KEN: It\u2019s interesting today how so many things are connected. The left has a way of everything gets connected. We talked at the top of the hour about how the left has this ability to put race into anything — and the minute they do that, people that are caring and respectful people already start to panic. That\u2019s the craziest things about what\u2019s happening in this country now.<\/p>\n
Good people, people that again treat others with respect, I don\u2019t know why they get bullied by corporations and woke clowns and people from showbiz and the news media, \u2019cause the majority of Americans are not racist. We don\u2019t need to be woke. We\u2019re awake. And that\u2019s what\u2019s happening now. And it just… It boggles my mind that — the companies that are getting leveraged, and then you combine that…<\/p>\n
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See, it\u2019s all connected. You combine that with the censorship that\u2019s going on now, and it\u2019s pretty much 1930s Germany. In fact, I spoke recently with a Holocaust survivor, and she talked in depth about that is the part of history — and she was a Holocaust survivor. That\u2019s the part of history that is now being replicated now with what you see going on in the news. You cannot ask questions. You cannot investigate.<\/p>\n
You get banned, you get libeled, you get slandered. You get deplatformed, deprogrammed, demonetized. As long as you follow along and you do what you\u2019re told, you get pseudo free speech. But we don\u2019t have free speech anymore. And over the years, I remember Rush talking about this, and I used to wonder as a regular listener, “When is this gonna happen?” I mean, when are we going to log on to look for something…<\/p>\n
Maybe we hear some — and I know this happens to people in this audience. You listen to the Rush Limbaugh Show. You may listen to other conservative sources. You hear something, and you immediately go to find it, and if it hasn\u2019t reached the Rush Limbaugh website yet, you\u2019re like, “Where is that?” The news media is so quick to shut down and protect anything that hurts what they\u2019re… Whether it\u2019s a big corporation, whether it\u2019s the Democrat Party, whether it\u2019s a narrative.<\/p>\n
That, to me, is one of the most frightening things. Now, recently Twitter locked out a journalist because he tweeted criticism of the cofounder of BLM. Now, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve heard this story or not outside of talk radio or a conservative platform, but she bought five houses. Yeah. Because Black Lives Matter — and so does the cash, $90 million Black Lives Matter raised last year. And feel free to email us and let us know where the money went, \u2019cause we\u2019re still trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n
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We\u2019re trying to figure out where $90 million went. Because bricks and, you know, torches are not that expensive. But that is a story that was pretty much blacked out of the mainstream news media. And if you tried to put it up on another platform like Twitter, you get censored. This should terrify Americans, because if you look at the Constitution, the First Amendment… Well, it\u2019s the first. It\u2019s the First Amendment, and we have…<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve had it taken from us. Speech, the right to assemble. We\u2019ve been told where and how to worship, when to worship, where to eat, where to go to school — if we can even go to school. And the comments! That\u2019s the scary part. You go online; you want to ask a question. My goodness. The Biden administration does it to people that claim to be part of legitimate news organizations. They even shut down some of their favorite networks.<\/p>\n
And BLM — and we mentioned this before — is one of Big Tech\u2019s sacred cows. I mean, BLM intimidates everything. They pretend, “We\u2019re gonna go and we\u2019re gonna get justice!” No, we\u2019re gonna threaten corporations. We\u2019re gonna threaten neighborhoods. You\u2019re gonna threaten donors, and you\u2019re gonna threaten sponsors and things of that nature. That\u2019s what BLM does. Because if they really cared about justice, they would see the justice that is being accomplished.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re gonna see the successes, and then they\u2019ll focus together with the rest of us to fix the things that are broken. Because the majority of us don\u2019t want poorly trained cops, bad cops, innocent people getting killed. So you have to ask yourself: After a while, what\u2019s the point? So this guy\u2019s name is Jason Whitlock, and he\u2019s very outspoken, and he went after this BLM cofounder — and then Twitter got rid of him, banned him. Here\u2019s Rush.<\/a><\/p>\n RUSH: I have a column here by Jason Whitlock at the website Outkick.com. “China\u2019s ban on Twitter might be its single greatest advantage over the United States of America. Social media has accelerated America\u2019s transition from a competition-based society to an attention-based one. This acceleration can be most easily seen in the sports world.”<\/p>\n
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<\/a>This is a key point, folks, so stick with me here. “Social media,” which is poison, “has accelerated America\u2019s transition from a competition-based society to an attention-based one.” In other words, competition is bad. It hurts people\u2019s feelings \u2019cause there are people that don\u2019t win, and it\u2019s not fair. So what have we transitioned to? “Notice me, notice me! Hey, hey, notice me, I\u2019m here, I matter, hey.” And as long as you notice somebody and they can get your attention, they\u2019re happy. But don\u2019t expect them to have to compete for it.<\/p>\n