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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Matthew in Perrysburg, Ohio, as we stay with the phones. Great to have you, Matthew. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Good morning, Rush. Mega dittos and prayers from Ohio.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I was looking at this $2.8 trillion spending that we did, which is our debt, and if you take that and you spread that over every person in the United States 35 and younger, that is a $37,000 debt for every person. So we stopped our economy, we\u2019re hanging a huge debt over our younger generation in order to save a few of our old and at-risk population. We substituted the real economy for stimulus debt.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know what this is? The way you lay that out, this is like death panels in reverse.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You remember… Let\u2019s go back and look at this. In the first days of the Obama administration\u2019s Obamacare proposal, remember how everybody reacted when there were death panels? What were they? It was Sarah Palin who gave them their name.<\/p>\n
What the death panels were, is Obama administration officials who were going to decide who among the sick got treated and who didn\u2019t, who would have money spent on their recovery and treatment and who wouldn\u2019t. And everybody concluded, “Well, it\u2019s obvious the elderly are going to be those that will probably be treated the least because the decision will be, ‘Why invest in them?<\/p>\n
“‘They\u2019re at the end of their lives statistically, and the young have their lives ahead of them and their productivity ahead of them, so let\u2019s invest in them.'” Now your situation as you laid it out is the exact opposite. We have piled debt upon debt upon debt on the youths to save the elderly, according to the stats of who is most likely to get this disease. It\u2019s the death panels in reverse.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, your larger question is… (Pfft!) I assume your larger question is, “Is it worth it?” You\u2019re trying to assign a worth or a value to this. Is it worth $37,000 in additional spending? Because, by the way, every American had a pre-existing amount of debt based on the national debt. So that\u2019s $37,000 that you\u2019ve computed, that\u2019s on top of what\u2019s there already.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So you\u2019re probably thinking that that amount of debt is essentially a jail cell around these people, that they owe that kind of money to the federal government. The federal government can, in a variety of ways, find ways to get paid back, if they want to.<\/p>\n
It wouldn\u2019t be sending people a bill, but it would be in the way government policy is formulated, the way tax cuts are projected, denied, or applied. So you\u2019re thinking that that $37,000 additional debt is going to essentially be more and more government control over those people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s deniable. You know, there are a lot of people that think this is a conspiracy. Have you heard that? (interruption) Have you heard that? (interruption) You have? I tell you, I\u2019ve heard… Let\u2019s go through the things. I have heard, “The virus was manufactured by the ChiComs to take us out, that the ChiComs did not want to engage in a military battle \u2019cause it\u2019s not worth it.<\/p>\n
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“The odds of winning are not good. After a war with America is over, both countries… Nah. Not the way to do it. If you really want to take out the United States, do it without having to fire a shot. So here we come. They\u2019ve engineered a virus, and they\u2019ve made sure that just enough people in China got it so they could thin out their population.<\/p>\n
“But really wreak havoc,” and then there are variations of that conspiracy theory that are alive and well. There\u2019s a bunch of conspiracies involving Dr. Fauci. You know what my favorite conspiracy theory is? (laughing) I don\u2019t even know if I should tell you (laughing), because if people hear this out of context, they\u2019re gonna report that I actually said I believe this.<\/p>\n
My favorite conspiracy theory… You know what? I\u2019m gonna think about whether I should tell you. I gotta take a break here. (interruption) Hmm? (interruption) Oh, yeah, that Dr. Mikovits or whatever that says Fauci… (interruption) No, that\u2019s not what I\u2019m thinking of. That\u2019s not it. That\u2019s not it. That\u2019s out there. I don\u2019t need to attach my name to that. I don\u2019t need…<\/p>\n
That\u2019s got distribution all by itself. (interruption) Well, you believe it? (interruption) You don\u2019t believe that? (interruption) Who is nuts? (interruption) Oh, people that watch…? Well, but that doctor doesn\u2019t seem credible to you in that video? Dr. Mikovits or whatever her name is? (interruption)<\/p>\n
(laughing) Well, you\u2019re right. I got people sending me that. “You gotta talk about this, Rush! You gotta talk about that! Look at that!” No, I don\u2019t have to talk about that. But there is a conspiracy out there that just… (laughing) Oh, it\u2019s James Bond-type stuff. I\u2019ll decide whether or not to tell you in a minute.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, Mr. Snerdley, that video that you\u2019re talking about, I got my share, you know, last week. “You gonna watch this,” emails, “You gotta watch this, you gotta watch this.” So I wrote back some of the people that sent it, “Okay, seeing that this video is 26 minutes. Could you tell me what this video says in a minute? ‘Cause I really don\u2019t want to take 26 minutes. Why can\u2019t you just tell me what this damn thing says?”<\/p>\n
So they did.<\/p>\n
In three sentences they were able to explain why I had to watch a 26-minute video. I said, “Okay. So this babe has been screwed by Fauci in a bunch of different ways, and this whole thing is a setup for a whole bunch of different –” Fine. Then I was able to determine would I want to watch 26 minutes for details, which I probably watched five. I just can\u2019t sit there and watch these things. It\u2019s all about time for me. If you can tell me in five minutes what a 26 minute video says, I will choose the five minutes every time.<\/p>\n
But my favorite conspiracy theory — and I\u2019m not gonna tell you who it accuses. That\u2019s the way to do this. My favorite conspiracy theory is that this virus is the work of a bunch of lunatic billionaires who really believe that we are destroying the planet and they have discovered that we can\u2019t get to Mars in time and we can\u2019t colonize the moon so they have come up with a way to get rid of billions of people to make the world have a longer survivability potential.<\/p>\n
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That it is a population control thing because wealthy billionaires who really thought they could colonize Mars or the moon and leave this planet to save themselves now realize it isn\u2019t gonna happen in their lifetime, so time for Plan B, let\u2019s get rid of a couple billion people so the earth will survive. (interruption) Well, no, the first name you mentioned is the one I saw. I\u2019m not gonna mention the name. The other name you mentioned is a satellite entry in the theory.<\/p>\n
Now, the reason why it suckered me in for five seconds, is because it has just enough believability. These people are nuts. They seriously were hoping to be able to escape earth to get to Mars, somewhere, to colonize \u2019cause they really, really think we\u2019re destroying the planet. That kind of insanity is out there and it\u2019s in charge of the climate change or global warming, whatever you want to call it, movement.<\/p>\n
(interruption) What? The what? (interruption) Oh, yeah, well, you know, that conspiracy theory isn\u2019t true because its primary proponent is Woody Harrelson. This is the theory that the new 5G cell phone transmission speeds are poisoning and causing all these viruses and abnormalities and mutations. And so the people that believe this are running around and destroying 5G cell towers all over Europe.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s Manny, we go back to phones. Manny is in Odessa, Florida. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s great to talk to you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I was telling Mr. Snerdley that my comment has to do with these leftists, the media, the Democrat Party, they\u2019ll stop at nothing. They would burn down the entire United States if they thought it would get Donald Trump out of office. And anything that comes along in the news they\u2019re gonna utilize, as they say, they never let a crisis go to waste. So this is just one of many more to come. We\u2019re under attack. And we have to realize that. This chemical attack, I think, was no accident. This is the same as if we were attacked —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. What chemical attack?<\/p>\n
CALLER: This attack, the virus attack.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh. The virus attack.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The virus is an attack, I believe. This was no accident. You know, why a few months before an election. I think it\u2019s just another assault on the Trump administration. There\u2019s just a lot of horses trying to get him out of office.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Well, yeah. It\u2019s more than that. But I agree with you. I tried to make the point yesterday that it\u2019s about two things. And they seem related, and in one vein they are. I think these people that we\u2019re talking about — and, by the way, I\u2019m not agreeing with the premise that the virus was created by Pelosi and Schumer or Adam Schiff or Robert Mueller to get rid of Trump. Don\u2019t infer that, folks. I think, however, that the people who are utilizing it in that way are beyond help.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re beyond help sick. And I really believe that they epitomize what happens when the poison of hatred totally consumes you. And these people have lost all rational aspects of their existence, their personalities. And they have two objectives. And you\u2019re right. The first objective is getting rid of Trump. But I think there\u2019s a second objective that\u2019s tougher to explain because they\u2019re tied together. I think that the fact they lost the 2016 election to anybody has sent them into a nosedive. And you add that they lost it to Trump on top of it, and it has rendered them clinically insane.<\/p>\n
I think they were so convinced that Hillary was gonna win and what that meant for their ongoing transformation of America. Trump has done more damage to their plans. There are people that devoted their lives to the next phase of what was gonna happen if Hillary Clinton had won, and Trump has blown it to smithereens. They can\u2019t believe that Hillary Clinton lost. They can\u2019t come to grips with it. The fact that it was Trump is just insult to injury being added.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So the reason I asked about conspiracy theories in the last half hour is I have a story here for you. It\u2019s from Fox News. Let me just share the headline: “LA City Council Votes to Name Hotels that Refuse to House Homeless, May ‘Commandeer\u2019 Them,”<\/a> these hotels. Do you know what\u2019s happened out in LA? Then the LA city council told the people that own the hotels, “You can\u2019t kick \u2019em out.” Well, now, the people who own the hotels do not want their property to be summarily ruined and damaged. So they want the homeless to have to vacate, and the LA city council voted yesterday to identify these hotels — to shame them — if they refuse to allow the homeless to take over their hotel, and said that these hotels could be “commandeered.”<\/p>\n This is the kind of stuff that makes people believe in conspiracy theories, \u2019cause who would ever believe something like this would happen? But it\u2019s happening right in front of your face. Democrat officeholders in Los Angeles and San Francisco are essentially implementing left-wing ideological beliefs, taking advantage of the coronavirus shutdown and opportunity in order to illustrate what they really think, who their hatred is for, who their constituents are.<\/p>\n Same thing in San Francisco. The San Francisco homeless problem got so bad, that they had to publish maps so tourists would know where to avoid the piles of human feces because the homeless were pooping on the streets, and San Francisco couldn\u2019t keep up with the cleanup. So maps were published — and they became jokes.<\/p>\n Los Angeles and San Francisco became the brunt of jokes, because of their homeless problem and their incompetence in dealing with it. And it stems from two things: Really rotten policies with Democrats administering them. So now what they\u2019re doing in LA is they\u2019re taking this opportunity to move the homeless by force into these hotels.<\/p>\n And if the hotels, which are private businesses… They\u2019re privately owned. If they don\u2019t acquiesce, if they don\u2019t stand aside and let the homeless “commandeer” the hotel and take it over, these elected Democrats are going to out them publicly. They think they can shame them.<\/p>\n Virtue signaling. They\u2019re gonna name the hotels that refuse to be taken over by the homeless. Now, this is supposed to do what? This is supposed to make the citizens of Los Angeles hate the hotel owners? So, what?<\/p>\n The people that own hotels in Los Angeles are supposed to allow their properties to be taken over by a bunch of people that are gonna end up destroying the property and not pay for being there? And that\u2019s the purpose of a hotel — and if the hotel doesn\u2019t permit that to happen, then the LA city council can publicly shame them? To what benefit?<\/p>\n To what end? How does this help the people that own the hotels? How does it shame them? Are the people of Los Angeles so screwed up that they would do what the LA city council wants and hate the people that own the hotels for refusing to allow a bunch of nonpaying vagrants to come in and essentially wreck the places?<\/p>\n Because you know that\u2019s what\u2019s gonna happen.<\/p>\n To what end?<\/p>\n Well, if you don\u2019t understand socialism and how it hates capitalism, and if you don\u2019t understand how capitalists and free market entrepreneurs are hated and despised, then you will not understand the actions of the LA city council here. Councilman Mitch O\u2019Farrell said, “It would seem to me to be a complete justification that we expect something back especially during an emergency.”<\/p>\n So the hotels apparently have some duty during an emergency to open their doors to let people come in and literally tear them apart, will not be paying for their rent. That means the hotels have to stay open and operated. The water has to keep running. The HVAC has to keep running. The people that own and operate the hotels have to keep them operating, but nobody in there is gonna be paying for any of it. And the LA city councilman here says: I think publicly shaming them would be a complete justification. We expect them to give back. We expect them to give back during an emergency.<\/p>\n The Ritz-Carlton in downtown Los Angeles, which also has luxury condo residents — you can buy condos as part of the Ritz-Carlton downtown — was among those resisting. The Ritz-Carlton. They\u2019re gonna take it over, the homeless are gonna take it over, and the LA city council wants to think they can shame the Ritz-Carlton. Because over the years, you see, the hotel has received millions of dollars in tax breaks from the city.<\/p>\n So you see what happens. You people that do business with Democrats, you see what happens when you take their goodies, when you take their tax break, you see what they think you owe them? You owe them your property. You owe them the right to run it. You owe them the right to kick you out of it. And then you owe them the right to publicly shame, as in bad PR plastering your name all over however they\u2019re gonna do it, billboards, however they\u2019re gonna be shame them, they\u2019re gonna do it. You try to explain this.<\/p>\n
\nLet me tell you what\u2019s happened, if you haven\u2019t heard this. The hotels, of course, are shut down. You can\u2019t have a hotel up and running. It\u2019s very hard to find one that\u2019s up and running. So what happened was the homeless moved into them. It was a strategery. The homeless and their advocates took over these hotels in Los Angeles and refused to move out.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-042220-Gavin-Newsome.jpg\")
You could say that Los Angeles and San Francisco, in the real world, have been embarrassed for this homeless problem. I mean, look, the homeless problem skid row in Los Angeles has been a problem that has been building and mounting since — well, at least since — the middle of last year, and it intensified as the Democrat presidential primaries got underway.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/APP-061219-California-Homeless-FLAG-B.jpg\")
Take a look at any homeless encampment. Take a look at the New York subways. For crying out. Do you know that some of those subway cars were actually used as toilets? This is mind-boggling stuff that the LA city council would partner up with the homeless and their activists to essentially ruin the hotel industry in Los Angeles?<\/p>\n
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And another story out of California here.