{"id":341415,"date":"2020-03-30T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=341415"},"modified":"2020-03-31T16:14:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T20:14:47","slug":"doomsayers-always-win-even-when-the-optimists-are-right-hypothetically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/03\/30\/doomsayers-always-win-even-when-the-optimists-are-right-hypothetically\/","title":{"rendered":"Even When Optimists Are Right (HYPOTHETICALLY) \u2014 The Doomsayers Always Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I just have one more thing to say about models<\/a>. It\u2019s undeniably true, and it\u2019s one of the things that frustrates me about them. The doomsayers always win. Do you realize this? The doomsayers always win in a psychological sense. “What do you mean, Rush?” Well, let me explain it to you. I\u2019m glad you asked.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s bad — if it is as bad as they say — they will say, “I warned you. I told you it was going to be 100,000 dead, 200,000 dead. I told you!” If it isn\u2019t as bad as they say, if it doesn\u2019t end up being as bad as they predict, they then say, “It\u2019s only because we warned you to do what was necessary to avoid the threat.”<\/p>\n

They are never wrong.<\/p>\n

The doomsayers are never wrong; they always win. They\u2019ve got an answer for everything. The realists, like me… I\u2019m the mayor of Realville. I am Mr. Literal. This program is Realville. I am the mayor, governor, president, whatever. I\u2019m an optimist. I can\u2019t help it. I have the optimist gene. We never win up against the doomsayers.<\/p>\n

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If the realists and the optimists are wrong, then what are we?<\/p>\n

We are uncaring murderers or worse.<\/p>\n

We are people with no compassion if we are wrong when we say, “It ain\u2019t gonna be that bad, folks. Get a grip!” If the realists and optimists like me are right, we still endangered lives with the recklessness of our prediction, and were saved only by those who knew their data was false and scared them into acting…<\/p>\n

If I were to come along and say… This is a HYPOTHETICAL capital H, capital Y, capital everything, HYPOTHETICAL. If I were to say today, “This shutdown is not necessary…” I am not saying it, but if I were… I\u2019m giving you a HYPOTHETICAL example. If I were to tell you that I don\u2019t think anything we\u2019re doing here is as drastically necessary…?<\/p>\n

If that turned out to be right, the doomsayers would still say that I was reckless and that I endangered lives and that lives were saved only by the doomsayers who warned everybody not to listen to the optimists, and that\u2019s why modelers… I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s health models, whether it\u2019s climate models, economic models. They always play the doom card.<\/p>\n

They always play the worst-case-scenario card, and they never lose. The people who lose are those who\u2019ve had their livelihoods ruined because of the doomsayers. But, boy, you contradict the doomsayers and say, “I don\u2019t think it\u2019s this bad. I don\u2019t think a hundred thousand, 200,000 people are gonna die.”<\/p>\n

(angrily) “Who are you to dispute Dr. Fauci? Who are you! What do you mean?” “Well, I\u2019m an eternal optimist, and I just don\u2019t believe…” “Well, that\u2019s recklessly…” So, you can\u2019t say it. The optimist and the realist have to shut up, ceding the argument to the doomsayers, and that\u2019s where we are here, and that\u2019s what I don\u2019t like about this.<\/p>\n

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The doomsayers are ruling the roost, and who\u2019s to say that they\u2019re right? They don\u2019t know! All they\u2019ve got are their computer models and their media-biased headlines to scare the hell out of everybody. They could be right, but what if they\u2019re wrong? Well, that\u2019s the thing. They never are.<\/p>\n

They will get credit for having warned everybody in advance. The fact that the economy\u2019s been shellacked and destroyed? “Ah, an insignificant byproduct to the saving of lives.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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