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RUSH: This is Jody in Raleigh, North Carolina.  I\u2019m glad you waited.  It\u2019s great to have you with us.  Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER:  Hey, Rush.  First-time caller.  I\u2019ve been a listener since the day after 9\/11, so I\u2019m happy to be on today.  I\u2019m at a university in North Carolina and I just wanted to share that since Wednesday I have received numerous emails from the department head and the university bulletin telling faculty how to console our distraught students, where to send them for counseling to deal with their grief.  Rush, it is like somebody died.  I just wonder, has this ever happened before in any other election?<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Well, it has in a modified form.  In 2004, when John Kerry lost, here in south Florida — I think this was the first time that I was actually aware of it — a bunch of brand-new therapy centers in existing hospitals and clinics sprung up to help Democrat voters who were distraught over John Kerry\u2019s loss.  And they got so many customers that a new business was created, postelection stress disorder. <\/p>\n

CALLER:  Unbelievable.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  It\u2019s what they called it and they had so many customers that it now exists.  What\u2019s happening with you and your little snowflakes on college campus — let me ask you this.  How do you deal — you\u2019re an adjunct professor — how do you deal with it when you get letters, emails from the administration telling you how to deal, what do you really do?<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER:  Rush, that\u2019s the problem.  I would love to send back one of these reply-alls, and say, “Hey, I\u2019m not on the same page as you all,” because that\u2019s what we\u2019ve gotten, you know, replies that said, “Oh, thank you for sending us this email on this day of mourning, this sad day.” But, Rush, I can\u2019t.  I can\u2019t reply, because I just feel like my contract will end if I hit reply all.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  I know you can\u2019t reply, but how are you dealing with the little snowflakes in your class?<\/p>\n

CALLER:  That\u2019s right, Rush.  Well, you know, I say nothing.  Because, again, you know, I value my job there at the university, and honestly, I just feel like I can\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH:  Look, this is how the left has always ended up being able to control things.  Either you are afraid for your job or a parent of a student who disagrees is afraid for the kid\u2019s grade or being expelled and so this is the kind of bullying that they get away with.  I saw something, you\u2019ll be interested in this.  William Shatner of Star Trek fame, who is one of the funniest human beings you\u2019ve ever met<\/a>, he heard about these snowflakes wilting on campus and melting down and he tweeted something along the lines of: “Hey, it\u2019s time to grow up.  You don\u2019t get everything you want all the time and it\u2019s time to stop crying and be adults about this.” <\/p>\n

And he was greeted with tweet after tweet after tweet from people who said, “Mr. Shatner, your days of relevance have passed.  Your trip down memory lane to nostalgia is worthless.  There is real suffering and real pain, and you don\u2019t understand it, and you\u2019re not being helpful.”  And I disagree profoundly.  I think somebody needs to get hold of these kids and tell \u2019em, grow up.  You have no business letting an election affect the rest of your life like this. <\/p>\n