Posted on 02/23/2025 7:26:57 AM PST by Starman417
I miss Rush Limbaugh. During the Biden years, I couldn’t help imagining him up in Heaven begging God to put him back in the game. Today I imagine him sitting in a bar smoking a cigar with Ronald Reagan and buying a round for the house every time a new EO drops. When he was here however there were a few things that he used to say that I loved because of their clarity. He always pointed out that illegal immigration was all about votes and that Democrats were hypocrites on the issue. He’d suggest that if it was real compassion that drove the issue, the solution was simple: immediately legalize them with the caveat that they could never vote. Democrats, of course, never went for it.
He used reductio ad absurdum to demonstrate the absurdity of Democrat policies. My favorite had to do with minimum wages. When Democrats were first calling for a minimum wage of $15, then $20, Limbaugh would argue “Why stop there” and suggest $50 or $200 an hour. He’d of course demonstrate how that lunacy would impact the rest of the economy and things would simply go awry.
I don’t know if he ever used the reductio argument on illegal immigration per se, but if so it would make perfect sense. As we know Democrats feel like anyone who makes it across the American border should be supported and become citizens. Imagine how that would work out if the 42 million people in Latin America who want to move to the US did, or the 162 million who want to do so worldwide. That would be an absolute disaster. We couldn’t afford the schooling, housing, healthcare, or food necessary to support them. America can absorb immigrants, but not unfettered millions of them, most of whom need to be supported by the government (AKA taxpayers) and have little interest in assimilating. America spent a reported $150 billion supporting illegals in 2023 (likely much more) and as a result towns and cities across the country had to cut basic services for citizens to do so. Now double or triple that, with its attendant cuts in services for Americans and the reductio quickly becomes absurd indeed.
The notion that the United States should or could support millions of people who cross our border illegally is simply insane. Well, technically it’s not exactly insane in that the people proposing it see it as a rational way to increase and sustain their wealth and power. Democrats need ever more people dependent on them to overcome the rationality of actual Americans who increasingly see them for the grifters they are.
What’s worse than the millions of people streaming across our borders is the fact that it’s been facilitated by, indeed driven by American taxpayers, through USAID and other government programs. Americans are literally spending billions of dollars a year to facilitate the invasion of their country by millions of illegals who then need to be taken care of by those same taxpayers!
Gad Saad, the author of The Parasitic Mind is writing a book called Suicidal Empathy where he is expected to talk about the west committing cultural suicide by importing tens of millions of non-westerners then essentially abandoning the fundamental concepts that underly western civilization to show empathy and avoid being called racists.
In one of Saad’s retweets is a chart showing crime statistics in Denmark. It showcases the fact that immigrants from third-world countries in Asia and Africa are committing violent crimes at an exponentially higher rate than Danes or citizens from other Western nations, yet Denmark continues to import these high-crime immigrants by the tens of thousands. Of course this same outcome is replicated throughout the west. In the US, we’re told that illegals commit fewer crimes than Americans, but the truth is – if you disregard the fact that 100% of illegals are in fact criminals by definition – the only group against whom that claim is actually true is black Americans, who commit crimes such as murder at literally 10 times the rate of the majority whites.
But we’re told allowing this migration from their broken countries is the “compassionate” thing to do…
Except it’s not. If one were to apply reductio ad absurdum to this situation the West would simply collapse Europe will end up part of the Caliphate and America will become just another Latin American banana republic. How will that work for prosperity? For freedom? For continued advances of civilization? From the looks of Iraq, Turkey, Mexico, and Venezuela, not particularly well.
The truth is, if liberals were interested in helping the disadvantaged from 3rd world countries, they’d force those fleeing to remain and clean up their own countries.
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I feel the same way. He was such an amazing person. Able to relate to the common person even in the most complex matters. I do not think there is another person out there that has his ability to effectively communicate with the public.
the same people who have no issue with illegal aliens flooding across our border, have NO issue with US Citizens getting body cavity checked at customs when traveling overseas.
Shouldn’t everyone be able to just walk past customs like the illegals do at the border?
My daughters were raised in the Volvo backseat on a healthy diet of Rush Limbaugh. They are happily married to two strong conservatives now. They are sadly the last Rush baby generation. But they are politically astute. And economically smart. Common sense is never to young to learn.
and some billionaire bought and bulldozed his home. It would of made an amazing museum to the great Rush that I would have traveled to see. He mentioned his home many times on his show.
My husband and I were just talking about that. It has been four years last week and we are still reeling. I used to listen to him while I prepared and ate lunch almost every day. He was the ultimate Alpha Male and he was so loved and admired.
What I wouldn’t give to hear Rush for just one week opining on the 2020 election, the Biden administration campaign, the 2024 election and the aftermath.
The man deserved at least one more shot at what has happened . . .
I really enjoyed Rush.
And I really love the legacy he has left of lots of different conservative interviewers and opinionators who drill down into subjects AND an audience that will listen and are willing to become educated and motivated for the 2 or 3 hours of the podcasts.
Rush 24/7 was one of the first podcasts.
Dittoes.
Very good article. Thanks for posting.
Great picture. I miss both of them.
As you can see, so do I!
You probably miss Ronald Reagan, too.
That time is over. Try to stay current.
I've been re-reading all of my biographies about him during this cold blast. And amazing is a good word. Precocious from childhood. The more you know about him, the more you admire him.
May he rest in peace, even if wayyyyyyy too soon.
Mega Dittoes
. Try to stay current.
Fondly remembered past times is never a bad thing. No one here is living in the past.
Forgotten evil history gets repeated.
Make it a Wonderful Day.
After seeing amateurish Jim Acosta has a podcast, I remarked to my wife, “Here’s another reason Rush set such a high standard.”
This is why Democraps went after talk radio; because they couldn’t compete in the marketplace of ideas expecting ad and subscription revenue. They get their funding from billionaire communists with no viewership. Now with the USAID trough empty, they are going to have to rely on Soros. Maybe they can bankrupt the old open society a$$ and his dipstick son.
Sir, Dittos.
( As this is a reminiscence of Mither Limbaugh. Sound of a piece of paper snapping. )
We are current. Wisdom is timeless.
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