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<\/p>\nRUSH: Mark in Eden, Minnesota. I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, thanks, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019re welcome, sir.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I want to say dittos to you and Kathryn and prayers from Minnesota.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. We appreciate it.<\/p>\n
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CALLER: So the thing that kind of concerns me is that… How do I put it? I remember Al Franken in my answer and how he won by a thousand votes that we didn\u2019t have, and that\u2019s one of the scares that I have coming up to the presidential election. I know that Minnesota… I think that Jason Lewis did a book on it, but it was where Minnesota was kind of taken over by a thousand votes in Duluth that showed up in somebody\u2019s trunk.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yep. I remember that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s a famous case of Democrat vote fraud.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: They were gonna keep looking for ballots until they found enough to put that Looney Tune over the top, and they did.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep, and I think that\u2019s a pretty strong thing going on in Minnesota and it kind of scares me. The other thing is — you know, you kind of reiterated it earlier — I went to the University of North Dakota, and I took a class there, Perspectives on Aerospace. This is not what I called about, but I met Buzz Aldrin and he was one of the professors of the class and he had to leave after the… I forgot the name. I think it was Discovery that (crosstalk).<\/p>\n
RUSH: Say, Frank, can I ask you a question?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n
RUSH: It says here that you\u2019re a theater owner, unessential, and you wanted to talk about that. Why are you bringing this other stuff up?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, because I was listening to the show. But I\u2019m a small-town theater owner and I\u2019ve been closed down by the state, and so I kind of want to speak up for theater owners. My theater… I live in a town of 1,600. So it\u2019s not really a big deal, but it\u2019s a good thing for me, and our popcorn is pretty good. But I can\u2019t go to work because of the shutdown.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Wait. Frank, where do you get your popcorn for your theater?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Huh?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Where do you get the popcorn? What brand is it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: It\u2019s Vogel white popcorn. I get from a place called Dakota Paper.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And is it —<\/p>\n
CALLER: But we pop it with coconut oil.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There you go! There. That\u2019s why your theater smells the way it should.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, it does. You\u2019re astute on that. Coconut oil is (crosstalk).<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019re upset because somebody has told you that you are unessential.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes! Absolutely! I want to know… I would like to have the government take all of their people and say who\u2019s unessential there, and they could give me the money that they are all getting.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: You know, Frank, all government workers are essential. There\u2019s not a one of them that did not get paid. There\u2019s not a one of them that isn\u2019t getting paid. This whole argument, this essential and nonessential, is a replay of 2016, the deplorables versus the elites. Who in the hell wants to be told they\u2019re unessential, and then who gets to decide this?<\/p>\n
Well, who is deciding it? Well, it\u2019s elements of the administrative state in Washington who are determining “You\u2019re unessential. What you do is unessential. You, you\u2019re needed.” Now, a lot of it is political, obviously, but I think choosing those terms and using those terms is quite indicative of the mind-set, the way we are seen by our elite betters in government.<\/p>\n
Where are they? They\u2019re sitting there either in their state capitol or in Washington, and they\u2019ve got lists — essential and unessential — and so you own a theater in a town of 1,600. “You\u2019re unessential. Your theater can stay closed. To hell with you! To hell with your employees.” Who gets to decide this? This is the kind of thing — and I hope the Democrats continue.<\/p>\n
The Democrats love making these distinctions between people. Who is better, who is more qualified, who\u2019s smarter, who\u2019s more educated, who\u2019s more necessary… All it means is, “Who\u2019s more like us?” and what you have learned here, Frank, is that your elite betters in Washington don\u2019t give a rat\u2019s rear end about movie theaters because many of them don\u2019t have to go to a movie theater to see the movie.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve got other ways and other connections for doing it. But I think this is a potential gold mine for the Trump campaign to play up. You know, lay this one off on the left. Lay it off on the Democrats. They\u2019re the ones coming up with these distinctions. Essential\/nonessential. Essential\/unessential.<\/p>\n
By the way, another question related to all of this, and it would relate to you and your theater out there, Frank. Nothing in any of this stands up to any real test of common sense. Let me give you an example. If social distancing of six feet… Meaning you can\u2019t get any closer to anybody than six feet. It better not be 5\u201911” or you\u2019re guilty! You violated the command!<\/p>\n
Six feet of social distancing. Then why does anybody have to wear a mask? If six feet of separation is all that\u2019s needed to protect anybody, what the hell does anybody need a mask for — and if the masks work, then why do we have to separate by six feet? So what is this six-feet business, and who\u2019s in charge of this, and what\u2019s the practical result of it?<\/p>\n
The practical result is businesses are not being allowed to fully recover and populate their establishments — either restaurants, stores, or what have you. You know, on the one hand we\u2019re being told, “The mask is all you need. Oh, you gotta wear the mask! You gotta stay safe. You gotta be safe. You gotta be compassionate!” Well, if we\u2019re all wearing masks — or if enough people are — what the hell does it matter if you\u2019re two feet apart or six feet apart if the mask is the magic?<\/p>\n
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And if it\u2019s the six feet, then why do you have to wear a mask — if you\u2019re further than six feet or six feet away from somebody? I don\u2019t know. You may be asking the same kind of questions, but these things forever befuddle me because I have a natural distrust. You know, I was talking yesterday about the things about this that have scared me, and one of them is how many sheep we have in the citizenry.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s always been something that\u2019s bothered me, and I don\u2019t know what to do about it (probably nothing), that so many people just believe whatever a government agency says about anything. It\u2019s instinctive to believe it, never even question it, whatever the authorities say. And yet we know that these people are fallible, and many of them… Like the CDC.<\/p>\n
The CDC has totally failed in its mission here. The CDC has been given federal grant money, budget money, donations out the wazoo since going back to 1987. They have gotten more than has been requested. They get donations. They\u2019ve had enough money, and yet look at what they missed. It\u2019s the same thing as, look, 9\/11 was missed.<\/p>\n
Have you ever stopped to think, 9\/11 happens, and within 24 hours we knew everything about the hijackers, including where they holed up for the month prior? We knew where they were. We knew who they were. After that happened, we were able to piece together that day, in less than 24 hours. So somebody knew it all. Well, see, that\u2019s the problem.<\/p>\n
One person didn\u2019t know it all, because we had some convoluted thing that we couldn\u2019t share data from agency to agency. The CIA wasn\u2019t allowed to know what the FBI knew \u2019cause the CIA can\u2019t do domestic law enforcement. That was Jamie Gorelick and the Clinton administration, the wall that was put up to somehow, so-called “protect people.” I was amazed at this.<\/p>\n
In less than 24 hours, we knew who did it, who those guys were, how they did it, where they went to flight school, who their foreign sponsors were. We knew everything! We were able to make a movie about it with every detail. I mean, it boggles my mind. Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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