{"id":4408,"date":"2016-01-21T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T17:11:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-06-13T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T15:31:24","slug":"god_to_shut_down_federal_government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/01\/21\/god_to_shut_down_federal_government\/","title":{"rendered":"God to Shut Down Federal Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/videos\/37\/69722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/listentoit.jpg\" alt=\"Listen to it Button\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Did anybody see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/ny-post-front-page-mocks-857856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cover of the New York Post<\/a> this morning? You did? I love it. The headline: &#8220;This Weekend Will Be Whiter Than the Oscars.&#8221; Big snowstorm (laughing) &#8212; not supposed to laugh, right? It sounds like a hate crime of some sort on the front page of the New York Post. Maybe another argument for global warming. Snow is racist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/ny-post-front-page-mocks-857856\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img id=\"eZObject_116733\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snow-Shut-Down-E.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/a>Anyway, the big news about all this is that the mayors of Washington, DC, and New York City and so forth, other officials, can\u2019t wait to be first to close schools. Big blizzard coming. So schools are gonna be shut down. And you know what else is going to shut down? The federal government is going to shut down. (gasping) Oh, no. Yes indeed, another government shutdown, this one brought to us by God. God must be a Republican, then. Well, it\u2019s an act of God, force majeure, this is an insurance language, something like this happens, they call it act of God.<\/p>\n<p>Never hear anything terrible about how a snowstorm shuts down the government. We never hear about how people can\u2019t function. I mean, federal workers are praised to the hilt for trying to get in, and we are told to respect their efforts and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: By the way, folks, if you want to chronicle, if you want to observe&#8230; This only applies to those of you, let\u2019s see, what, over 40, maybe 45. If you want firsthand evidence and illustrations of how this country is changing, I want you to watch how the media and the citizens in affected areas react to the weather forecast of the upcoming blizzard. You\u2019re going to see grocery stores ransacked and looted. Well, not looted. What\u2019s the word when everybody goes in there and&#8230;? (interruption) Hoarding. You\u2019re gonna see warnings all over the place about you better not shovel or you\u2019re going to get a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>If you do get a heart attack, how to get to the hospital in the snow. It\u2019s gonna be incredible. And you\u2019re gonna wonder, if you\u2019re 45 or older, &#8220;What has become of people?&#8221; One of my favorite stories is the Donner Party. You know the Donner Party? The covered wagon gang that was traveling to California through Nevada. They went over the Sierra Nevada in winter and it got so bad that, to survive, they had to resort to cannibalism, and they later found a journal from one of the members of the Donner Party who kept a journal, and the only reference to the weather they found was, &#8220;It was an especially tough winter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_116745\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/RushGlobalWarmSnow.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nThere wasn\u2019t a bunch of whining. There wasn\u2019t a whole bunch of moaning. There wasn\u2019t a bunch of, &#8220;Oh, my God, we\u2019re gonna die!&#8221; Just one reference: &#8220;Wow, this is a bad winter.&#8221; (interruption) Yeah, you can see the difference in toughness. Of course, back then there weren\u2019t too many options. The Donner Party couldn\u2019t head to the airport and get on an airplane, or head to Florida. They had to deal with it, of course. But that\u2019s the point. You watch. You\u2019ll see. Of course, this is just a weather forecast now. You\u2019ve got all these weather agencies hyping this.<\/p>\n<p>And then you throw the global warming people in, and the El Nino people in. By the time everybody gets through with this, this gonna be the absolute worst&#8230; This may be a snowstorm that could cause the earth to lose its balance on its axis and forever go out of its orbit with the sun. I mean, anything\u2019s possible here. That\u2019s how boundless the hysteria and the panic will be. You mark my words. I remember they played a football game in a blizzard in Denver. The San Diego Chargers. They had 25 inches of snow and they played a football game.<\/p>\n<p>The players loved it. In Philadelphia, they canceled the football game at a forecast of eight inches of snow some years ago. I remember being in New York there were two or three 25-inch snowfalls. Yeah, the weather forecast. But it didn\u2019t cause panic and hoarding and all this &#8212; and the cabs ran and everything. (interruption) What\u2019s this? What\u2019s this? Oh, Snerdley with evidence that I\u2019m already right. What is this from? (interruption) &#8220;NBC News Washington: States of Emergency Declared in Virginia, DC, and Maryland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, here we go. It isn\u2019t gonna be long before you get round-the-clock weather forecasts on the cable news networks and all that. They\u2019ll have reporters standing out there in two-inch deep snow, four-inch deep snow, three-foot deep snow or whatever telling you not to do what they\u2019re doing &#8212; and not to shovel. You might have a heart attack. I know what you\u2019re saying. &#8220;Mr. Limbaugh, are you so insensitive that you\u2019re not even concerned about potential suffering?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, not at all.<\/p>\n<p>People are looking for evidence of how the country\u2019s evolving and changing, and it\u2019s gonna be right in front of our faces, whether you want to admit it or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Did anybody see the cover of the New York Post this morning? You did? I love it. The headline: &#8220;This Weekend Will Be Whiter Than the Oscars.&#8221; Big snowstorm (laughing) &#8212; not supposed to laugh, right? It sounds like a hate crime of some sort on the front page of the New York Post. 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