The Morning Report - 2/18/21 [J.J. Sefton]

Good morning, kids. Thursday, and it's almost impossible for me to process the fact that Rush Limbaugh is gone. I suppose after the theft of the election and the effective overthrowing of the nation formerly known as the United States of America, his passing is, as the saying goes, the other shoe dropping. On New Year's Day 2020, President Trump (now President-in-Exile Trump) and our nation were riding higher than perhaps any time since VJ Day 1945, despite the entire combined might of the malignant political, bureaucratic, corporatist, media and cultural entity that has since subsumed that nation focused to take him out. Then, from out of the blue (no pun, but fitting I suppose), Rush came on the air in late January or early February and dropped the news of his stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis on us. When he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, arguably deserved more than any other person who has received that medal over the years since off the top of my head I can't recall any of them, the word "harbinger" began creeping up from the back of my mind and planted itself front and center. . .

I must have started listening during the latter stages of Dubya's presidency, when Rush was merely almost always right 99.4% of the time. And that also coincides with my discovery of this here website, but I digress. It more or less coincided with my political consciousness-raising, which stirred during the Clarence Thomas hearings and became fully awakened ten years later on 9/11. In a quote attributed to Winston Churchill "If you're not liberal when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not conservative when you're older, you have no brain."

As has always been the case, the Left demeaned Rush as a shock jock; a loud, odious Svengali who brainwashes the knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, Bible-thumping rubes in flyover country what to think and what to say. And these fools have been spouting this same, tiresome, tedious trope for his entire career. What they have gotten so massively and spectacularly wrong is that Rush never told people what to say and think. He was only articulating what millions and millions of us were already saying and thinking but who never had a voice nor a national platform on which to say it. But it was more than just his superb presentation and absolute command of events, facts and the truth. It was his incredibly sharp wit and humor that minute after minute effectively pantsed Leftists and their sacred cows that kept Rush Limbaugh relevant, vital and successful for 33 years -- one third of a century -- on the air. Were it not for cancer, or perhaps an FCC that going forward will no doubt be unconstrained from that thing called the First Amendment, Rush Limbaugh would have been broadcasting perhaps for another 10 years, maybe even 15 or 20.

Through the dark days of the Obama reign of error and on into perhaps the even darker days when the abject corruption of our political systems was exposed for everyone who has eyes to see, Rush always tried reassuring worried listeners concerned about the trajectory of the nation "I'll let you know when it's time to panic." About two weeks ago, the last time he was behind that golden EIB microphone, I think knowing his time was almost up, he lamented the fact that despite everything, he couldn't convince enough people about the dangers, madness and insanity of Democrats and socialism. Despite the election being stolen, the fact remained that millions of people still legitimately cast their ballots for them. This was his reaction to Zhou Bai-Din's bleak, depressing assessment of the future:

[I]f I were president-elect of the country, it's the last thing I would say. Even if I believed it, I doubt that I would put it this way. But I don't believe this anyway. Our darkest days are ahead of us? What a bleak way of looking at things. ...We Americans have adapted to our problems. ...Our freedom has allowed our adaptability. If disaster is coming our way, we don't just sit there and endure it. We come up with ways to avoid it, to beat it back, to overcome it, but we don't just sit there and accept it. And, as such, we don't just resign ourselves to the fact that they're living in the darkest days because we, at least to this point, still have the greatest degree of freedom of any people on earth. Now, it's under assault and under attack and we all know this. But I don't believe our darkest days are ahead of us. I never have. People have been asking, "You've always told us you'd tell us when it's time to panic. Is it time?" It's never time to panic, folks. It's never, ever gonna be time to give up on our country. It will never be time to give up on the United States. It will never be time to give up on yourself. Trust me.

There's been an ocean of ink and pixels spilled on the subject of leadership. While Rush lamented what he perceived to be a failure, nothing could have been further from the truth. He (and Donald Trump) effectively awakened millions of people to the rot, corruption and danger that for so long we were unaware of or, worse, refused to see. No one person, not even Rush Limbaugh can fight this fight alone, though that in no way takes away from his achievements which I believe in the fullness of time will be a key to changing the course of history for the better.

Rush Limbaugh was the voice of freedom, the voice of America. I don't know where I would be today without him and for sure I don't know where I'll be tomorrow without him either.

May the Lord bless and keep Rush Limbaugh.

RUSH LIMBAUGH 1951-2021
• "As so many of you know, losing a loved one is terribly difficult, even more so when that loved one is larger than life."
  Kathryn Limbaugh: "Our Beloved Rush, My Wonderful Husband, Passed Away This Morning"
  
• Mark Steyn: "I am well aware of the ironies of the headline. My father liked to caution me with the old saw that the graveyard is full of indispensable men. But, as the conventional bias of the legacy media yielded to something far more severe from the woke billionaires of Social Media, Rush remained the Big Voice on the Right, the largest obstacle to the complete marginalization of conservative ideas in our culture. All of us who labored in his shadows owe it to him to continue the fight."
  The Indispensable Man: Rush Limbaugh, 1951-2021
  
• "One day I asked [my future father-in-law Orson Bean] why he had Rush Limbaugh's book The Way Things Ought to Be on his shelf. I asked him, 'Why would you have a book by this guy?' And Orson said, 'Have you ever listened to him?' I said yes, of course, even though I never had. I was convinced to the core of my being that Rush Limbaugh was a Nazi, anti-black, anti-Jewish, and anti-all things decent. Without berating me for disagreeing with him, Orson simply suggested that I listen to him again... This is where my rendezvous with destiny begins."
  Andrew Breitbart: How Rush Limbaugh Inspired Me
  
• "His honor, courage, strength, and loyalty will never be replaced."
  President-in-Exile Trump: "Rush Was a Patriot" and "Guiding Light with the Ability to See the Truth and Paint Vivid Pictures Over the Airwaves"
  
• "His passing at 70 leaves a large void to be filled in the very heart of the conservative movement."
  Rush Limbaugh: Death of a Giant
  
• "Acknowledging his undeniable impact, Limbaugh said, 'Even with all of that, there's still far more people than should be voting for Democrats, voting for the Left. And I chalk it up in part to having failed to convince people, persuade people of the truth.'"
  Fighting Through Failure: In Memory of Rush Limbaugh
  
• "He loved our country always, and came to a deep love of God. His massive audience will miss him, I will miss him, and the country will miss him."
  Hillsdale College's Dr. Larry Arnn: Rush Limbaugh "A Force of Nature"
  
• "Thanks to Limbaugh, everything about Democrats is predictable."
  How Rush Limbaugh Rescued Me From Liberalism
  
• "We toast the amazing Rush Limbaugh, mourn his death, celebrate his Salvation, and recognize his profound impact on this nation and conservatives everywhere."
  Toasting Rush Limbaugh and His Place in America
  
• Daniel Greenfield: "Rush Limbaugh was the original target of cancel culture, but they could never cancel him."
  Rush: The Fearless Warrior of the Conservative Counterculture Goes to His Rest
  * * * * *

• "He made it cool to be a patriot. He showed people how to stand up against the tide, the endless tide of tyranny."
  Mark Levin: "When We Looked at Rush, We Looked Up at Rush"
  
• David Horowitz: "A great American is no longer with us."
  Rush Limbaugh, RIP
  
• J. Christian Adams: "It is hard to say something about Rush Limbaugh that hasn't already been said, but I'll try. I was there on the day of his debut..."
  Rush Limbaugh Changed America
  
• R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.: "One of conservatism's greatest legends."
  RIP Rush Limbaugh
  
• Andrew Klavan: "Let us all speak, and fearlessly."
  Rush's Monument
  
• "Be not afraid, even as the jack-booted thugs that now run our society try to silence you. Tell them, like Rush Limbaugh, you will not be silenced, and like him, you will speak loudly and confidently, and most of all, do so with pride and courage."
  An Historian's Memorial to Rush Limbaugh
  
• "May his legacy live on."
  America Mourns the Loss of Legendary Radio Host and Patriot Rush Limbaugh
  
• "I remember when I first 'met' Rush. It was 1989, and some people at church had told me about this guy on the radio who was saying everything no one else dared to say."
  Grief and Hope in the Loss of Rush Limbaugh
  
• "Limbaugh's death helps illustrate the fact that standard conservative principles go beyond Donald Trump."
  Rush's Absence Can Make the Right Grow Stronger
  
• "Garnering an audience of more than 15 million listeners each week, Limbaugh transformed talk radio, becoming an indispensable voice of the conservative movement."
  Read the Most Touching Tributes to Broadcast Legend Rush Limbaugh

  ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

• "Two recent reports in the New York Times and Time point very strongly to the true story of the nature of government in the United States today. It is not a comforting one."
  Who Is In Charge, Anyway?
  
• Victor Davis Hanson: "An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don't have it threatens to drag us to the depths of unreason."
  Our Descent Into Collective Madness?

  CAPITOL HILL BLACK WEDNESDAY PROTEST AFTERMATH

• "The new lawsuit, filed by the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee Rep. Bennie Thompson, alleges that Trump, Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers conspired to violate the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which prohibits any actions designed to prevent Congress from carrying out its duties."
  Team-left Rep. Sues Trump, Giuliani, Proud Boys Despite Any Evidence of Conspiracy
  
• "It is plain to anyone with eyes to see that in this nation justice is not being equally applied. If people don't think this is a problem, they are part of it."
  Lies About Capitol Officer Brian Sicknick Ominously Foreshadow Democrats' "Truth Commission"
  
• "As of Monday, about 6,000 troops remain in Washington D.C. occupying the nation's capital, and may stay through the fall."
  National Guard May Occupy Washington D.C. Through the Fall
  
• "Denied bail, locked in jail indefinitely, relocated to Washington, DC, far from family and friends, with limited access to lawyers and little money, many face more than 10 years in jail for little more than trespassing on federal property."
  What About Justice for This Capitol "Rioter?"

  DEMOCRAT-LEFTIST & RINO SCANDALS, CRIMES, CHUTZ-POCRISY, MESHUGAS

• "According to the assemblyman, Cuomo went on to tell him ominously, 'we're in this business together and we don't cross certain lines and he said I hadn't seen his wrath and that he can destroy me.'"
  Report: Angel of Death Cuomo Threatening to "Destroy" NY Dem. Lawmakers If They Refuse to Publicly Support His Chinese Covid-19 Record
  
• "Rick Wilson dogged by history of unpaid taxes prior to founding profitable Super PAC."
  Lincoln Project Founder Paid Off Mortgage Days After NY Times Reported on Weaver Scandal
  
• "University at center of admissions bribery scandal welcomes Mike Madrid."
  O.J. Simpson's Alma Mater to Host Panel Discussion with Founder of Scandal-Plagued Lincoln Project
  
• "Louisiana said Candy Christophe 'violated her professional and ethical duty' with work on sex offenders."
  Dem Candidate Had Social Worker License Revoked for Violating Louisiana Regulations

  POLITICS

• Funny; we've all been saying that every day since November 4th.
  Aqualung Biden: "I Get Up in the Morning and Look at Jill and Say, 'Where the Hell Are We?'"
  
• "His claim to 'level' with the American people is bogus."
  Rambling Joe
  
• "The idea that McConnell is the right man to decide who is 'electable' is a joke."
  Mitch McConnell Has Learned Nothing And Forgotten Nothing
  
• "Alex Lasry, 33-year-old son of billionaire, running in Wisconsin."
  Dem Megadonor's Son Launches Senate Campaign
  
• "At a guess, Trump is going to use his popularity to demand that the Republican party start giving its primary loyalty to Americans."
  What Does Trump's Attack on McConnell Hold for the Future?
  
• "If the populist or any other Right hopes to dig itself out of its present hole, then it should stop worrying about ticking off the town bully."
  How to Push Back Against a Bully
  
• "H.R. 1 would undercut 11 states that bar heinous felons from voting."
  NC Dem Senate Hopeful Backs Bill Enfranchising Violent Felons
  
• "Haley's calculated post-election remarks about Trump, after years of working for him in the political spotlight and taking part in his election campaign, reveal her as the ultimate opportunist."
  The Coup de Grace for Nikki Haley's Presidential Aspirations
  
• "Government leadership is what is ripping this country apart. A true lover of this country can easily see that now is not the time for bold this or transformative that."
  Not The Time for Drastic Moves
  
• "When Biden promised to transform America, the media carefully refrained from asking what he meant. The past three weeks have illuminated his meaning."
  Transformation, Biden, and the Left

  CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS, FACTS AND AMERICA IMPRISONED

• I know when I will; when the last filthy Marxist on this planet draws his last breath.
  Piss-Hockey Psaki Says White House Can't Predict Exactly When "Everybody Will Feel Normal Again"
  
• "Either not telling the truth or mentally gone."
  Trump Rips Biden Over Vaccine Claim
  
• "The way I see it, getting the vaccine is for me. It protects me. If I am not getting it, it's my choice, and I'd only be hurting myself." (suddenly it's Charlie Gibson saying "Pro-choice? Never heard of it!" - jjs)
  Waitress Says She Was Fired for Not Getting Chinese COVID Vaccine
  
• "What is in the water at NBC and CNN? I like it!"
  Harris and Her Spokeswoman Stumble on CNN, NBC Over Questions Regarding School Re-Openings
  
• "...it's still wrong to blame him."
  PolitiFact Doubles Down on Garbage "Fact-Check" of Angel of Death Cuomo's Deadly Nursing Home Policy

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY

• "He claims to oppose it, but it's spreading in the progressive wing of his own party." (it's mainstream throughout the party - jjs)
  Will Biden Take On the New Anti-Semitism?

  AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• "Indeed, the Biden [junta] is doing everything they can to protect and encourage illegal immigration."
  DHS Officials Ditch Trump Union Deal That Could Have Halted Biden's Immigration Policy Changes

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• "While the taxpayers foot the bill for the January 6 Capitol incident, corporate media encourages a business model that makes future such events more likely by profit-seeking revolutionaries."
  Is the Corporate Leftist Media Rewarding Riots?
  
• "Even the Times' own characterization of the report demonstrates clear political bias on the part of the researchers, but the Paper of Record, of course, covers the slant as if it is strictly objective scientific research."
  NY Times Promotes "Study" From Team Left Advocacy Group as Scientific Health Research
  
• "The sad reality is that the pseudo-academic language in the video and the comments are not far off from the real-life posturing heard every day in college classrooms."
  This TikTok Illustrates How College Students Are Trained to Squash Honest Discussions Through Woke Language
  
• "Keeping all our legal options open." (meh, look who has "Dominion" over the courts - jjs)
  Parler Interim CEO Says Facebook's Sandberg Has a Problem
  
• "In a news article soon after Biden became president, the Washington Post demanded that a sign language interpreter be blacklisted from working in the Biden administration simply because she previously translated for conservative and pro-Trump organizations."
  Today's Blacklisted American: Biden Sign Language Interpreter Blackballed for Also Translating for Conservative Outlets

  SECOND AMENDMENT

• "... though it hasn't happened thus far, Joe Biden apparently isn't ruling out using executive orders to crackdown on the right to bear arms."
  Biden v. Guns: How the Second Amendment May Be in Peril

  ABORTION

• "It would be a more honest approach from him to say he disagreed with his Church on this important issue and that he was acting contrary to Church teaching."
  Biden Needs to "Stop Defining Himself as a Devout Catholic,' Archbishop Says

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• "Ben Rhodes laments Biden [junta's] 'defensive crouch' toward Israel."
  Former Obama Foreign Policy Hand Disappointed in Biden's Pro-Israel Posture
  
• "Biden, in his obsession with reversing every Trump policy, means to reinstate funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency -- hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars a year for an agency that teaches Palestinian children to hate 'the Enemy' Israel and believe "Jihad is the road of glory.'"
  New Hate-Mongering Scandals at UN Agency That Biden Means to Send Millions
  
• "Blinken said that while the [Chinese] COVID-19 crisis is still an 'immediate challenge,' there is "a longer challenge, but equally vital, in establishing the strongest possible global health structure going forward." He referred to news of a recent 'Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea," saying there is 'no time to waste.'"
  Spurious Sec. of State Antony Blinken: U.S. Will Pay "Over $200 Million" to WHO
  
• "Russia's vessel Fortuna has resumed laying pipes for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in Danish waters, the project consortium said on Saturday."
  Germany Defies Biden on Nord Stream 2 Pipeline, Offers Russia "Deeper" Energy Cooperation
  
• "Chinese leaders, if you know anything about Chinese history, it has always been -- the time when China has been victimized by the outer world is when they haven't been unified at home," he begins before abruptly adding "vastly overstated."
  WATCH: Biden Excuses Genocide of Uyghurs as a "Cultural Norm"
  
• "The Biden [junta] is stocking up with the same Democrat establishment cast that supported the project of China's rise to global dominance."
  Why You Should Be Skeptical of the New "Tough on China" Joe Biden
  
• "If history is any guide -- and in the Middle East, it usually is -- sometime in the next few weeks, Joe Biden will be 'tested' by Iran or their proxies in Syria and Lebanon."
  Assassination of Prominent Lebanese Activists Shows Hezbollah's Vulnerability
  
• "The eruption forced Sicily's Catania Airport to temporarily close -- which often happens when the volcano is active. No injuries or deaths have been reported."
  Italy's Mount Etna Volcano Erupts, Spewing Smoke and "A Rain of Stones"

  DEFENSE, MILITARY, SECURITY AFFAIRS

• "The NIH confirmed Tuesday that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is authorized to receive U.S. taxpayer funding through January 2024."
  Infamous Wuhan Lab Authorized to Receive US Taxpayer Funding, NIH Confirms

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE BUREAUCRACY, WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE

• "...he continues to demonstrate his commitment to take comprehensive action to address this systemic racism that persists today."
  Piss-Hockey Psaki: Joe Biden Supports Study of Slavery Reparations
  
• "Think about it. Reparations is the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to people who were never slaves."
  Larry Elder on Slavery Reparations: You Can't Get Something for Nothing
  
• "Walker testified as a witness against the proposal, citing both his faith and the impracticality of issuing reparations."
  Watch -- Herschel Walker on Reparations: "We Use Black Power to Create White Guilt"

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• "Tone deaf."
  Piss-Hockey Psaki Suggests Appointing a Woman to Run the Small Business Administration is a Great Help to Small Businesses
  
• "The economy will grow by almost 5% this year without any more stimulus, the budget office predicts."
  The CBO Just Destroyed the Case for Biden's $1.9 Trillion Chinese COVID "Relief"

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• "Liberal education collective claims asking students to show work is racist."
  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Behind "Anti-Racist" Math Push
  
• "Students showing their work, getting the right answer demonstrate 'white supremacy culture,' course claims."
  Oregon Education Department Promotes Course on "Dismantling Racism in Math"
  
• "The officers will be replaced with 'climate coaches,' who will be responsible for mentoring students, resolving conflicts, and addressing implicit bias." (let's see what happens when the first one gets shanked - jjs)
  Los Angeles School District Cuts More Than 130 Police Officer Positions and Will Replace Them With "Climate Coaches"
  
• "Still crazy after all these years."
  The Malignant Tradition of UC Irvine's Hate-Israel Activists
  
• "The teachers' union's outsize power comes at the expense of students, parents, and taxpayers."
  Chicago's Big Education, Inc.
  
• "They will not sit by while Democrats and teachers unions neglect their children."
  The Coming Parent Revolt Over School Reopening

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Our intrepid science reporter: "[The image] shows a channel going downhill to the northeast east in a series of steps, separated cliffs that in the southwest hikers call pour-offs, with the channel becoming initially deeper and then slowly becoming more shallow, until the next pour-off. On Earth the pour-offs would be waterfalls, with a deep pond at the base. On Mars?"
  Enigmatic Channel on Mars

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM

• "Leftists are no more or less prone to following The Science (TM) than any Republican. In simpler terms, The Science (TM) has become politicized."
  A Bad Week for The Science (TM)
  
• "Thanks to coal, Texas and other states won't freeze to death."
  Coal Saved Us
  
• "Instead of tap-dancing in order to lump frigid temperatures with man-made global warming, there should be a discussion of the geopolitical ramifications of America's energy policy."
  Green New Deal Frozen in its Tracks

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• "They call this upgrade 'long overdue.'"
  Black GOP Lawmakers Call on Museum to "Honor" Justice Clarence Thomas
  
• "The turn language is taking in politics calls to mind that controlling language to control thought was a prime goal of the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984."
  How Reading Great Literature Helps Protect You From Big Brother's Thought Control

  HITHER & YON

• "'Barb and Star' is original and funny at a time films that check either box, let alone both, are rare."
  If Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar is the Way of the Future, We're in Good Hands
  
• "Naomi Watts' breakout role powers a film with no easy explanations (thank goodness)."
  How Lynch's Mulholland Drive Invaded Our Dreams

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