The world misplaced an awesome conservative voice when Rush Limbaugh handed away in 2021, and The Gateway Pundit misplaced a good friend.
Rush was by no means afraid of standing up for the reality and pushing again in opposition to the left. In August 2019, Rush defended The Gateway Pundit from massive tech censorship.
Yearly, Rush shared the story of Thanksgiving with a message of hope and inspiration for all Individuals.
Watch:
Beneath is the transcript through Official Rush Limbaugh:
RUSH: So, my second ebook was See, I Instructed You So. The primary ebook is The Means Issues Should Be and the second ebook is See, I Instructed You So. “Chapter 6, Lifeless White Guys, or What the Historical past Books By no means Instructed You: The True Story of Thanksgiving.”
Now, usually what I do is solely learn from my first ebook. However there has now been one other ebook added within the Rush Revere collection, and the primary Rush Revere ebook is Rush Revere and the Courageous Pilgrims. These are kids’s books that have been written to assist younger folks get the true tales of America’s founding as a result of so little of it’s truly accurately taught.
Within the kids’s ebook model, Rush Revere and the Courageous Pilgrims, I went into somewhat bit extra element concerning the Indians, the Native Individuals who helped the arrival Pilgrims and what that story truly is and the way the True Story of Thanksgiving has been obscured by what’s taught — what I used to be taught, you have been in all probability taught. Right here’s the model you have been in all probability taught:
The Pilgrims arrived right here after an arduous journey throughout the Atlantic Ocean. They didn’t know why they have been, had no thought what to do. They’d nothing. The Indians took pity on them. The Indians noticed them, and the Indians saved them. The Indians taught ’em methods to do issues they didn’t know methods to do, like develop meals, catch beavers, stuff like that.
The Indians saved them, and the Pilgrims thanked them by rising a complete bunch of meals and having this massive feast. So, the story of Thanksgiving that’s taught is principally how with out the Native Individuals there wouldn’t be a rustic as a result of the Pilgrims would have died. No less than the Pilgrims have been good sufficient to pay the Indians again with a giant Thanksgiving dinner.
That’s by no means what occurred. It’s not even near what occurred, which is why I made a decision to write down about it. Now, within the Revere ebook — the kids’s ebook, as I say — I went into higher element about a number of the Native Individuals who offered help to the arrival Pilgrims, notably a younger native by the title of Squanto.
Now, I’m doing present prep at present, and I come throughout a narrative in The Federalist. I quote from this web site on a regular basis, and I’m studying this story right here, and, by the way in which, people, it’s… (chuckles) I don’t know. It’s proper out of the Rush Revere ebook, and it’s proper out of my See, I Instructed You So ebook. There’s a complete lot of dialogue right here of Squanto, who he was, what he did, how he helped, the small print.
The purpose is The True Story of Thanksgiving is spreading, and I couldn’t be happier about that. Backside line: It’s spreading. I’m simply gonna minimize to the chase right here earlier than entering into studying the textual content. The Actual Story of Thanksgiving, going again to the very first early days of the Pilgrims arriving at Plymouth Rock, is that socialism failed.
That is crucially necessary at present, as a result of we now have simply elected a Democrat Get together that’s going to implement socialism in the event that they win these two seats in Georgia, they usually’re gonna attempt regardless. But when they win these two seats in Georgia, you may say goodbye to the US as you recognize it. It’ll develop into a socialist state. It’ll start the method of changing into…
Effectively, we’re method down the highway in the direction of it anyway. So, it’s crucially necessary right here for folks to know this. It’s not antiquated. It’s not a cliche. It’s not one thing that you would be able to make enjoyable of individuals about. You already know, it was once I first began this present within the late eighties, early nineties, when you dared to discuss with the Soviet Union as “communist,” folks made enjoyable of you.
“Ah, come on, Rush! You see a communist behind each rock,” they usually tried to ridicule you out of figuring out communists and communism. Castro, the ChiComs. I by no means buckled, however lots of people did — they usually’re doing it now. In the event you say, “America, the Democrat Get together’s on the pathway to socialism,” they make enjoyable of you. They mock you.
“Come on! You don’t consider that. You’ll be able to’t consider that! That’s simply foolish,” they usually attempt to mock you and make enjoyable of you, to silence you. However, people, it’s actual. Now… “The story of the Pilgrims begins within the early a part of the seventeenth century… The Church of England underneath King James I used to be persecuting anybody and everybody who didn’t acknowledge [the church’s] absolute civil and non secular authority,” truly, the state.
“Those that challenged ecclesiastical authority and those that believed strongly in freedom of worship have been hunted down…” That is in England within the 1600s. They “have been hunted down and imprisoned, and typically executed for his or her beliefs. A gaggle of separatists,” individuals who didn’t need any a part of this, “first fled to Holland,” they appreciated picket sneakers and cheese, “and established a group.”
They have been there for eleven years. “After eleven years, about forty of” these separatists who appreciated picket sneakers and cheese, “agreed to make a deadly journey to the New World…” They’d heard about it. Some new, thrilling place that hadn’t been developed. They knew they might “face hardships,” hardships such as you and I don’t know — and I’m not preaching to you.
I’m simply telling you, we don’t know the hardship these folks endured. We will’t. We’re method too superior now. Individuals who lived within the 1600s wouldn’t consider life at present. (Snort!) Attempt to clarify flight, jet journey. They wouldn’t perceive it. They knew they might “face hardships,” however paramount significance to them was residing freely and worshiping God based on the dictates of their very own consciences, their very own beliefs.
That’s what they have been denied the liberty to do in England. “On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a complete of 102 passengers, together with forty” of those separatists, the Pilgrims. There have been simply 40 of them. They have been “led by William Bradford. On the journey” throughout the Atlantic… You speak about one thing that needed to be scary and scary?
The Mayflower was not a lot greater than a 50-foot boat, and 102 folks on it. “On the journey, Bradford arrange an settlement, a contract” if you’ll, “that established simply and equal legal guidelines for all [40] members of the [Pilgrim] group, no matter their spiritual beliefs.” It didn’t matter what their spiritual beliefs have been.
These are the legal guidelines they have been all agreeing to reside by. “The place did the revolutionary concepts,” these legal guidelines, come from? We’re speaking concerning the Mayflower Compact. That’s what Bradford wrote. The Mayflower Compact derived “[f]rom the Bible. The Pilgrims have been a folks utterly steeped within the classes of the Outdated and New Testaments.”
They have been devoutly spiritual folks. It doesn’t matter what else is claimed about them (and even that’s denied), they have been devoutly spiritual. “They regarded to the traditional Israelites for his or her instance. And, due to the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they by no means doubted that their experiment would work.”
They by no means doubted they might get to the New World. They by no means doubted that when they acquired there, they might thrive. The journey was lengthy; it was arduous; it was harmful. And after they lastly landed, when the Pilgrims lastly landed in New England in November, based on William Bradford’s detailed journal, they discovered a chilly, barren, desolate wilderness. Think about New England because it exists at present as nothing however rocks, forest, undeveloped nature in November and getting colder.
There have been no buddies to greet them. There was no shelter of any form apart from hiding underneath a tree, there was nothing, people. It was desolate. There have been no resorts. There have been no inns. There have been no locations to wash up. There have been no homes. I imply, this was actual hardship. The sacrifice that that they had made for the liberty to worship was simply starting.
Throughout that first winter — keep in mind, they arrive in November — throughout that first winter, half of them, together with William Bradford’s personal spouse, died of hunger, of illness, publicity to the weather. Now we’re getting near what you have been taught at school. When spring lastly got here — and, by the way in which, writing that doesn’t do it justice. Spring didn’t simply lastly come. It was a survival. It was an act of survival that you simply and I can’t probably relate to or perceive.
American Particular Forces can. Army individuals who’ve been educated can perceive what the Pilgrims have been — you and I can’t. We’ve by no means completed something like that first winter within the New World. They survived it. Spring lastly got here. They did meet the Indians, the Native Individuals who have been there, who did assist them in planting corn and fishing for cod. They confirmed ’em the place the beavers have been so the beavers might be skinned for coats, different issues. You animal rights individuals are not gonna like a few of this story, nevertheless it occurred.
However even at this, even with this diploma of help from the Indians, the Native Individuals, there wasn’t any prosperity but. They’d the Mayflower Compact. They’d these legal guidelines they have been residing by, and there was no prosperity. And I’m wondering why. Now, that is necessary to know right here, people, as a result of that is the place trendy American historical past classes finish, with the Indians instructing the Pilgrims methods to eat, methods to fish, methods to pores and skin beavers, and all that.
That’s the place it ends. And that’s the feel-good story. However that doesn’t even get near the true story. You already know, Thanksgiving is definitely defined in some textbooks as a vacation for which the Pilgrims gave due to the Indians for saving their lives. It wasn’t that. That occurred, however Thanksgiving was a religious expression of gratitude, the Pilgrims, to God for his or her survival, and every part that was part of it.
Now, right here’s the half that has been omitted. The unique contract the Pilgrims entered into in Holland — that they had sponsors. They didn’t have the cash to do that journey on their very own. They’d sponsors. There have been service provider sponsors in London and in Holland. And these service provider sponsors demanded that every part that the Pilgrims produced within the New World would go into a standard retailer, a single financial institution, if you’ll. And that every member of the Pilgrim group was entitled to at least one share.
So all people had an equal share of no matter was in that financial institution. All the land they cleared, all the homes they constructed belonged to that financial institution, to the group as properly. They usually have been going to distribute it equally, as a result of they have been gonna be honest. So all the land that they cleared and all the homes they constructed belonged to all people. Belonged to the group. Belonged to the financial institution, belonged to the widespread retailer. No one owned something. They simply had an equal share in it. It was a commune.
The Pilgrims established a commune, basically. Forerunner of the communes we noticed within the sixties and seventies out in California. They even had their very own natural greens, by the way in which. Yep. The Pilgrims, forerunners of natural greens. After all, what else might there be? No such factor as processed something again then.
Now, William Bradford, who had develop into the governor of the colony ’trigger he was the chief, acknowledged that this wasn’t gonna work. This was expensive and harmful, and it simply wasn’t working. It was collectivism. It was socialism. It wasn’t working. That first winner had taken plenty of lives. The manpower was vastly decreased. So William Bradford determined to take daring motion, which I’ll describe after we get again.
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RUSH: William Bradford, the governor of the Pilgrim group, noticed that none of this was working. The Mayflower Compact was not working. Giving all people a single share of inventory within the widespread retailer, within the widespread financial institution was not working. Collectivism. It was as expensive and harmful to the Pilgrims as it’s and has been to anyone who has ever tried it.
So Bradford determined to wash it. He threw it out and took daring motion. He assigned a plot of land to every household. Each household was given a plot of land. They might work it, handle it nonetheless they wished to. If they simply wished to sit down on it, get fats, dumb, comfortable, and lazy, they may. In the event that they wished to develop it, in the event that they wished to develop corn, no matter on it, they may. In the event that they wished to construct on it, they may do this. In the event that they wished to show it right into a quasi-business, they may do no matter they wished to do with it.
He turned free the facility of the capitalist market. Lengthy earlier than Karl Marx was even born. Lengthy earlier than Karl Marx was a sperm cell in his father’s goals, the Pilgrims had found and experimented with what might solely be described as socialism, they usually discovered that it didn’t work. Now, it wasn’t known as that then. However that’s precisely what it was. All people was given an equal share. You already know what occurred? No one did something. There was no incentive. Nothing labored. Nothing occurred.
“What Bradford and his group discovered was that probably the most artistic and industrious folks had no incentive to work any more durable than anybody else, until they may make the most of the facility of non-public motivation! However whereas a lot of the remainder of the world has been experimenting with socialism for properly over 100 years — making an attempt to refine it, excellent it, and re-invent it — the Pilgrims determined early on to scrap it completely. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment must be in each schoolchild’s historical past lesson. If it have been, we’d stop a lot useless struggling,” if the true story of Thanksgiving had been taught for years and years and years.
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RUSH: So, William Bradford, after placing all people in a standard retailer, the Mayflower Compact… They wished to be honest. They wished all people to have one widespread share of inventory in every part that occurred that the Pilgrims produced — and it bombed. It didn’t work.
There was no prosperity; there was no creativity as a result of there was no incentive. Right here’s what Bradford wrote concerning the failure: “‘For this group [so far as it was] was discovered to breed a lot confusion and discontent…’” They weren’t comfortable, in different phrases. “‘[T]his group was discovered to breed a lot confusion and discontent and retard a lot employment that may have been to their profit and luxury.’”
In different phrases, no one labored.
The way in which they set it up, killed and discouraged work.
There was no want.
“‘For younger males that have been most ready and match for labor and repair’” sat round and did nothing. “‘[T]hey ought to spend their time and energy to work for different males’s wives and youngsters with out’” being paid for it? Why ought to they do this? So, they didn’t. “‘[T]hat was thought injustice.’ Why must you work for different folks when you may’t work for your self? What’s the purpose? Do you hear what he was saying, girls and gents?
“The Pilgrims discovered that individuals couldn’t be anticipated to do their greatest work with out incentive. So, what did Bradford’s group attempt subsequent? They unharnessed the facility of excellent previous free enterprise by invoking” capitalism, “the precept of personal property,” all the way in which again within the 1600s. It was unimaginable. “Each household was assigned its personal plot of land,” they usually might do with it no matter they wished to do.
“‘This had excellent success,’ wrote Bradford, ‘for it made all arms industrious, in order far more corn was planted than in any other case would have been.’” So when revenue was launched, when the chance to prosper was launched, it went gangbusters. That, my buddies, is the essence of the True Story of Thanksgiving. “Now, that is the place it will get actually good, people, when you’re laboring underneath the misunderstanding that I used to be, as I used to be taught at school.
“So that they arrange buying and selling posts and exchanged items with the Indians” after that they had loved this prosperity. It was not the Indians that introduced them to prosperity. It’s not stated to insult anyone. The Indians assisted of their arrival undeniably. However what led to prosperity for these unique settlers was the widespread retailer failed. Socialism didn’t work.
It’s after they launched what seems to be capitalism. They didn’t have the title for it, however after they turned free particular person incentive — preserve what you produce, promote what you don’t want — it went loopy. This isn’t one thing they have been taught by anyone by self-experience. It was not the Indians. None of that is stated to place anyone down. Don’t misunderstand.
The Indians did plenty of issues that helped them, which I’ll get to in only a second, nevertheless it was their very own industriousness. “[T]hey arrange buying and selling posts and exchanged items with the Indians.” They bought stuff to them, and people “income allowed them to repay their money owed to the retailers,” their sponsors in London and in Holland, and you recognize what?
The success of that colony after that they had deserted socialism and tried what was basically capitalism, the phrase unfold all through the Outdated World of this huge quantity of prosperity that was there for the taking within the New World. And guess what occurred? The New World was flooded with new arrivals. “[T]he success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted extra Europeans and started what got here to be referred to as the ‘Nice Puritan Migration.’”
And all it took was prosperity and the phrase spreading throughout the Atlantic Ocean of how there was prosperity and it was there for the taking. All you needed to do was get there and provides it a shot. The lesson is — The True Story of Thanksgiving is — that William Bradford and his Pilgrim group have been thanking God for the blessings on their group after the primary depressing winter of a documented failure introduced on by their try at equity and equality, which was socialism.
It didn’t work.
Solely after they deserted it did it work — and I have to say it once more, as a result of I don’t need folks to misconceive and get noses out of joint. The Native Individuals, the indigenous folks, the Injuns, no matter you wish to name ’em, they have been of appreciable help, they usually have been pleasant when the Pilgrims arrived. However that they had little, if something, to do with the prosperity that occurred.
As a result of that was the results of Bradford and the Pilgrim management deciding to vary their construction, the Mayflower Compact. Now, Indians assisted, naturally. I can’t deny it. I imply, they taught them methods to fish and this sort of factor that they didn’t know methods to do, and that led them to be productive, undeniably so. However it was the Pilgrim group itself which skilled this huge prosperity.
The phrase of which unfold all the way in which again to the Outdated World, Europe throughout the Atlantic Ocean.
Now, I discussed earlier that The Federalist has a narrative on all this, and in it they describe a lot of what we did within the second ebook that handled this, the kids’s ebook, Rush Revere and the Courageous Pilgrims. That ebook goes into nice element about how the Indians did present help and how much help it was, how helpful it was and the way essential it was.
In Rush Revere and the Courageous Pilgrims, we deal with a Native American by the title of Squanto. Now, as I advised you, “Throughout the winter of 1620, solely 44 out of the unique 102 [Pilgrims] survived, together with their first elected governor of the colony, John Carver,” and it was “an Indian named Squanto got here to their rescue.” As I say, that is, as I say, explored in nice element in Rush Revere and the Courageous Pilgrims.
“Squanto was no bizarre native. Early settlers in 1610 had captured him and bought him into slavery. A gaggle of Catholic friars freed him and introduced him to England, the place he realized to talk English. In 1618, serving as an interpreter on an English ship, he was introduced again to the New World.” It was Squanto — who’s a well-known Native American in his personal proper within the Pilgrim story. it was Squanto who “taught the Pilgrims methods to plant and fish,” methods to pores and skin beavers. It was Squanto who “dealer[ed] a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and different Indian tribes.”
There was multiple tribe of Indians. It was not copacetic. It was not pleasant and at one with nature. It was not something just like the multiculturalists would have you ever consider. There have been squabbles; there have been energy struggles; turf battles. It was human. The Indians, the Pilgrims, all people was scrambling for energy, for survival. Survivability was the secret. And it was not assured.
Now, most of the Pilgrims actually believed that God had despatched Squanto to avoid wasting them. They usually believed, the Pilgrims believed, that with out Squanto they by no means would have survived, or thrived. They usually skilled an amazing harvest in 1621, and that’s the large gathering that’s taught within the historical past books, the native Indians and the Pilgrims joined collectively for an enormous feast, which is the foundational story of the Thanksgiving story that’s taught in public faculties.
However, once more, that’s not The Actual Story of Thanksgiving. That’s the textbook model. It did occur, nevertheless it’s a lot greater than that. And I really like taking the chance yearly to elucidate the reality of, particularly now given this election’s apparently, allegedly fallen out. As a result of even at The Federalist — that is so nice that the story is spreading. “Probably the most necessary legacies of early settlers is that they experimented with socialism within the 1620s, and it didn’t work. Non-public property rights and private accountability, two pillars of a free market financial system, saved the Plymouth colony from extinction and laid the financial basis for a free and affluent nation that all of us take pleasure in at present.”
And that’s precisely proper. And that’s The True Story of Thanksgiving. And that has been what ought to have been shared with you each Thanksgiving for the previous 31 years.
