{"id":213837,"date":"2016-06-23T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T23:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/06\/23\/the_facebook_video_that_has_my_cousin_wanting_to_quit_social_media\/"},"modified":"2016-06-23T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T23:55:13","slug":"the_facebook_video_that_has_my_cousin_wanting_to_quit_social_media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/23\/the_facebook_video_that_has_my_cousin_wanting_to_quit_social_media\/","title":{"rendered":"The Facebook Video That Has My Cousin Wanting to Quit Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/videos\/37\/71979\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<section xmlns:image=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/image\/\" xmlns:xhtml=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/xhtml\/\" xmlns:custom=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/custom\/\">\n<p>RUSH: So last night, minding my own business, bothering nobody, I get an email from my cousin\u2019s son.&nbsp; So what would that be?&nbsp; Cousin once removed, nephew once removed, I don\u2019t know what it is.&nbsp; Stephen III, I\u2019ve told you, he\u2019s a concert pianist and composer.&nbsp; In fact, he did the music for Dinesh D\u2019Souza\u2019s new and upcoming <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/hillarysamericathemovie.com\/\">movie on Hillary.<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said, &#8220;I am seriously considering deleting every social media account I\u2019ve got and just maintaining a professional website for business purposes.&#8221;&nbsp; He\u2019s a Millennial.&nbsp; He says: &#8220;Another reason why social media is the absolute worst, becoming a wasteland,&#8221; he sent me a link to a Facebook account, Facebook page, which I sent to Koko so you can watch.&nbsp; You can go to RushLimbaugh.com.&nbsp; Koko, go ahead and link it now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m gonna take a break, I\u2019m gonna come back and tell you what this is.&nbsp; And you\u2019ll understand why he\u2019s just losing faith in the overall intelligence of average, ordinary Americans.&nbsp; It\u2019s self-explanatory when you hear it, when we get back.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u5nld6HzEjM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So the email.&nbsp; This is what my cousin once removed found on Fakebook that\u2019s just causing him maybe to abandon it.&nbsp; You go to the link. We put it at RushLimbaugh.com.&nbsp; What you\u2019ll find is there\u2019s some guy with a Mohawk claiming that he has rigged his truck to get 56% better gas mileage by using two jars of water with some baking soda that causes his engine to waste less energy.&nbsp; The title of this post is, &#8220;Oil Companies Don\u2019t Want You to See This.&#8221;&nbsp; Every generation has these.&nbsp; I remember growing up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember all the charlatans out there telling me how, &#8220;Oh, yeah, they\u2019ve got the ability to get a hundred miles a gallon!&nbsp; They just don\u2019t want you to have it. The oil companies are conspiring with the manufacturers, but it\u2019s there! It\u2019s there! You know what? The automobile companies, every time somebody comes along, they buy it up and they put it in a drawer! They buy the patent; they buy invention. Sometimes, they even kill the inventor!&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every generation.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_123957\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gas-Scam-Comments.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The difference here is the commentators.&nbsp; My cousin once removed was petrified by things he saw.&nbsp; Everybody agreed with it. Everybody\u2019s thinking this guy has actually found a way &#8212; using water and baking soda &#8212; to improve his gas mileage 56%.&nbsp; Even some African-Americans are commenting that if they rigged this up and put it in the trunk and the cops saw it, they would shoot them!&nbsp; And that triggered a whole new thread of anti-cop hatred.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The comments are the worst part, though, and mostly consist of minorities claiming they can\u2019t drive around with two jars in the trunk that look like that because the cops will shoot \u2019em or the cops and Fox News will throw \u2019em in jail for terrorism.&nbsp; Others lament that this guy is gonna get assassinated by the oil companies!&nbsp; A couple of skeptics with what appears to be some engineering knowledge totally debunking this, are met with 20-plus people cussing them out.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aside from all the cool kids having left the platform like they did MySpace and Twitter, I don\u2019t see how this kind of disinformation can be stopped.&#8221;&nbsp; His point is that the lowest common denominator has taken over these social media places, and it\u2019s just filth.&nbsp; It\u2019s a sewer.&nbsp; It\u2019s made up of people that don\u2019t know diddly-squat.&nbsp; I don\u2019t think that\u2019s anything new.&nbsp; I actually think what social media is doing is illustrating what\u2019s always been there.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AkTq6GAJDfg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I think social media is, by its very existence, providing a platform or forum for this kind of behavior and thinking.&nbsp; It\u2019s always been there.&nbsp; It just never had an outlet. They never had a way. They could write letters to the editor, but nobody ever saw it.&nbsp; The editors never published it because it was insane.&nbsp; But now, this stuff is everywhere.&nbsp; And I think&#8230; It is depressing for people who think they live in a country that\u2019s made up of mostly smart, educated, involved people.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Social media is showing that, no, it\u2019s really scary out there.&nbsp; It is really, really scary.&nbsp; And stuff like this &#8212; and, by the way, the poster is part of an Anonymous group.&nbsp; Actually it\u2019s a&#8230; The post is part of a group actually called 4chan, which is also known as Anonymous.&nbsp; These are the people that hacked the Ferguson Police Department website then posted the names and addresses of the Ferguson police and their families on there.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the same group that is responsible for this &#8220;demonstrating&#8221; that the auto manufacturers and the oil companies are defrauding everybody, and all you need are a couple of jars with distilled water and baking soda and you can get 56% better gas mileage.&nbsp; And I see&#8230; It\u2019s amazing. As you get older, you see these things, you\u2019ve seen them all your life, and you watch people who see it for the first time react to it; it just takes you back. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: So last night, minding my own business, bothering nobody, I get an email from my cousin\u2019s son.&nbsp; So what would that be?&nbsp; Cousin once removed, nephew once removed, I don\u2019t know what it is.&nbsp; Stephen III, I\u2019ve told you, he\u2019s a concert pianist and composer.&nbsp; In fact, he did the music for Dinesh D\u2019Souza\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Facebook Video That Has My Cousin Wanting to Quit Social Media - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/06\/23\/the_facebook_video_that_has_my_cousin_wanting_to_quit_social_media\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Facebook Video That Has My Cousin Wanting to Quit Social Media - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: So last night, minding my own business, bothering nobody, I get an email from my cousin\u2019s son.&nbsp; 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