{"id":223446,"date":"2017-02-28T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=223446"},"modified":"2017-03-01T16:32:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T21:32:08","slug":"whacked-out-new-yorker-writer-thinks-were-living-in-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/02\/28\/whacked-out-new-yorker-writer-thinks-were-living-in-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Whacked-Out New Yorker Writer Thinks We\u2019re Living in the Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I have a piece today that I found in the New Yorker<\/a>. When I started reading this I said, “This is very clever. This guy\u2019s very clever.” I kept reading it and kept reading it, and I said, “Wait a minute. Does this guy actually maybe believe this?” Because he\u2019s gone and got a bunch of sources and experts in clinical psychology and computer science and he\u2019s making the case. And you know what it is? That things are so weird, there\u2019s an actual line in this piece. I can\u2019t utter the word, but it\u2019s what Trump said in the NBC Access Hollywood video when he told Billy Bush what he actually grabbed. He said: You just don\u2019t say that and get elected president of the United States. It just doesn\u2019t happen.<\/p>\n

\"\"And he cites a couple other things, Hillary was supposed to win, everybody knew it, Patriots were supposed to lose in the second half, everybody knew it, and then the Oscar flap, this doesn\u2019t happen. These kinds of things just don\u2019t happen. So this guy\u2019s theory is that we are in The Matrix. We are simply in a computer simulation being run by aliens (laughing) and that they\u2019re getting bored and that they are programming us to do all kinds of inexplicable, weird things just to watch us react to the things that they make happen.<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m reading this thing, and his name is Adam Gopnik. I guarantee you that if I reported this to you as though he was dead serious the next thing he would do if he heard about it would be to react, “I was just joking, what do these people, don\u2019t they see a joke?” And if I laugh about it and treat it as a joke, he might respond: “No, no, no, I meant it.” But we\u2019ll link to this at RushLimbaugh.com, and you read it and see what you think. I\u2019m telling you, folks, these people are so whacked out still. They still can\u2019t believe what happened to \u2019em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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