{"id":297243,"date":"2019-01-22T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=297243"},"modified":"2019-01-22T16:57:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T21:57:23","slug":"ocasio-cortez-we-have-12-years-to-save-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/01\/22\/ocasio-cortez-we-have-12-years-to-save-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Old Guard Targets Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: But one of the things that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has said&#8230; She was on Colbert last night, and Colbert actually asked her, &#8220;So&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-297275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-012219-Ocasio-Cortez.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-012219-Ocasio-Cortez.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-012219-Ocasio-Cortez-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Folks, I can\u2019t repeat this. It\u2019s the F-word that he asked her in terms of, &#8220;So do you give a&#8221; F-word? He asked her (paraphrased), &#8220;How many f-[words] do you give a rat\u2019s rear end about all these critics?&#8221; And her answer is&#8230; They bleeped it out. But he actually used the word in the telecast. She said so many stupid things, but chief among them was we only have 12 years&#8230; Now, this is not some wacko scientist &#8212; some phony, faux scientist from some faux university &#8212; who have been saying for the last 30 years that we\u2019ve only got 10 to fix climate.<\/p>\n<p>She said last night that we\u2019ve only got 12 years. Now, she is a totally media-manufactured phenomenon. This is important to remember. The media is why anybody knows who she is. I\u2019m not being disrespectful. I\u2019m telling you, the media has built her up. The media is eventually gonna take this woman out. It\u2019s gonna happen. I don\u2019t know why, but it\u2019ll be something.<\/p>\n<p>If she becomes a threat to a Democrat they like more than they like her, something like that. They are gonna take her out at some point. I don\u2019t know when. The media made her. They can destroy her when they want to, and they will at some point. But she\u2019s out there saying we\u2019ve only got 12 years &#8212; 12 years of climate change, and that\u2019s it; we cease to exist as we know it. It\u2019s the equivalent of world war&#8230; I saw a great response to this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, if this is the equivalent of a world war &#8212; if this climate change is something that\u2019s gonna end life as we know it &#8212; then shouldn\u2019t we invade the ChiComs and India?&#8221; Because that\u2019s where the greatest damage (so-called) to the climate is occurring because of all the pollution, the CO2 emissions. The ChiComs and India are the two leading emitters. So shouldn\u2019t we invade them, if it\u2019s really life and death? But no, of course not, because the United States is the only problem. The United States is what needs to change.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we got the Cortez stuff coming up.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: I just made an observation here about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and that is that she\u2019s a media creation. Now, some people might disagree. &#8220;No, Rush, no. She came out of nowhere. She beat that old dinosaur, Crowley, in her district, and that launched her.&#8221; Do not&#8230; Do not make the mistake of thinking that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is anything but a media creation. She is thoroughly and totally a media creation, which means that at some point &#8212; and it will happen &#8212; the media is going to try to take her out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MRC TV video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/embed\/536409\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Look, you know as well as I do that it\u2019s not just media. This happens to be a tendency throughout all of our society and culture. We build people up, we build \u2019em up, we build \u2019em up &#8212; and then we love to see \u2019em fall. How many people wanted to see the Patriots lose Sunday just to see Tom Brady knocked off the pedestal? Come on. Admit it. You may even be one of them. It\u2019s just the way we are. It\u2019s human psychology. It just happens.<\/p>\n<p>We love seeing the powerful fall. It makes us feel better about ourselves. I don\u2019t want to get too deeply in the weeds on this, but the idea that it\u2019s not a real thing is absurd. It is. But the media intensifies this in people that they have chosen to make. This is why they can\u2019t destroy Trump; they didn\u2019t make him. And, if I may, the reason why all their efforts to separate you as my audience from me have failed is because they had nothing to do with building this.<\/p>\n<p>You and I did this together starting 30 years ago, and you\u2019ve hung in here despite I don\u2019t know how many attempts they have made to separate you from me, to get you not to listen, to take this program out. But with Cortez &#8212; and there\u2019s any number of other examples like this I could give you. With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, nobody would know who she is outside of New York City if it weren\u2019t for the national Drive-By Media.<\/p>\n<p>So the day\u2019s gonna come. The day is gonna come when somebody is gonna tell somebody to take her out, and this is why so many people have been paying attention to the Democrat dinosaur leadership in the House reacting to her and this new band of Millennial freshmen that she\u2019s leading around. Do not misunderstand something. The Democrats are thought to be unified, and they are when it comes to agenda items and objectives and their collective hatred for us.<\/p>\n<p>But they\u2019re like any other organization. There\u2019s a pecking order, there\u2019s a leadership, and it takes a lot of time and work and devotion and trust to get into that small leadership circle. This is one of the things that\u2019s always amazed me about the left and journalists. The journalists have always pushed communist leaders and dictators. They\u2019re somehow enamored of them. They envy their power. They would be the first people sent to jail in a legitimate communist takeover!<\/p>\n<p>They would not be invited to all the cocktail parties and the policy discussions. They\u2019d be packed off to jail along with their computers, typewriters, phones, and whatever else they use to report the news. They would be silenced and shut up. They\u2019re the first to go, and they do not realize this. Well, in the Democrat Party leadership, Nancy Pelosi&#8230; I don\u2019t care what you think of her. You may think she\u2019s out to lunch. She may be turning a little out of it and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>But make no mistake about something: She runs that place, and there\u2019s no upstart little crumb cruncher that\u2019s gonna come along and change that. If these upstarts go too far in challenging her, they are gonna be taught a lesson. As is the case with all young upstarts, they are fearless and think that the old people are just a bunch of old people that don\u2019t get it anymore. Their time has come and passed, and it\u2019s just a matter of time before they wield control of the baton from these aging dinosaurs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-010918-Schumer-Pelosi-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-010918-Schumer-Pelosi-004.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-010918-Schumer-Pelosi-004-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But these aging dinosaurs are like anybody else with power. They never willingly give it up. It just doesn\u2019t happen. So the day is gonna come where she\u2019s gonna make somebody mad or she\u2019s going to be too successful and will legitimately challenge somebody that has more power than she has, and they\u2019re not gonna be interested in working with her and welcoming her in because they\u2019re not gonna trust her. So they\u2019re just going to take her out. This happens.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, Soviet leaders were routinely targeted for assassination. They tried to kill Gorbachev during perestroika and glasnost. He couldn\u2019t believe it, but they did. You know, the left&#8230; We have this vision of them that they\u2019re all friendly, that they\u2019re all committed and that they all love each other and that they\u2019re all unified in support. But they are not. They never have been. Like any other group of people, they\u2019ve got the good guys, the bad guys, the bad actors. They\u2019ve got people nobody trusts.<\/p>\n<p>Like any other group of people, some people are just disliked; other people are liked a lot. It\u2019s no different. Their usefulness is what is the determining factor &#8212; and when there is a decision that their usefulness has come to an end, then they\u2019re gone. It may not be ceremoniously. But still, it\u2019s a vicious, vicious bunch of people. And having political power is one of the rarest and rawest forms of power in this country.<\/p>\n<p>And you\u2019re not gonna just let a bunch of upstarts that really don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing come in and take it from you. Now, the media loves her because they think she\u2019s good copy, good story, this or that and the other thing. Good guest. I don\u2019t know what. Their value judgments on these things are suspect. (interruption) Yeah, that\u2019s right. Whoopi Goldberg has already slammed Ocasio-Cortez one time. The babes at The View are classic.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not gonna sit here and let this babe become more popular and more relevant in their world than they think they are. And, by the way, I don\u2019t have to say this, but when it\u2019s women, they can be vicious. They can be just as competitive and vicious and cutthroat as the next guy. That\u2019s not something widely said, but it is widely understood. So it\u2019s gonna happen. I don\u2019t pretend to know when, and I don\u2019t pretend to know what\u2019s gonna cause it, but I can tell you that there are already signs out there of trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke signals are being sent up from various areas in the Drive-By Media, for example. Tom Brokaw&#8230; (interruption) Mmmm. I don\u2019t know if Whoopi would be first or Tom Brokaw. But Tom Brokaw has just, I think, been sent out by the Democrat old guard to issue a warning. He went on PMSNBC today, which is Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s playground. Brokaw went over there today to blame &#8220;both sides&#8221; for the shutdown. Let me translate that for you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-272513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-043018-Brokaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-043018-Brokaw.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/APP-043018-Brokaw-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>When the old eminence of the Democrat Party under the guise of the anchor of the NBC Nightly News Tom Brokaw, in the midst of the shutdown &#8212; in the midst of a shutdown in which the Democrats and the media are totally trying to blame Donald Trump &#8212; all of a sudden, here comes Tom Brokaw on MSNBC blaming both sides for the shutdown, that is Democrat speak for &#8220;we\u2019ve got a political problem here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brokaw is saying that the Democrats &#8220;find themselves now in a risky situation,&#8221; and he followed it with this: &#8220;You\u2019ve got the young people running through the halls who are the new members of Congress who are conducting pep rallies every day instead of getting together with the more moderate people.&#8221; Let me tell you who he\u2019s talking about. Who do you think he\u2019s talking about? He\u2019s talking about none other than Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You\u2019ve got the young people running through the halls&#8230;&#8221; So this means there has been a message sent. The leadership itself doesn\u2019t want to be seen as having issued this warning. So they call somebody they think is unassailable in areas of trust and reputation. They called old Tom Brokaw and they said, &#8220;Tom, what do you think of this wild bunch of teenagers that\u2019s running around chasing down Mitch McConnell and so forth,&#8221; and gave a little guidance of what to say and he goes out there and says, &#8220;We got some political risk here!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s totally aiming that allegation at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Why, what this means is that the Pelosi-Steny Hoyer leadership in the House (Democrat leadership in the House) is getting concerned over the fact that this woman is out of control and is becoming a bigger personage than any of her achievements warrant &#8212; and, as such, is becoming the face, and thus a target for the opponents to point to as:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, if you really wonder how nutty these Democrats are, just check out Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.&#8221; And then she obliges by going on Colbert last night saying, &#8220;I give zero F-[bombs] about criticism from Democrats.&#8221; So she\u2019s responding to it! She knows the Democrats are not happy with her, but she doesn\u2019t care. She went on with Colbert last night, said she gives zero F-bombs&#8230; She used the word. They bleeped it in the show, but she used the word: Zero F\u2019s about the pushback she\u2019s received for challenging establishment Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Colbert asked her, &#8220;Okay, on a scale from zero to some, how many F-[bombs] do you give?&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez: &#8220;I think it\u2019s, uh, zero.&#8221; Now, right now the media is protecting her from scrutiny. They\u2019ve made her a star. She thinks media and social media attention is due to her credibility and her intelligence and her accomplishments. But it\u2019s not. She is the latest vessel that the left can use to make socialism even more attractive than they\u2019ve been able to make it and to sell it. She\u2019s young. Some people think she\u2019s attractive.<\/p>\n<p>An oddball election gave her a platform. So she\u2019s become an overnight celebrity, like Christine Blasey Ford, David Camera Hogg &#8212; and she thinks her celebrity makes her credible. But it doesn\u2019t. It makes her valuable, until she isn\u2019t &#8212; and she\u2019s not going to be the one to determine when she\u2019s valuable or when she\u2019s not, and it\u2019s only a matter of time before this happens.<\/p>\n<p>So let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. This is yesterday in Harlem. This is the fourth annual MLK Now celebration. Journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates (who is a rabid leftist so-called intellectual) was interviewing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates said, &#8220;Talk about marginal tax rates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: It\u2019s an economic question, but it\u2019s also a moral question.<\/p>\n<p>COATES: Mmmm!<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: Are we comfortable with a society where someone can have a personal helipad while this city is experiencing the highest rates of people experiencing homelessness since the Great Depression?<\/p>\n<p>COATES: Mmmm-hmm! Mmmm-hmm!<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: Should those two things coexist at the same time?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-297314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/OCASIOCORTEZMILLENNIALBILLIONS.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/OCASIOCORTEZMILLENNIALBILLIONS.png 1212w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/OCASIOCORTEZMILLENNIALBILLIONS-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/OCASIOCORTEZMILLENNIALBILLIONS-768x383.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/OCASIOCORTEZMILLENNIALBILLIONS-1024x510.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/OCASIOCORTEZMILLENNIALBILLIONS-1080x538.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>COATES: Mmmm-hmm!<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: Where do we draw the line in excess? Idealizing this outcome of maybe one day you, too, can be a billionaire &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>COATES: Mmmmmmm!<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: &#8212; and own more than millions of families combined &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>COATES: M\u2019yeah.<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: &#8212; is not an aspirational or good thing.<\/p>\n<p>COATES: Good.<\/p>\n<p>CROWD: (applause)<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: A system that allows billionaires to exist &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>COATES: Mmm!<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: &#8212; when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don\u2019t have access to public health &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>COATES: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: &#8212; is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. So a system that allows billionaires to exist. Here\u2019s something I\u2019ll guarantee you she doesn\u2019t know. How many socialist, communist leaders in the world do you think are billionaires? And the answer maybe would surprise some of you. It\u2019s astounding how many of them are, and you know how they did it? They plunder their own nations\u2019 economy. This utopia that she thinks exists in this imaginary place where socialism and communism are perfectly implemented? It doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-297311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SocialismAlways-Fails.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SocialismAlways-Fails.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SocialismAlways-Fails-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>There is no such place, and the way you become a billionaire in these places is to be the dictator and a member of his family, and then you have 90% of that nation\u2019s output. Look at Fidel Castro in Cuba. Nobody ever talks about the wealth of the communist Chinese leaders, but it would make you gasp how much money they\u2019ve got. Nobody talks about the wealth of dictators in African countries, but it would stun you. Hugo Chavez in Venezuela? Why do you think Venezuela\u2019s broke? Why is there no money?<\/p>\n<p>Because the people that ran it basically stole it all! This is what socialism and communism result in. This is why leaders want it. It\u2019s the fastest way to wealth ever. You just steal everything that your nation\u2019s people produce. She doesn\u2019t even understand that! She\u2019s out ripping a nation which has created the highest standard of living in the history of humanity as immoral. She is out ripping to shreds a nation that has created the most advanced health care systems, the most advanced technological systems, the most advanced standard of living in the history of humanity as immoral.<\/p>\n<p>She claims that the fact that there are billionaires is the definition of immorality, proving that she hasn\u2019t the slightest idea how they became millionaires or what they were before they acquired their wealth. To her, it\u2019s just the fact that they\u2019ve got it. It doesn\u2019t matter how. It makes things immoral. This woman is a dunce, folks. She\u2019s got an economics degree from Boston University, and she is a genuine dunce. Yet wherever she goes on the left, the media and leftist audiences &#8212; rank-and-file leftists out there, the American people who are leftist Democrats &#8212; just think she is the greatest thing in the world, and they are celebrating and applauding pure ignorance.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know what\u2019s ironic about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? As she\u2019s sitting here discussing in this sound bite, she\u2019s discussing New York. &#8220;Are we comfortable with a society where someone can have a personal helipad while the city is experiencing the highest rates of people experiencing homelessness since the Great Depression? Should those two things coexist same time? Where do we&#8230;?&#8221; But the communists are running New York City.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-253195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/deblasioshort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/deblasioshort.jpg 313w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/deblasioshort-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/>What does she think de Blasio is? De Blasio is not Mr. Capitalist. He\u2019s not John Galt in there. This guy is a descendant of some of the greatest socialists and communists in the world, and they\u2019re leading the league in homelessness. They\u2019re leading the league in income disparity and inequality. They are leading the league in failing infrastructure. They lead the league in traffic. (It\u2019s a close tie there with Los Angeles.) I mean, she can\u2019t point&#8230; This is the crazy thing!<\/p>\n<p>The places that have implemented her utopian dream ideas are disaster areas &#8212; she lives in one of them &#8212; and she\u2019s out criticizing a place that\u2019s been run by leftists for I don\u2019t know how long. How somebody like this ends up being presented to the people of the nation as a role model and somebody that we should all aspire to be is just mystifying.<\/p>\n<p>It really is. There\u2019s nothing to learn from her. There is nothing she\u2019s done yet that would make you say, &#8220;Oh, I want to be her,&#8221; except she\u2019s famous, and that\u2019s what so many people young people want to be is famous, for everybody to know them and so forth. And clearly being dumb and stupid may be the fast track for that.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let me do just two more Ocasio-Cortez bites then we\u2019ll come back to the phones. I want to keep these going in some semblance of connectivity. So we just heard her. She was asked to explain by Ta-Nehisi Coates: Tell us what marginal tax rates are. She didn\u2019t say a word about marginal tax rates. She started talking about how there\u2019s too many homeless people in New York and too many helipads.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got immorality, too many millionaires, billionaires. In fact, billionaires are immorality. People still getting ringworm in Alabama it means that we\u2019ve got major, major big time problems. Didn\u2019t say a thing about marginal tax rates. I don\u2019t think she knows what a marginal tax rate is. Now, I think a lot of people don\u2019t know what a marginal tax rate is, but she has a degree in economics from Boston University. I don\u2019t mean to embarrass. If somebody asked you to explain the marginal tax rate, could you do it? (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>Doubtful. Not as good as I could. (interruption) Okay. I guarantee you. That\u2019s what he asked her. She didn\u2019t even go there. I\u2019ll tell you in a minute. It\u2019s not the point. The next bite Ta-Nehisi Coates at the MLK Now Celebration in Harlem. &#8220;So how do we escape, for instance, the perils that overtook us during the New Deal which actually, in many cases, opened up a wealth gap?&#8221; Now, stop and think of what\u2019s going on here with this question.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-245035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Liberalism2PIX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Liberalism2PIX.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Liberalism2PIX-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/>The New Deal, up until this crowd came along, was the signature achievement of the Democrat Party. It was FDR. The New Deal is what formalized the idea that Democrat voters are forever dependent on Washington and thus the Democrat Party. The new deal launched the idea that government could provide for, take care of for everybody who can\u2019t take care of themselves and the numbers of people that can\u2019t take care of themselves will grow exponentially as the Democrats start making the illusion they\u2019re taking care of people.<\/p>\n<p>The New Deal was the thing Democrats were the most proud of. It was the thing that sent them on to party dominance. The New Deal. FDR. You can\u2019t find a bigger hero. And here comes this guy, Ta-Nehisi Coates, who\u2019s also a race activist as well as being a so-called left-wing intellectual asking Ocasio-Cortez, &#8220;How we escape the perils that overtook us during the New Deal, which actually in many cases opened up a wealth gap?<\/p>\n<p>Folks, this is driving me crazy. The wealth gap that occurred during the New Deal is exactly the kind of thing wealth gap that happens in socialist countries! The leaders take all the money! The wealth gap, the wealth gap! The Democrats don\u2019t talk about any wealth gap that they created! FDR didn\u2019t create a wealth gap! FDR didn\u2019t do anything about inequality!<\/p>\n<p>FDR came up with all of these things. Social Security was the foundational building block of the New Deal. It made people Democrats forever and for the rest of their lives. Now all of a sudden here comes these upstarts with the idea that there was some kind of wealth gap because of the New Deal. I can\u2019t wait to hear what Ocasio-Cortez says about this.<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: People think about reparations as reparations for slavery. But really, economically speaking, reparations are for the damage done by the New Deal and redlining because that is where we saw a compounding of the existing inequity from the legacy of slavery where we drew red lines around black communities and we said white communities will get home loans and they\u2019ll get access to the basic bedrock of wealth in America, and this will be your heirloom.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: What?<\/p>\n<p>CORTEZ: And we gave white America an heirloom that appreciated over time that people still benefit from today and we did not give that to African-American, Mexican communities, Puerto Rican communities.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, man, this is news. The Democrats abandoned people of color in the New Deal? You young-uns out there may not realize the blasphemy that she just said. The New Deal was the Democrat Party\u2019s signature achievement. Before the Great Society and all the other garbage that LBJ did, the New Deal was the gold standard. Now here comes this bunch claiming that it left out African-Americans, that it left out Puerto Ricans, that it left out Mexicans, and it gave the heirloom to white Americans, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296993\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011719-Ocasio-Cortez-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011719-Ocasio-Cortez-R.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-011719-Ocasio-Cortez-R-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>The inequities, the legacy of slavery drew red lines around the black communities? And they say Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about? Red lines around the black&#8230;? She doesn\u2019t even know what a red line is! We drew red lines around the black community? You can find them on the map. She\u2019s probably saying she\u2019s go looking for the red lines around Harlem. They\u2019re there. You\u2019ll see \u2019em if you get the right map.<\/p>\n<p>White communities will get home loans and they\u2019ll get access to the basic&#8230;? Does she not even know what caused the financial crisis in 2008? It was mortgages for people that couldn\u2019t pay them back, and this access to money for home loans will be your heirloom and we gave white America an heirloom that appreciated over-time&#8230;? So people that have anything didn\u2019t work for it. It was given to them by the New Deal, but the New Deal shafted minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Folks, you get people like Brokaw or Pelosi or any of the other of \u2019em hearing this and this is panic time. &#8220;We can\u2019t allow this&#8230;&#8221; I mean, the Republicans haven\u2019t been able to damage the New Deal, and the New Deal was a disaster for America. Don\u2019t misunderstand. It was an absolute disaster! Because it created the whole idea&#8230; The purpose of the New Deal was to create Democrat voters in perpetuity. The New Deal was to Americans as illegal immigration is to the Democrats today.<\/p>\n<p>It was about creating a permanent underclass that would forever vote Democrat by giving \u2019em just enough to not have to eat medicine for food, just enough, just enough to keep \u2019em out there and voting Democrat for maybe a couple of more crackers next year, all the while blaming Republicans for not giving you five crackers when the Democrats can come up with three. So it was about creating a permanent Democrat majority via creating a permanent underclass, and they\u2019re redoing the New Deal here with amnesty for illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>But she\u2019s coming along and ripping the whole concept of the New Deal as racist. Ha-ha. Republicans can\u2019t even get away with this, and we\u2019ve tried. Okay. There\u2019s one more, and this is the piece de resistance. Talking here to Ta-Nehisi Coates interviewing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and I\u2019ve warned everybody that the millennial population of this country has been poisoned. They\u2019ve been propagandized and brainwashed that the nation is ending, the world is.<\/p>\n<p>By the time they\u2019re 65, they won\u2019t live. The country, the planet will not sustain human life because of climate change. You\u2019d be stunned the number of young people that believe this. They\u2019ve been lied to about it, but they believe it, and it\u2019s become a life and death matter. That\u2019s why they go nuts when they find out that some seeds were grown by the ChiComs on the Moon! I think I mentioned to you last week.<\/p>\n<p>My tech bloggers, these little kids, they went bonkers with the idea, with the news that you could grow food on the Moon. &#8220;Now there\u2019s someplace to go! There\u2019s someplace to go when climate change destroys. God! We\u2019re so happy! There\u2019s somewhere to go now! We don\u2019t have to go to Mars! We can go to Moon! We can plant food on the Moon! We can take our instant pots and we can go to the Moon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By the way, they\u2019ve got Instant Pot for a big price reduction on Amazon. That\u2019s what they care about, the Instant Pot. Do you know what the Instant Pot is, Dawn? Dawn, do you know what the Instant Pot is? (interruption) If you read tech blogs, you would. It\u2019s a pot. It\u2019s like a crock pot. It\u2019s the latest craze among Millennials, and whenever it\u2019s on sale for a dollar&#8230; (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>What kind of cooker? It\u2019s a built in pressure cooker. I don\u2019t know what it is, but whenever there is a dollar or 50 cents off on the Instant Pot on Amazon, it rates breaking news on the tech blogs. &#8216;Cause they\u2019re all starving! You have to pay for food in America. It\u2019s so immoral. So they got these Instant Pots. Well, now they can go to the Moon. They can grow seeds on the Moon! There\u2019s somewhere to go! They\u2019re so happy!<\/p>\n<p>They really believe this, some of them. So Ta-Nehisi Coates talking to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about the end of the world and climate change. And this is what she said about that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wrd35t0arI4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>OCASIO-CORTEZ: Millennials and people and Gen Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up, and we\u2019re, like, &#8220;The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don\u2019t address climate change,&#8221; and your biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it, and, like, this is the war&#8230; This is our World War II. For younger people, we\u2019re looking at this, and we\u2019re, like, &#8220;How are we saying, &#8216;Let\u2019s take it easy,\u2019 when 3,000 Americans died last year? How are we saying, &#8216;Let\u2019s take it easy,\u2019 when the Nth person has just died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system? How are we saying, &#8216;Take it easy,\u2019 when the America that we\u2019re living in today is so dystopian when people sleeping in their cars that they can work a second job without health care and we\u2019re told to settle down?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: All right. Now, folks, we didn\u2019t edit that. We didn\u2019t take anything out; we didn\u2019t add anything. This is what American higher education has become. She is insistent and sincere, dead serious about this. Let\u2019s unpack this. &#8220;Millennials and people in Gen Z and all these folks who come after us are looking up and we\u2019re, like, &#8216;The world\u2019s gonna end in 12 years if we don\u2019t address climate change.'&#8221; And there\u2019s some applause in this audience of crackpots.<\/p>\n<p>(impression)) &#8220;And your biggest issue is how are we gonna pay for it? That\u2019s immoral. It\u2019s destroying us. We\u2019ve only got 12 years. You\u2019re worried about how we gonna pay for it and, like, and, like, and, like, this is the war, this is our World War II! This is our world war,&#8221; proving she has no idea what World War II was or World War I or Vietnam or the Gulf War. She doesn\u2019t know what the War on Poverty was. She doesn\u2019t know anything.<\/p>\n<p>It is stunning and striking! As an acquaintance asked, &#8220;Well, if this is your World War II, don\u2019t you think it\u2019s about time to invade China and India?&#8221; &#8220;Why? Why would we do that?&#8221; &#8220;Because they\u2019re the ones destroying the planet. They\u2019re emitting more pollution and CO2s than we ever did and ever hope to. It\u2019s not even a contest!&#8221; Yet to her, the United States is guilty. The United States is evil. The United States needs to be overturned and transformed.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years, folks. Twelve years. But they can grow seeds on the Moon now, Instant Pots. There\u2019s a future finally, Instant Pots on the Moon! They\u2019re so happy. (summarized) &#8220;For younger people, we\u2019re looking at this and we\u2019re, like, we\u2019re like, we\u2019re like, y\u2019know, how are you we saying &#8216;take it easy\u2019 when 3,000 Americans died last year.&#8221; Three thousand died from what, climate change? More than 3,000 died? I mean, the wheel claimed 48,000. Opioids claimed about the same.<\/p>\n<p>Three thousand people died from what? (summarized) &#8220;How are we saying, &#8216;Let\u2019s take it easy,\u2019 when the Nth person just died from our cruel, injustice criminal justice system, &#8216;Take it easy\u2019 when the America we live in today is so dystopian, people sleeping in their cars so we can work a second job?&#8221; Is that right? People living in their cars so they can take a second job. Isn\u2019t it living in their cars \u2019cause they can\u2019t find a job? 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