[ April 18, 2024 ]
Photo: Rush Limbaugh at President’s Podium
“The fate of free market capitalism is on the line right now, and we have shut it down.”
Rush Limbaugh: Democrats ‘Salivating’ over Coronavirus as Opportunity to ‘Decapitate’ U.S. Economy
By: Breitbart, April 3, 2020:
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh warned Americans Thursday during his broadcast of the Democrats’ attempt to use the crisis of the coronavirus as a means to “decapitate the U.S. capitalist economy”:
So, they’re seeing this as an opportunity to decapitate the United States capitalist economy. And they are salivating over it. For them it’s the crisis opportunity of a lifetime to push through their agenda. Despite this, despite the fact that the facts show that it is capitalism and farmers and frackers and truckers who are saving us. People in many industries the left impugns and laughs at and makes fun of, they make fun of farmers, they make fun of people in flyover country, they make fun of people who make their living in the dirt, they make fun of people who take showers after work, they impugn all kinds of people in manual labor jobs. We would be [not] able to survive this without them.
Limbaugh said it is capitalism that is saving the country today. The popular host observed, for example, that by reversing net neutrality, the U.S. saved Internet connectability for emergency periods such as the one the nation is experiencing:
And, by the way, thank God for getting rid of net neutrality, because if we hadn’t gotten rid of net neutrality and if there were all kinds of these left-wing regulations on the Internet, it wouldn’t be up and running as it is today. Go to the U.K., go to the European Union, you’ll find out that the Internet and broadband service over there has been greatly interrupted in all this. Because they have massive more regulation of the Internet than we do.
Limbaugh criticized the left-wing media for joining with Democrats in portraying the current rise in unemployment as a failure of the Trump administration.
He observed MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): “Do you think more needs to be done in the next stimulus package now that we’ve seen these appalling historic unemployment numbers?”
Pelosi responded:
Yes. Yes, indeed. And not only do I think so. You can just ask the Democratic and Republican governors. I’m very proud of my governor, Governor Gavin Newsom in California. In this bill we want to include some infrastructure that directly relates to the coronavirus crisis. For example, clean water. Clean water is a very important part of our infrastructure proposal. Community health centers. There’s funding for additional money for construction, rehabilitation, et cetera, of community health centers. Internet, broadband. Look at how we’re all dependent. And then the grid that makes so much of that possible as part of that.
“Yeah, the grid. The grid’s electricity,” Limbaugh reacted to the clip:
You people tried to shut it down with your Green New Deal. What do you mean? You’re the biggest hypocrite that’s come along during this crisis. Clean water, who the hell is opposed to it? What do you mean we need clean water initiatives in the infrastructure bill? Is there anybody out there in favor of dirty water? Who is opposed to this?
In the same segment, Limbaugh cited Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne, who said Wednesday to his guest, Vice President Mike Pence:
I think the fate of free market capitalism is on the line right now and that the administration and Big Business have got to show the American people that this is the best system. This, to me, is the moment of truth when capitalism is being tested, and it is your administration — you and President Trump — that have gotta prove that it is the best way to go about life.
This crisis has opened the door for many utopian dreams including those espoused in song "Imagine" and advocacy "Global Citizenship"
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too https://t.co/GWFYbveeOE— Charles V Payne (@cvpayne) April 1, 2020
Pence agreed, responding that farmers and small businesses are shining stars during the current crisis:
The fact that you’ve got farmers in the field working, you got grocery store clerks working the checkout counter? It’s keeping food on the table for every American. What you’re seeing is the American people are rising to the challenge. Our businesses across the country are rising to the challenge.
“I am so glad that he mentioned this to the vice president,” Limbaugh said. “He’s exactly right — and coming on the face of Gavin Newsom in California. The fate of free market capitalism is on the line right now, and we have shut it down.”
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17 Comments
4 years ago
HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN !!!
America failing and it’s people hurting are absolute joy to some ears !!
4 years ago
Reply to
Anthony Silvio
The leftist atheists need to destroy the US in order to save it.
4 years ago
Nancy P: “Clean water is a very important part of our infrastructure proposal.”
Yeah, right. That’s why they haven’t built any new dams since the 1970s, despite voters passing the bonds. The Dems used the money for their own agendas.
4 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Dems: “Now that we’ve just had an earthquake, let’s pour a ton of money into our cookie jar to dole out to our friends and cronies … oh, uh, we promise to fix the potholes this time – the same ones we have promised to fix during every other crisis …”
Enemedia: “Demokkkrats saving us from clinging to our money …”
Maroons: “That’s a great idea!”
Americans: “When will can we terminate the Demokkkrat party, send their leaders to jail (with their RINO collaborators), and have our country back?”
you and yours have a wonderful weekend, AA!
4 years ago
“Imagine there’s no countries…”
That’s what got us into this mess in the first place! Globalism and China. The Trump Travel Ban on China was the right move.
“And no religion, too…”
Except Islamism.
Another dumb thing SJWs allowed into the west. and ISIS used to spread like wildfire.
4 years ago
“The fate of free market capitalism is on the line right now, and we have shut it down.”
The way to combat this on the political side is to put the focus on 2 things:
CHINA
and Democrats as the party of china.
it’s tougher to blame capitalism when people know where the virus came from.
4 years ago
Reply to
TD
Pam’s other article is titled:
“White House trade adviser vows to cut reliance on foreign medical supplies”
It’s not really capitalism that should be questioned but Globalism.
We then push for more capitalism in our own markets (i.e. making medical supplies locally).
4 years ago
Limbaugh owns his own network, unlike Trish Regan at Fox Business Network who first advanced this prediction and got unceremoniously fired for it.
Since the First Amendment is still in place, when does she get her job back, along with profuse apologies and a big fat raise?
4 years ago
ALL of the “pork barrel” trash that was inserted in the WuFlu bill MUST be DEFUNDED IMMEDIATELY! This Militarized flu out of China must not be used to by-pass the American SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND which by the way IS the American Constitution. All the attempts to by-pass the Constitution by the NAZIS MUST be halted!!!
4 years ago
I can’t help but believe this entire crisis was manufactured in the bowels of the Communist Internationals that are operational throughout the world and controlled by the ChiComs.
4 years ago
Reply to
VTS
Here are the facts that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the CCP Virus is a deliberate attack on the US and the West. Read it and please forward it to all of your contacts. Go to Tsarizm at https://creativedestructionmedia.com/analysis/2020/03/31/how-coronavirus-was-started-and-spread-globalisms-hail-mary-pass/#comment-11386
4 years ago
“…and coming on the face of Gavin Newsom in California.” What the hell did Limbaugh mean by that comment? A facial?
