in various blue cities after various blue cities, in
various blue states, and we can see by the evidence
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in our eyes that there hasn't been anything that the
Democrat Party has engaged in that has made one person
in the minority community they claim to serve happy. I'm
still zeroed in on this, uh story. Uh, the the
Americans are unhappiest that they've been in fifty years. Pole Shoal.
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By the way, that this poll was taken by something
called Nork you know r C. This is not defined
in this stupid story, so I don't know what it is.
It's it's it's NORK at the University of Chicago, so
I've never heard of it. Um. The senior research scientist
with NORK at the University of Chicago is Louise Hawkley,
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and she says that well, loneliness surprisingly was not more
prevalent among people who claim that they're unhappier than ever.
Loneliness is not as high as it could be. People
to figure out a way to connect with others. It
is not satisfactory, but people are managing just some extent um.
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Most of it, I guess is based on people's fear
for their kids economic future, which makes total sense, I mean, um,
although that's a common parental concern in in good times
as well. So apparently is a new China outbreak in
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in pay Beijing. It's caused them to halt flights, to
shut schools, residents just as they were in Wuhana not
being rounded up and sent to who knows where. So
it's if you, depending on the fake news you look at,
you can find any reason in the world to be unhappy.
As the point Carolyn in Virginia Beach. You're up first today.
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Great to have you other program. Hello, why thank you
for listening to me and mega prayers and diddos. I
was just going to say that I think that the
unhappiness is just another sign that Trump is going to
win again. Okay, UM, tell me why so? Because it's
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the same thing like it was back in two thousand
sixteen where we were forced not to speak the truth,
the same thing is happening all over again. You're not
allowed to raise your voice, show your flag, um, and
because the cancel culture will come down on you hard.
You see all these companies out there really honestly making
(14:36):
fools of themselves with all of this stuff. And I'm
I've been doing a lot of reading and and listening,
and I feel like there's gonna be many more Black
Americans voting for Trump than the left wants to admit,
and so they're just trying to continue to scare us. You.
It's really hard to find anything positive to listen to
(14:58):
on the media or to read these days. But when
you do find something like I found something last night
where um, this woman who was sounds like she was
a pretty flaming liberal went to his Trump rally and
actually enjoyed herself and says she's going to vote for Trump,
and um, so I just think that they're just they're
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we're being scared and we just have to stand up
for the troops and for our country. And one more thing,
Tim Scott today did an amazing job with this whole
police reform which they also don't want us to get
They don't want Trump to get through. And you want
to talk about somebody four, I think Tim Scott is
in there too, because could you explain something to me, Caroline,
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don't get mad at me, folks. What is it in
this reform bill that Tim Scott and these other guys
are planning? What is it? I mean, you like it? What? What?
What's in it? You're thinking? I don't know that I
necessarily like it, but I feel like some of the
stuff that especially if they can came down the the unions.
I mean, unfortunately, I know that the union's help good
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cops sometimes, but it might be that there helping bad
cops more than more helping good cops. Until they were
talking something about dealing with the unions a little bit.
I'm not sure about the whole choke cloding my nephew
is a police officer, and I know that it's really
hard to take people down sometimes. But the things that
we've been shown, I bet you have a mean show
(16:26):
called you sound like somebody have a mean choker. You
sound like a no nonsense chokeholder. Well you're you're They're
not going to get me, all right. Well, I appreciate
the call. I understand. I understand the sentiment that with
this poll out there was so much American and unhappiness,
it pretty much translates into a Donald Trump re election. Now,
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keep in mind, and I don't have to tell you
this that the media medium not they're not media whatever, whatever,
the Democrats and mean whatever the hell they are, they
are attempting to the reason for this pole more Americans
that are unhappy to because of Trump, because of what
Trump's done, because of the mockery Trump is made of
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the White House and the presidency, and Trump's the reason
people are unhappy. Trump's the reason they're burning down cities.
Trump is the reason that white cops think they can
go out and kill black for the Trump's that they're
trying to throw all of this off on Trump, either
directly or indirectly, but regardless how they're trying it. They
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want that to be the conclusion. Folks, I'm telling I'll
take one more time. What they're really trying to do
is convinced all of you Trump voters that none of
this would be happening if you hadn't elected Trump in
the first place, that you ultimately responsible for this, that
these people will tell you know, we'll go back to
being saying we will go back to being cooperative and nice,
(17:59):
not what you get to that guy. You have ruined
his country by electing that guy. And here's the reason
that we've gone and saying he's the reason we're crazy.
You elected him. You get rid of him, and I
guarantee you they'll say the country you'll get back to
normal and none of this will continue. That's what they
want you to believe. However, they go about convincing you
of it. They want you to believe all this is
(18:20):
your fault, it's your responsibility. You elected the guy, and
you stand by him, that everything they're doing is justified
because he's so dangerous, he's so unqualified, he's so stupid.
Their insanity is justified because of Donald Trump, and you
made it happen. Just trying to warn you of the
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pressure that you are going to be under incoming months.
Here's Diane and Allantown, Pennsylvania. You're next. Hello, good afternoon, Rush.
Thank you for taking my calls every day for you.
Thank you. Okay, so um, what I've been thinking about
is while we have citizens of the country imposing and
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infringing and impinging on the rights of other citizens with
these uh Marxists UH takeovers and marches and these all
the anarchy, well our government is focusing on is reforming
the police. Once again, we're bending over to make the
(19:24):
left happy while practically ignoring what they're doing. Now, I'd
like to know what you think about that. I think
that is right on the money than I started the
program talking about the Senate doing legislation on police reform
and how unusual it is ex actually see the Senate
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or the House actually working on a bill because legislation
doesn't come from me Congress anymore, comes from judges or
from unregulated, unelected regulators up on various cabinet levels. But
I think you're exactly right, and but that this is
what happens, This is exactly what Republicans do. So let's
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go back to two thousand nine. Barack who's saying, oh,
is the president and we've known since the campaign of
two thou eight that he was going to try to
nationalize American healthcare and that was going to be called Obamacare,
and we are expecting our party to push back on this.
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There is no way the Republican Party is for socioalized medicine.
There is no way the Republican Party is for single payer.
And a bunch of Republicans ran for office in two
thousand eight on that promise to oppose it. So Obama
brings it up, and what's the Republican response. Okay, but
(20:51):
we think we can do it better, We think we
can do it smarter. They were afraid to oppose Obama
because what race. They were scared to death to oppose Obama,
to criticize the Obama and disagree with Obama on anything.
And so that's when the Tea Party erupted. A bunch
(21:12):
of people who had never formally been involved in politics
came out of the woodwork organically. They were upset at
all the spending, they were upset at the legislation itself.
The Republican Party and Democrat Party were blindsided by it,
there was no singular leader to attack to destroy it,
(21:34):
and they were opposed. They were scared to death of
the Tea Party, so they immediately created Occupy Wall Street
as a supposed organic Democrat uprising. But the bottom line
is that the Republican reaction was not to push back,
but rather to say, we think we can do it smarter.
(21:56):
It was a pure pander. Now we have police reform,
don't forget. There are two elements of this, and one
of them is an executive order by the President. And
then we have this legislation that Tim Scott and others
are running in the Senate contain opportunity zones and and
(22:16):
some other things. But you're writes the same thing. Okay,
so a bunch of cops, well, let me rephrase that,
a few cops do some really stupid, disgusting things, and
protests and discord erupt all over. At what do we do.
(22:38):
We act like it's our fault, we act like they're right,
it's our fault. We've got to prove to them that
we're not like those cops. We got to prove to
them that we're not racist. So look what we're gonna
come up with? A police reform bill. Pelosi and Schumer
sit there and smile. They don't have to do diddly
(22:59):
squad act. They can oppose it all day long as
it doesn't go far enough. Pelosi can sit there and say,
I'm gonna kill this bill by throwing a bunch of
spending in it that you can't possibly support. You think
they're gonna let the Republicans get away with winning this?
I think. Do you think they're gonna let the Republicans
succeed in carrying the mantle of police reformists into the
(23:24):
presidential election. There's no way. But you're right. It's not pushedback.
It's the exact opposite. It's some people call it pandering.
Other people would call it path at least resistance or
what have you. Regardless, what it does is accept the
status quo and accept that we might do We might
(23:50):
be somewhat responsible for it. No, we might be what
We'll fix it because it's just so much easier to
tell these people go to hell and straight nothing, fly
right and stop the bs. Nobody's inclined to do that.
Nobody is inclined to say that. There's not a single
(24:11):
I don't I don't know of a single elected official
who will say that to any of the vandals, any
of the looters, and the people that are destroying and
rioting and common during private property. We've got prosecutors that
are vacating charges against people who have been caught after
(24:32):
looting Macy's, after having been caught burning down buildings and stores.
Prosecutors are racing in Los Angeles, at California, New York.
They are racing to absolve these purps and to announce
they won't be charged. I mean, it couldn't be being
(24:54):
handled in a worse way than what we are witnessing.
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