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<\/p>\nRUSH: I know you guys have got Biden on in there. Does it not look like they\u2019ve got him in a cage? I gotta grab a screenshot of this. I\u2019ll put it up there. I can\u2019t do it right now. But it literally looks like they\u2019ve got him in a cage, like he\u2019s down at the border and he just got caught trying to sneak in the country illegally and he\u2019s about to be deported. The only difference is you don\u2019t see illegal immigrants wearing coat and tie. But I swear, it looks like he\u2019s in a cage! I\u2019ll show you what I\u2019m talking about here in mere moments.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: All right. So I had just a brief moment to listen to a little bit of Biden here as he gives his speech in Pittsburgh in a cage. Folks, I… (sigh) He\u2019s flat-out lying. It\u2019s mind-boggling. It\u2019s so audacious that it\u2019s difficult to describe. He\u2019s just literally flat-out lying, blaming Trump for things the Democrats have supported, things the Democrats have done — blaming Trump for things that he has not done, that have not happened.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: “So, Rush,” says the email, “what lies did Biden tell?” All right. They\u2019re bringing back a big one. And I think this is a sign of panic as well. Joe Biden point-blank said that Donald Trump is going to take your Social Security away from you by the year 2023. They\u2019re back to that. Folks, they\u2019re going back 50 years for their greatest hits, cutting Social Security<\/p>\n
The Democrat charge Republicans want to cut your Social Security or eliminate it, has been something they have used my entire life. I grew up hearing this. And they kept using this up until about 15 years ago, maybe 10. And they eventually gave up on it because no one ever lost their Social Security. And after trying to scare seasoned citizens for 40 and 50 years with something that never happened, seasoned citizens got wise to it and stopped paying attention to it, and it stopped being effective. And it became a joke. It never happened. And so they dropped it.<\/p>\n
Now they bring it back? They bring back cutting Social Security at the same time Donald Trump is allowing your city and state to be burned to the ground. Trump is just gonna destroy everything, and he wants to do this because he wants you to suffer. Now, I think if they\u2019re gonna go back to this cutting of Social Security business, they\u2019re probably figuring, well, people haven\u2019t heard this charge in 10 years so it\u2019s gonna be new to some seasoned citizens, but to me it just represents a tired and worn-out — which fits with Biden, by the way — tired and worn-out strategy.<\/p>\n
I mean, Biden comes out of his basement to give a speech for the first time in I don\u2019t know how long, and one of the centerpieces is a threat that Republicans are gonna cut your Social Security by 2023. Now they may be saying, “Well, it\u2019s worked in the past.” But I think it represents they know they\u2019ve got problems. They\u2019ve got problems with senior citizens. They\u2019ve got problems with the African-American vote. They\u2019ve got problems across the board. And they have been lying to themselves about this just like they lied to themselves all throughout 2016.<\/p>\n
They bought the polling data that Hillary was gonna win in a landslide, they didn\u2019t even work very hard. She didn\u2019t go campaign anywhere. Biden can\u2019t go very many places and campaign. They are so convinced of their own intellectual superiority and their own political superiority, and they still believe Trump\u2019s the biggest idiot they\u2019ve ever faced. So it\u2019s all lining up against them as it did in 2016. And we\u2019ll have more on this as we get more comments from Plugs. We rolled his speech and we\u2019ll have highlights coming up.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Rick in Midland Park, New Jersey. Great to have you, sir. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello, Rush. I\u2019m a first-time caller and I\u2019m a longtime student of the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Thank you, sir. Great to have you here with us.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And I just want to say myself and my beautiful wife, Sheryl, we\u2019ve been praying for your healing and just, you know, we\u2019ve been thinking of you and my three children have as well. We\u2019re great fans of yours and been praying for you and for your recovery.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I appreciate it. I\u2019m convinced they work. I really am.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, good.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I appreciate that very much.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I tell you, I am a union carpenter in New York City, and what I\u2019ve been noticing — and I\u2019ve always been a real Trump supporter, you know, in a building industry where he\u2019s done so much union construction in New York City. You know, in the eighties when I got in, you wanted to get on a Trump job because you knew he was very meticulous on how he\u2019s gonna build and he\u2019s just a detail-oriented guy.<\/p>\n
From my generation, when we came in, you know, we\u2019ve always been fans. Like, I\u2019ve been a big Trump fan for a long time, you know? But what I\u2019ve been noticing in 2016 compared to the now, there\u2019s much more support in the construction field for Donald Trump right now than there was even then.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it makes perfect sense to me \u2019cause you got Biden out there promising everybody he\u2019s gonna shut down the country if some scientist tells him to do it. (Snort!) If I\u2019m in the building trades, if I\u2019m in some kind of a union — or if I just want to go to work every day — and I hear the Democrat nominee for president say that, I\u2019m running for the hills! That\u2019s the last thing this country or economy needs.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no scientific reason whatsoever to shut it down, especially with everything that we\u2019re learning. I appreciate the call, Rick. Grab sound bite number 40. I wanted you to hear this. This is Biden. He was at Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh. He was talking here about the Republicans and Trump wanting to take away your Social Security.<\/p>\n
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BIDEN: How about Trump\u2019s plan to defund Social Security?<\/p>\n
RUSH: There isn\u2019t such a plan.<\/p>\n
BIDEN: The Social Security Administration\u2019s chief actuary just released a report saying that if a plan like the one Trump is proposing goes into effect, the Social Security trust fund would be, and I quote, “permanently depleted by the middle of calendar year 2023 with no ability to pay benefits thereafter.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: It\u2019s a —<\/p>\n
BIDEN: Put it plainly: Trump\u2019s plan would wipe out Social Security, period. You feel safer and more secure now?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I have to tell you… Feeling safe and secure? I don\u2019t feel safe and secure just watching this guy even read it off the prompter. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s gonna finish it! I\u2019ve no confidence. I don\u2019t think… It\u2019s something about him. He\u2019s not there. But this is an out-and-out lie. Trump is not gonna defund Social Security or the trust fund, just like he\u2019s insisting that nobody with a preexisting condition is gonna be denied health care.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re out there lying through their teeth, and they\u2019re reviving this one — which must mean that they\u2019re in deep, deep doo-doo, ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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