Posted on 01/23/2017 2:16:12 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH:Let me ask you, if the crowds…? This is not the case, but if the crowds for Trump’s inauguration were among the smallest, what does it matter? What does it matter? It matters not a whit to Trump’s agenda. It doesn’t change the fact that he won the election at all. What it does is present the media with a bunch of narrative opportunities to carry forward the lie that a small crowd equals “the Russians stole the election.”
A small crowd equals “there never really has been that much enthusiasm for Trump.” They ignored Trump’s crowds at his rallies throughout by saying, “They don’t matter.” You know, Trump would fill the arena, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, 25,000 people. He’d fill the arena! It was overflowing, standing room outside. The media would say, “It doesn’t mean anything! You can’t look at crowd size and have it mean anything about votes.” They routinely told us this as they wanted to ignore the fact that Trump filled arenas and Hillary couldn’t fill gymnasiums. Crowd size didn’t matter.
Now all of a sudden, crowd size is everything — inauguration crowd size. Never mind the fact that Washington, D.C., and the surrounding environs voted Hillary 70%. People who wanted go to the Trump inauguration had to come in from way far away and nevertheless did. But the media was lying and faking side by side photos. They would take a picture of a Trump inauguration three hours early, and they would show some areas that were never gonna be populated with crowd. They were security areas.
They would show them as empty, and then put that side by side with an Obama inauguration from 2009 at the moment he was sworn in and they would try to say, “See! See!” The point is, “Nobody cares about Trump! This is all a joke. This shouldn’t have happened. Trump’s illegitimate!” That’s all it means. It’s not gonna change one thing. Now, here’s the question for you. Trump fights back on all of it. He pushes back on what he thinks are lies they are telling about crowd size, lies about TV audience for his inauguration, lies on everything.
Does it make you nervous or not? Do you wish he would ignore it? Do some of you think, “I wish he would be above this — some of it ignore; some of it hit back”? He hits back on all of it. Does it bother you? I’m asking those of you who voted for Trump. Does it bother you that he hits back? Do you wish he’d forget it and move on, or do you like it? But it doesn’t matter. This is… The media is picking things that don’t matter to the substance of anything. They’re trying to use symbolism over substance.
They’re trying to take advantage here of pictures — lying pictures that they can create — and then assign meaning to them. Folks, it is all oriented toward making you doubt what happened if you’re Trump supporter. It’s designed to make you think, “Maybe this is illegitimate. Maybe there isn’t that much enthusiasm for Trump,” and then that is supposed to make you less devoted to Trump because… Here is an important point and this does matter. Peggy Noonan made the point in her column. You know, Peggy’s always upset. Peggy’s always wringing her hands about things.
She made an observation but it’s right. You go back and you look at Obama when he’s inaugurated in 2009. He’s got a lot of people on his side. He had the media. He had the media big on his side and the whole the Democrat Party on his side. He had a lot of people backing him up. He had a lot of people pushing him forward and validating. Trump has no one except the people that voted for him. Trump has no one in Washington. He’s got his advisers. He’s got some Republicans. But the entire Washington establishment is opposed to him. The media is trying to undermine him.
The Democrat Party’s trying to undermine him as they set up what will no doubt be impeachment proceedings when they think it’s time to do it. That will happen. Trump has nothing but the people that voted for him, and if the media can soften some of their verve — if the media can succeed in separating some Trump supporters from him — then their theory is he will be weakened even further and exposed even more as fraudulently and illegitimately elected and illegitimately serving. And it is a big point. You know this the minute I mentioned this to you.
When I say, “Obama had the media behind him,” you know how much that was worth. You know Bush didn’t have the media behind him. He had his party behind him, and he had the people that voted for him, and look what they were able to do. They were able to drive Bush’s approval numbers… It took ’em five years, maybe seven or six years, but they got Bush’s approval numbers down to the high thirties. A constant, daily drumbeat of negativism and assaults, and it finally worked. That’s what they’re trying here. This election is not over. This election is not cemented. It is not validated.
It isn’t real, because Trump is illegitimate, and the only thing Trump has — and it’s important, it’s the most important — the only thing he’s got are his supporters. And therefore his supporters have got to stay as energetic and as front and center and as supportive as they were during the campaign. That’s all he’s got. He’s got the power, he is the president, don’t misunderstand, but in this PR battle, in the image battle, in the buzz battle, in the narrative battle, he doesn’t have anybody.
Well, I take that back. Look, he’s got this program for the most part, and he’s got enough people at Fox News. And he’s got some magazine, but he doesn’t have the so-called mainstream media. So it is really important that the people that voted for him maintain their support and be publicly willing to demonstrate it. If Trump does a rally, a personal appearance, show up. ‘Cause now they’re looking at crowd size.
Now all of a sudden they’re paying attention to crowd size? Well, jam it down their throats. This is what it’s gonna take. And my guess is that Trump’s supporters are up for this. My guess is that you in this audience who supported Trump say, “Bring it on, I’m in,” as long as Trump does what he said he’s gonna do, and so far no doubt. I mean the message so far from just two or three days of Trump, “I meant it.” Things that he said he was gonna do, he’s doing ’em.
He started at 150 miles an hour. Freezing federal hire — that’s a big deal, by the way, ’cause I mentioned to you on Friday about the unelected bureaucracy that just grows and grows and grows and how bureaucracies do not want to solve problems because that means eliminating themselves and that they’ll never do.
State Department really never wants to stop anything, Jesse Jackson, the civil rights, they never want racism to end, they’d be out of jobs, they’d be out of work, be out of a purpose for living if racism officially ended. So they would never proclaim it or agree with anybody who did proclaim it. It’s always gonna be getting worse so they can stay in business and fundraise.
Well, the bureaucracy’s much the same way. The bureaucracy’s made up of a bunch people that have never been elected and you can’t get rid of them with an election unless you do what Trump’s doing, freeze federal hiring and then announce a plan to get rid of a certain percentage of the federal workforce. If he does that and if he’s able to cut some spending while doing some other things, that might sound like magic tricks but if he’s able to do some of this stuff his supporters are gonna stay with him regardless. But they are all he has.
“Revenge of the Bureaucrats,” here in Politico, “Federal workers fume over Trump’s vows to freeze hiring and shrink the government. … As one of his first acts Monday, Trump signed an executive order freezing most federal hiring.” He’s done that. “His team is also fine-tuning plans to shrink several agencies focused on domestic policy, according to sources close to the transition.” He’s on the way to doing that. “Now, the president is about to find out how much power these maligned workers have to slow or even short-circuit his agenda,” and they do have some.
They’re invisible, they’re nameless, they can undermine all kinds — they can demand investigations by the inspector general in their various departments, and most of these people are the same kind of people that were on the feminazi march. Most of them are deranged, unhinged leftists whose career objectives have been to become lifetime bureaucrats in Washington. These are the people that issue thousands of regulations every year from the EPA, the FDA, that don’t have to go through Congress, that aren’t subject to presidential signature or any of that. They just do it.
These are some of the things Trump is focusing on, and these people are not gonna sit back and take it. That’s what The Politico story is all about. They make the point that disgruntled employees in the bureaucracy can leak information to Capitol Hill and the media. They can prod inspectors general to probe political appointees. They can use the tools of bureaucracy to slow or sandbag policy proposals. And they do. Conversely, if there’s somebody in office they like, like Obama, they can speed it up and grease skids.
This is not going to be easy is the point. And Trump is gonna need every one of his supporters — well, let’s bring it closer. He’s gonna need every one of his cabinet appointees to be all-in. He’s gonna need Priebus and Bannon and Conway, Spicer and all of these other people, Jared Kushner, whoever is in his inner circle, they are going to have to be with him a hundred percent of the time, all the time, every time, because he doesn’t have anybody else. Well, no, no, no, no, no. He’s not crying over spilt milk. No, no, no. I’m not trying to engender sympathy. I’m just giving you the lay of the land.
This is warfare. The left looks at it as warfare. They always have. There is no compromise, not on core principles. There is no bipartisan. All those objectives are tricks.
All right. Trump and the CIA. That’s another story that is being, I think, totally misreported. Let me take a wild guess. If you have heard about Trump’s visit to the CIA, my guess is that you have heard Trump made a fool of himself, he ended up going off the rails and talking only about himself and saying some really odd things about how his dad knew some intelligence people so he has a great respect for intelligence people. You probably have heard that Trump at the CIA was an embarrassment and that the intelligence community is more scared than ever.
That’s not what happened. What happened is actually kind of important. Trump went to the CIA to tell them he supports them. You know, the CIA is made up just like the Pentagon is, of generals. We have warrior generals who really want to win the war, they want to win the battle, they want to take on the enemy and skunk ’em. And we have the political generals. And these are the people dominated by political correctness and climbing the ladder of success by making sure your superior gets what he wants no matter what happens. It’s basically brownnosing, kiss-assery, whatever you want to call it, you have those kind.
The CIA, same thing. You’ve got the genuine articles in there who are working silently, deftly, to save America, to save American lives. And then you have the politically correct political maneuverers in there like Brennan, the current CIA head, who loathes Trump, who despises Trump, who hates Trump, he’s the current the CIA director, Obama’s guy. Guy used to support communists. I mean, the CIA’s got a lot of people working for ’em who believe the United States is the problem in the world. The State Department, same thing.
So Trump went over to not mend fences but, you know, tell them face-to-face what he thinks of their work and how he appreciates it rather than have them guided by the fake news that’s been reported and there’s fake news coming out of Trump’s visit to the CIA today too.
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We need to stand up for trump who is standing up for us, but Trump as more than that just like he had during the campaign.
God brought Trump to power and God will surround him with favor as a shield.
It shouldn’t matter to anyone, Trump included. He should’ve attacked the media based upon the pettiness and irrelevance of the crowed issue that they instigated instead of trying to dispute the actual size of the crowd.
I’m wondering should push come to shove if the Trump supporters would move on Washington in order to fight the system, protest wise.
About ready to turn Rush off for a spell—He’s been an incredible downer since he got back from vacation.
We know the media lies.
He doesn’t have to tell us, and fret over it, every day.
I don’t know about ‘Joe Citizen’ but I can tell you the ‘Trump for Bikers’ will and they will wipe the streets up with anyone who gets out of line to harm President Trump...
You noticed there wasn’t any articles by the ‘fake news’ how bad these ‘Biker Dudes’ were, because even Chuck Frog has sense enough not to poke a ‘viper’...
Rush is right. We need to counter at every opportunity. We have the numbers. Let’s not slack.
I’m currently in Colombia..but count on me to catch a plane home.
Let’s not slack but let’s do what we do in faith knowing that God is with us and with Trump.
All Bikers for Trump did was float a giant air biscuit and makes themselves to to look like a bunch of all-talk-no-action fools.
Maybe they need better leadership.
I have talked to a couple of my friends that have returned and they said they have never seen such insane people, most of the ‘demonstrators’ were not from the area, they were bussed in...
Rush has always claimed he never endorses a candidate early in the process but, I guess, he made an exception with his fullthroated defense of Rubio.
A hearty Amen!!
Even Jesus needed apostles. Rush is right.
Context and nuance are your friend.
You’re missing my point.
Jesus never said to his disciples, “I only have you to defend me.”
Rush tends to get off the track.
Jim, it’s about creating an army of like-minded individuals to spread your word and the truth.
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