I wish I could listen to Rush analyzing today\u2019s news, including former President Trump\u2019s indictment, the war-without-reason in Ukraine, the dollar losing its reserve status, the militant transgender movement, and a host of other issues leading many of us to begin a new transition, from concern to panic.<\/p>\n
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YouTube screen grab<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The pillars of civilization are under attack. These include our economy, our relationship with the rest of the world, our social fabric, and our constitutional liberty. The attacks and resulting mayhem are unprecedented and cheered on by one political party while treated like a minor hiccup by the opposition party.<\/p>\n Both parties are the problem and while the Republican party may be preferable to the Democrat party, in their current form, they are hardly the solution to our mess.<\/p>\n The media is cheering on atrocities that a generation or two ago they would be castigating at the top of their lungs. Principled politicians and statesmen are nonplussed, uttering hackneyed comments about \u201cdemocracy,\u201d\u00a0\u201crule of law,\u201d\u00a0and \u201clet the process play out\u201d as our \u201cshining city upon the hill\u201d is washed away like a sand castle on a beach during a rising tide.<\/p>\n <\/ins> Should we be worried? What would Rush say?<\/p>\n The economy is a mess with daily news stories about another country abandoning the U.S. dollar for trade and commerce, favoring the Russian ruble, Chinese yuan, or gold, but no longer the U.S. dollar. What happens as these countries, now making up most of the world population, start dumping dollars?<\/p>\n Today\u2019s current inflation will look the good old days. As these dollars otherwise held and used by many countries flood back into the U.S., \u201ctoo many dollars chasing too few goods\u201d will go into overdrive, fueling hyperinflation, destroying the savings and pensions of most Americans, leading to economic misery as we see in Argentina or Venezuela.<\/p>\n Politicians are oblivious, those of both parties continuing to throw money into a losing proxy war in Ukraine, adding to a national debt that we soon will be unable to even pay the interest on. Is that panic time?<\/p>\n Our relationship with the rest of the world is worse than it has been in memory. New alliances between our friends and enemies are rapidly developing, as in the new bromance between Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia. Imagine your boyfriend dumping you for the girl you hate, both now telling you to get lost.<\/p>\n Four years ago, President Trump visited Saudi Arabia and was treated like royalty, participating in the sacred sword dance<\/a>. Today CIA Director William Burns snuck over to Saudi Arabia to complain<\/a> about the U.S. being \u201cblindsided\u201d over the new Saudi-Iranian alliance. Now the Saudi crown prince<\/a>\u201cdoes not care\u201d if Biden misunderstands him.<\/p>\n The BRICS country are forming a new \u201cbig club\u201d and as George Carlin would tell Biden and America, \u201cyou ain\u2019t in it.\u201d\u00a0America is weak and has few friends to call on. If World War III\u00a0breaks out, who is on our side? Canada will supply proper gender pronouns and most of the EU would cozy up to Russia or China to save their own skins.<\/p>\n The social fabric is melting. Traditional religion and worship, the societal guard rails of right and wrong, is treated as a fanatic cult, while men claiming to be women, and vice versa, are\u00a0lauded as the highest form of evolution and enlightenment.<\/p>\n A Lutheran \u201cpastor\u201d compared<\/a> the Nashville shooter to Jesus. How sad that during Easter week, this Lutheran church ditched Christianity for the new religion of Transgenderism.<\/p>\n This new religion, which \u201cmakes America stronger,\u201d\u00a0as President Biden recently remarked<\/a>, is also busy killing Americans. In Nashville a week ago, a transgender activist killed six Americans, including three children, in cold blood.<\/p>\n Is there outrage? Yes, but not what logical thought would suggest. The left was far more concerned about \u201canti-trans rhetoric\u201d rather than the six Americans murdered in Nashville. This Washington Post headline<\/a> says it all, \u201cThe right exploits Nashville shooting to escalate anti-trans rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n The transgender movement came into its own only a few years ago. How could America have won two world wars and become the greatest, most prosperous, and freest country in the world without today\u2019s proper pronouns, transgenders serving in the military, Sam Brinton securing our nuclear detritus when he was not stealing luggage, or drag queen story hours grooming young children?<\/p>\n Last week\u2019s news was of another transgender terrorist was arrested<\/a> in Colorado Springs for planning a school shooting and bombing. This is becoming the new norm.<\/p>\n Yet the media and health authorities are surprisingly incurious about the toxic stew of hormones and mental health medications that these shooters may have taken.<\/p>\n Instead, health authorities are obsessed with ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, FDA-approved and safe drugs that have decades of use, calling them \u201chorse paste\u201d and castigating any physician daring to prescribe them for their COVID patients.<\/p>\n A state supreme court<\/a> decrees boys can participate in girls’ sports. Washington state allows<\/a> children as young as 13 years to undergo surgical castration without parental consent. Yet parental consent<\/a> is needed to get a tattoo for children under age 18.<\/p>\n Feminist Camille Paglia believes<\/a>, \u201cAndrogyny becomes prevalent as a civilization is starting to unravel. You find it again and again and again in history.\u201d And here we are with the Western World, America leading the way, promoting the unraveling of Western civilization. What fills the void?<\/p>\n \u201cGender affirming care\u201d will destroy thousands of children with future sterility<\/a>, inability to have an orgasm<\/a>, and a lifetime<\/a> of mental health and physical issues. This is systematic child abuse. Should we panic over this damage to our next generation?<\/p>\n Lastly, is the rule of law. What kind of country weaponizes its judicial system to indict and arrest the leading opponent of the political party in power? When other countries do this, we send in Jimmy Carter and organize a color revolution to throw out the corrupt and tyrannical government. In America, the ruling class makes excuses, and the opposition party says little.<\/p>\n A rogue D.A. accuses a former president of covering up nonexistent crimes and the media claps like seals at \u201cupholding democracy\u201d while Republicans mutter about \u201cletting the process play out.\u201d\u00a0Republicans bring a nerf gun to a real gun fight and wonder why they lose.<\/p>\n An FEC commissioner asserted<\/a> about Trump\u2019s supposed crimes, \u201cIt\u2019s not a campaign finance violation. It\u2019s not a reporting violation of any kind.\u201d In a banana republic, those in charge define crimes, and it is situational, applying only to Trump and not Clinton or Biden.<\/p>\n Riots in the summer of 2020 were cheered on.\u00a0 Some \u201cRepublicans\u201d like Sen.\u00a0Mitt Romney marched<\/a> in solidarity with the rioters. There were few arrests or prosecutions, even as cities and businesses were destroyed, yet mostly peaceful protesters at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 were incarcerated by the hundreds for long periods without due process.<\/p>\n Protest outside an abortion clinic and get arrested<\/a>. Protest outside the home of and threaten a U.S. Supreme Court justice and law enforcement\u00a0stands down<\/a>.<\/p>\n One president, while a senator and vice president, improperly and carelessly stored classified documents and was given a pass. Another president, with full declassification authority, stored declassified documents under Secret Service protection and his home was raided by the FBI and now a special counsel is conjuring up a crime to charge the former president with.<\/p>\n A two-tiered justice system is the new norm with the ruling class making laws on the go, to suit their needs and ambitions. Is this the Soviet Union or East Germany? No, it is or at least was, the United States of America. Is it time to panic?<\/p>\n Will the hapless GOP fight back or simply send out more fundraising letters and emails? Are there any Republican D.A.s or attorneys general\u00a0with the cojones<\/em>to convene a grand jury and indict Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, the Biden family, or Nancy Pelosi? Fat chance. This is the only way to fight back but the current GOP prefers taking the high road to irrelevancy.<\/p>\n The ruling class elites, regardless of political party, protect their own. As Trump has a double-digit lead<\/a> over his presumed GOP establishment primary opponents, expect the tyrannical attacks to continue. If Trump wins the GOP nomination, every Democrat D.A. or A.G. will indict Trump for anything, tying up his campaign in court.<\/p>\n This is what\u2019s called \u201clawfare,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0the new Democrat blood sport where anything goes while Republicans play by Marquis of\u00a0Queensbury rules and, not surprisingly, continue to be punched in the nose and lose the fight. One might ask, why vote Republican<\/a>?<\/p>\n Why is Trump, now a private citizen, attacked, and not Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, or any other potential GOP candidate? That should speak volumes. The left fears Trump far more than they fear any other candidate who can be bought, manipulated, and will follow the \u201cbig club\u201d rules, unlike Trump, who is the only one seriously fighting the ruling class (drain the swamp) corruption.<\/p>\n But if Trump is taken down, who is left to continue this fight? At this point there is no fighter on par with Trump, else the elites and administrative state would be attacking that person.<\/p>\n Given the state of the country and attacks on the best person to restore American greatness, Rush Limbaugh\u2019s question of \u201cIs it time to panic?\u201d is more relevant today than at any time in recent history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Brian C. 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