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CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Royce in Milan, Illinois, is that right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, it\u2019s in Milan.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Milan.<\/p>\n
CALLER: How you doing, Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019ve listened to you since I was a 16-year-old boy, a teenager during the \u201991 Gulf War.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Why, you only sound like you\u2019re 25 now, so that\u2019s —<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing).<\/p>\n
RUSH: (Laughing).<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, you\u2019ve been an inspiration to me. I\u2019m a pastor, and I have been for over 20 years now. But I want you to know my family and I are praying for you. I\u2019m an avid fan and a student of yours and have been for almost 30 years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, thank you, sir. Thank you very, very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I wanted to talk a little about this coronavirus situation. I understand that there\u2019s some reality to it. I think that\u2019s a given. But I also believe in my heart that it is one of the biggest, most elaborate lies ever told to the world. It is mind-boggling to me how it has crippled our world and crippled our nation and the economy, but I live in a state, Illinois, where our governor is continually moving the goalposts and he\u2019s still saying that churches cannot have any more than 10 in their building.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, J. B. Pritzker.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Yes. And I live — well, I can see our local grocery store from my driveway right now, and I could look down there and see a hundred cars in the parking lot. And the marijuana shop is about a mile away, and there are lines of people out there, but I\u2019m told that what I\u2019m doing is nonessential and that I\u2019m in violation of the governor\u2019s order. And so I\u2019ve been very upfront with our local police. I\u2019ve told them whatever we were doing and when we were doing it, and I went down last week or two weeks ago, and I said, “We\u2019re gonna start May the 3rd, and these are the safety precautions we\u2019re putting in place.” And he said, “Technically you\u2019re gonna in violation of the order,” and we started anyway. And I just refuse to live under that oppressiveness that says what they\u2019re doing at the marijuana shop is essential but what I\u2019m doing is not. What they\u2019re doing at Lowe\u2019s and Menard\u2019s and our local —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait a minute. Let me give you an easy way to understand this. It\u2019s much easier for J. B. Pritzker to rule a bunch of people stoned out of their minds than it is to deal with a bunch of people focused on reality like your flock would be.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I agree with that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Make no mistake. I\u2019m not trying to be funny. I know I\u2019m a naturally funny guy. I\u2019m not trying to be funny. You threaten them. Religion threatens these people on the left. It\u2019s why they do their best to stamp it out when they absolutely, authoritatively occupy and run a country.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, Steven Mnuchin said yesterday that permanent economic damage will occur if this country does not reopen. Yeah, that\u2019s about right. That\u2019s exactly right.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Our last caller — a man of the cloth, a pastor, a minister, a preacher — was very upset that the governor of Illinois is perfectly fine with people showing up in whatever numbers they want to buy marijuana at the marijuana store, and yet limiting the number of people that can show up at his church. You know how bad it is?<\/p>\n
The governor of Illinois, J. B. Pritzker, says he will not permit a church to have more than 50 people in it until there\u2019s a vaccine. There may never be a vaccine! You can\u2019t have more than 50 people in a church. Of course, everybody knows you people that go to church, oh, you are human filth, right? You\u2019re unsanitary, you\u2019re dirty, you\u2019re stinky, you\u2019re smelly.<\/p>\n
You show up infected with who knows whatever else before you even get to coronavirus. Plus, you\u2019re a bunch of dumb, hayseed hicks to approved left-wingers like J. B. Pritzker. Now, our last caller might like to know this, because Bill Barr… I don\u2019t think we say enough good about Bill Barr, the attorney general. They\u2019re trying…<\/p>\n
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Do you know that NBC and Chuck Todd have not issued an online admission or apology for what they did to Bill Barr? They just sent out a little tweet saying that they\u2019d made a mistake. There has been no official acknowledgment of what they did, knowingly taking a comment of his out of a quote to make it look like he\u2019s a political hack, and then asking F. Chuck Todd\u2019s guests to respond to Bill Barr that way.<\/p>\n
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He may be in Joe Biden Land, for all we know.<\/p>\n