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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.

Yes, America's Anchorman is away.

You know why that is?

He's having some treatment today, and the way it's gone the last few weeks, the treatment goes well,

but he wakes up the morning after feeling totally clobbered by the thing.

So we do hope to have Rush back before the end of the week, before the glorious fourth,

because no one does unabashed, full-throated love of country the way Rush does, and it would be

terrific to have him here before the week is out to set up your Independence Day weekend just perfectly.

But we are here at the start of another month of excellence in broadcasting.

July the 1st, July the 1st, 23 years ago today, the crown colony of Hong Kong

became a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China. and it is no accident that on this anniversary,

China has passed in defiance of its treaty obligations.

China has passed an illegal law affecting the people of Hong Kong, and just to show that they're

taking this new illegal law

seriously, they rounded up 200 people yesterday. July the 1st is also the day, this very day,

that the USMCA, the replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement, the USMCA, United States, Mexico, Canada

agreement comes into effect. That would normally be a big deal and would be regarded as a fairly

spectacular accomplishment, if you recall the way the introduction of NAFTA was treated, but it's passed almost without notice because all the

papers are full of stories about how Trump is depressed, Trump is thinking of quitting before the

election, Trump regrets following the advice of his son-in-law Jared Kushner.

So there's all kinds of palace gossip taking the place of what would otherwise be a signature achievement.

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