I Warned You About What We’re Living Through Today

RUSH: Hey, folks, it’s great to be back. Really great to be back, and I need to ask you a favor. I need to you to give me a few minutes here just to get my sea legs. This has been a very, very bad couple of weeks for me. I don’t want to get into any more detail about it. Those of you have been through this know exactly what I’m talking about. But it has not been a break in the sense that it hasn’t been restful or relaxing or any kind of what people would call a vacation.

But I wanted to get back, and here we are behind the Golden EIB Microphone, the Rush Limbaugh program where every show seems like the most important show, where every caller matters, every caller, people moved to the edge of their chairs to hear what the caller says, and every program reverberates with the truth that the country we are born in is the best.

Great to have you with us. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. And I’m sure that numbers of you want to weigh in, and we’ll do our best here to get to as many people on the phones today as possible. If you want to send an email, the address is [e-mail].

First thing I want to do, folks, I want to go back to audio sound bites. And, by the way, part of getting my sea legs today is I’m gonna be hitting this cough button a lot, not to cough, but to do other bodily things that would sound rude to do on the air. So there’s gonna be a little dead air during the program today. But that’s not a major thing. Nothing to worry about. I just want to prepare you for the fact that that is… (interruption) No, I’m talking about blowing my nose. Don’t go there, Snerdley. I’m just talking about blowing my nose. Not about other stuff.

Anyway, the primary — well, it’s hard to say “primary.” So many people want to weigh in on so much today and I don’t really blame you. There’s gonna be an infinite number of emotions and explanations today, and I’m gonna be weighing in myself on all of this. But I want to take you back to October 10th, 2016. This is before the election in 2016. This is before Donald Trump stunned the world in 2016. And the reason I want to play the sound bite for you is that I warned everybody of the very real possibility of what we are living through today. And can I tell you what we’re living through today?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Fox, it's great to be back, really great to

(00:02):
be back. And I need to ask your favor I
need you to give you give me a few minutes
here just to get my sea legs. This has been
a very, very bad couple of weeks for me. I
don't want to get into any more detail about it.
Those of you been through this, no exactly what I'm
talking about. But it has not been um well, it's

(00:23):
not been a break in the sense that it hasn't
been RESTful or relaxing or any kind of what people
would call a vacation. But I wanted to get back.
And here we are behind the golden e IB microphone,
the Russia Limball program, where every show seems like the
most important show, where every caller matters every caller, people

(00:46):
moved to the edge of their chairs to hear what
the caller says, and every program reverberates with the truth
that the country we are born in is the best.
Great to have you with us. Telephone number is eight
hundred to eight two, eight two, and I'm sure that

(01:07):
numbers of you want to weigh in, and we'll do
our best here to get to as many people on
the phones today as possible. Um, if you want to
send an email, the addresses l rush Bow at e
I b net dot us. First thing I want to do, folks,
I want to I want to go back to audio
sound bite. And by the way, part of getting my

(01:31):
sea legs today is is, Um, I'm gonna be hitting
this cough button a lot, uh, not to cough, but
to do other bodily things that would sound rude to
do on the air. So there's gonna be a little
dead air during the program today. UM, but it's that's
not a major thing, nothing to worry about. I just

(01:52):
wanted to prepare you for the fact that that that is.
No I'm talking about blowing my nose. Don't go there snartily.
I'm just talking about along my nose and my other stuff. Anyway. Um.
The the primary, well, it's hard to say primary. So
many people want to weigh in on and so much today, UM,

(02:16):
and I don't really blame you. There's gonna be a
infinite number of emotions and explanations today and I'm gonna
be weighing in myself on all of this. But I
want to take you back to October two thousand sixteen.
This is before the election in two thousand sixteen. This

(02:40):
is before Donald Trump stunned the world in two thousand sixteen.
And the reason I want to play the SoundBite for
you is that I warned everybody of the very real
possibility of what we are living through today. And can
I tell you what we're living through today? Let me

(03:02):
let me just give it to you in one short
sentence fragment one wrong word, dot dot dot. The listening
devices are out there, people monitoring this program at others,
they're out there and they're waiting for just one wrong word.

(03:27):
That's how precariously balanced we all are here. For example. Uh,
before I get to this sound bite, see something I
just said reminded me of something, a point that I
wanted to make, and that is Bill Barr. Let me
find it. Bill Barr has everybody's condemning Trump. I mean, really,

(03:47):
that's the point everybody, now, Lindsey Graham, we've got that
sound bite. In fact, that's late in the stack. Let
me see if I can find the number. Have fourteen
standing by as well? Um. The Attorney General, William Barr,
who has resigned, said that Trump betrayed the presidency by

(04:10):
inciting a mob, and I had a number of people
send me this, How can you do this? How can
these people be abandoning Trump? Let me explain it to
you and I'll get right to audio. SoundBite number eighteen.
If you today desire a life in Washington, d C.
And I don't just mean if you want to be

(04:32):
in the Washington establishment quote unquote, if you desire a
life in Washington, official Washington. I don't mean if you
want to work at Riggs Bank. I mean if you
want if you want to if you want to live
in the political elected class in Washington, you have to
say that. You have to say it. There's no alternative

(04:53):
for you. If you're elected, you might have Like Josh
Hawley is not backing down, Matt Gates is not backing down,
but most of them are. Because they desire a life
in Washington. They have to say Trump betrayed the presidency.
Here's what I said October two thousand and sixteen. The establishment,

(05:18):
with everything they are invested in the establishment, remaining the
establishment and in power. They're just not gonna sit back
and trust this to your votes. They're gonna trust this
to an election, to a campaign. They're gonna trust it
at all. They're gonna do everything they can to destroy
whoever it is that wants to take control from them,

(05:39):
and in the process they're going to destroy that person.
So I have to send a message to the next guy.
Don't even think about it, don't even try. Look what
we did to Donald Trump, Look what we did to
whoever is the message. Don't doubt me. That's that's three
weeks before the election in two thousand and sixteen. How

(06:00):
was I able to say it? Now? You know, I
know the people on the left. I know exactly who
the enemy is. I know what we're up against, and
I know who they are, and I know how they think,
and I know how they roll, I know how they live,
I know how you don't do this to them. You
don't do it. And the first chance you give them

(06:22):
to eliminate you, they are going to take it. Now,
let's go to Monday Serious Radio satellite radio, the Dean
Obadatta Show. Talking to Hank Johnson, Congressman Democrat Georgia question,
it would be so detrimental to our party if the
Biden administration would say, well, Trump did some bad things,

(06:43):
but let's look forward. It would be so destructive to
our party If that's the way. In other words, they
want to scalp. They want somebody buried. They want a coffin, folks,
they want a political coffin. There's none this Richard Nixon stuff.
Let's put him on Air Force one, sending them out
to San Louis Obispo and let us forget him San Clementi, wherever.

(07:10):
There's none of this. George w Bors sent him down
to Dallas, and let's just pretend it never happened. They
want a political coffin. Here's what Hank Johnson said in
reaction to that claim. We don't want to be nice,
we don't want to move forward. We want blood that
We've got to make sure that those who come after

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Donald Trump know that they will not be allowed to
get away with what Donald Trump did, that they would
be held accountable. They will be treated, yes, like negroes.
They will be perp walked to the jail, hands handcuffed,
not in front of them but behind them, and they
will be booked, fingerprinted, have to make bun and have

(07:56):
to hire a lawyer just like everybody else, and go
through the system. We allow him to get away with it,
there will be others who try to do the same thing,
and we don't even want them to think about trying
to do what Trump has done. There you go, So
three weeks before the election, I essentially predicted exactly what's
happened yesterday and today to Donald Trump, to you who

(08:21):
voted for him. Hank Johnson comes along on Monday and
confirms it. He doesn't know he's confirming what I said
because he doesn't know what I said, because Hank Johnson
doesn't listen, but he'll talk to people about me as
though he does. Here's Lindsey Graham last night Senate floor
after debate resumed on the objection to the Arizona electoral votes.

(08:46):
Trump and I We've had a hell of a journey.
I hate it. Then this way, Oh my god, I
hate it. For my point of view. He's been a
consequential president. But today, first thing you'll see. All I
can say is count me out. Enough is enough. I've
tried to be helpful. There you have it. If you
want a life in Washington, you have to say that,

(09:10):
if you want a life in the political class, even
as a loser Republican, you have to say that. That's
the reality of life on the ground in Washington today.
And it will be the case tomorrow. I don't know
for how long it's going to be the case, but
it is the immediate future, so get used to it.

(09:33):
The voices of descent will be silenced on Facebook and Twitter,
including Donald Trump, including you. The voices of dissent will
be dealt with accordingly. We live and work today treading
and walking a minefield, folks, one wrong word. Privately, we

(09:57):
knew something like this might explode. Mhm. I predicted it.
Not to make a big deal of that, but I
predicted it in two thousand and sixteen, even before the election,
and it was not based on Trump then it was,
but it was based on how you do not due
to the Washington establishment what Trump was in the process

(10:18):
of do it. You just don't do it. You don't
do it, you don't get away whether you don't survive it.
If you do get away with it, that's what I knew. Well,
there's a way to survive it. We've shown we didn't
know how. And the reason we didn't know how is
that not enough people know the left. That's why I

(10:43):
said to you the last day I was here in
two thousand and twenty that I feel like in much,
not much but in some of what I've done here
the last thirty years, I've failed. I failed to properly
educate and inform people about most important aspect of our politics.

(11:03):
Who is the American and worldwide left. The way you
survived these kind of things is knowing the answer to that.
Not enough people on our side, elected officials included, have
the foggiest idea even today who they are. And I
don't mean by facial recognition, I mean by the way

(11:26):
they think. Their lack of conventional morality, their lack of
a devotion to traditions and institutions that we all used
to hold dear and have in common. Remind you of

(11:47):
a John Adams quote here, one of my favorite founding fathers.
By the way, John Adams said, maybe you'll listen if
I say John Adams tweeted, yeah, not to ticket. John
Adams tweeted this back in the eighteen hundreds Acts of

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seventeen hundreds. Zuckerberg didn't know how to censor his own network.
Then we have no government armed with power capable of condemning, sorry,
contending with human passion unbridled by morality and religion. Other words,
you have to translate these guys we do not have

(12:30):
a constitution. We do not have the power to deal
with immoral and unreligious or irreligious people. Avarice, ambition, revenge,
gallantry would break the strongest chords of our constitution as
a whale goes through a net. In other words, our

(12:52):
constitution is not made for people who are not moral.
Constitution is not made for people who are irreligious. Our
constitution is designed, said John Adams, only for a moral
and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.
He knew, He knew that that was the limitation, because

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that's who they were.