Posted on 12/22/2017 3:32:01 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Merry Christmas, everybody, and happy holidays to one and all from all of us here at the EIB Network. Im Rush Limbaugh, and this is one of my most favorite times of the year, and I would not rather be anywhere today than right here, right where I am. I know many of you are out and about engaging in hustle and bustle, trying to take care of last-minute requirements, demands, desires. Many of you are traveling, trying to get where youre going. Whatever youre doing, stick with us for the next three hours, and it will be more enjoyable than you imagined.
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So the president signed the tax bill today, and CNNs very upset. CNNs upset that the president was happy. CNN did a panel discussion after the president signed the tax law, and they observed, You know what? This is the first day weve ever seen this guy have any joy in the job, and you could tell they were not happy about that. They were very uneasy. The worst thing in the world is if Trump starts to like this in their view, and they said, Look at how expansive the guy was!
He sat there and talked to the media for 20 minutes during the signing ceremony, and he did it all off the cuff. He answered every question, snarky and otherwise. After he ended it, he did three encores! He tried to get out of there; the Drive-By Media wouldnt let him. Then he took the helicopter out to Joint Base Andrews to get on Air Force One to come down here where the action is after the holidays. And he stops on the way, gets out of the helicopter, and walks over to greet military personnel standing on the other side of a fence.
He took the opposite direction he would need to have taken to get on Air Force One. He went over and thanked a bunch of people, and CNN says, Look at this! Look at this. Hes enjoying this. Ive never seen him this joyous. Ive never seen him this happy. And, you know, theres a contrast here, folks. I had a story today, saw a story today that was published by our old buddies at NewsBusters: Jorge Ramos Says Hes Now Having the Worst Time of His Life in U.S. Jorge Ramos miserable, unhappy!
Nearly a year into the Trump presidency, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos says hes experiencing the worst moment Ive had in the 34 years Ive been living in the United States. With Donald Trump there, I have never been treated so badly. I have never been insulted so much. Weve never been attacked so much. They have never tried to run us out as much as now, Ramos vented in an interview with the Spanish radio network Cadena SER.
Ramos, who proclaimed himself if not an enemy, an opponent of Trump in the interview, complained about the massive blowback he has received since deciding to use his media platforms to openly oppose Trump in the presidential campaign and in Trumps first year in office. Now the social media networks are terrible Before if someone wanted to insult you, they had to do it in person or by sending you an anonymous letter. Now they do it through the social media networks and the daily insults you can enter my Facebook or Twitter and they are there all the time, lamented Ramos.
Aw, poor Jorge!
Poor Jorge is finding out what its like to be a conservative in the United States of America. Poor Jorge! It got me to thinking. You know, during this time of year Im naturally joyous and upbeat. Well, look, I dont want anybody getting the wrong idea. Not all the time. Im not superhuman; do not misunderstand. But on balance, Im up during this time of year, and most of the times of the year. But it got me to thinking just how many people in the country today are in fact miserable because of the successful year that Trump had.
And Trumps successful year means great things for the country. Make no mistake about it. Trump having a widely successful, way-beyond-expectations first year is phenomenal for the country. Details, examples coming up. Just setting the table here. John Brennan is one of these angry guys. Hes the former CIA director for Obama, and he tweeted something out about Trumps behavior at the United Nations Nikki Haley, actually. Hes very upset. He thinks this is the example of a madman, of a tyrant.
President Trump signs GOP tax bill
This kind of stuff is simply unacceptable in a free country like the United States. He is fit to be tied. Im looking for the actual tweet. Heres Brennans tweet: Trump Admin threat to retaliate against nations that exercise sovereign right in U.N. to oppose U.S. position on Jerusalem is beyond outrageous. Shows @realDonaldTrump expects blind loyalty and subservience from everyone qualities usually found in narcissistic, vengeful autocrats.
Now, lets parse this for just a second. The irony here and the contradictions are mind-boggling. But the most important thing this illustrates is that here is a guy who is the former director of the CIA of the United States, and he has a problem with Americans looking out for Americans first. He has a problem with America standing up for America. He has a problem with America as the undeniable superpower of the world. He has a deep-rooted problem and this guy ran the CIA! Now, what kind of horrors were these people engaging in?
If they dont believe their country is great, if they dont believe that their countrys national interests should be the predominant thing in global relations, then what the hell did they do when they were there? And scarily, we know. They were trying to transform the United States. They were trying to cut the United States down to size. And Brennan has, whether he knows it or not, inadvertently admitted it here. A threat to retaliate against nations that exercise a sovereign right? Nobody told them they dont have the right to vote the way they wanted to vote.
All Nikki Haley did was say: Were gonna take names. You want foreign aid from us and youre out there criticizing us and undermining us? You better think again. Were gonna be taking names. (Somehow, that is insulting? That is beneath the dignity of the United States.) What are we supposed to, Mr. Brennan, just sit there, bend over, grab the ankles, and let em have their way with us? What are we supposed to do? What did we do when you were running the show? Vengeful autocrats. Thats how we would describe Obama. Vengeful. Angry.
Trump isnt angry. Even CNN admitted it today. Trump is joyous and happy. But, anyway, I got to thinking. If Jorge Ramos says hes now having the worst time in his life in the United States, could we not say that that must mean that Trump is kicking butt? Does that not mean that things are really going great for the United States and the Trump agenda and this is why Jorge is in such a foul humor? And theyve been in a foul humor ever since election night when they lost, when Hillary lost and Trump won, and they hadnt been able to get out of the funk.
And they have been living just like I told you. They have been living in intense rage and hatred. So when I saw this from Jorge Ramos, I began thinking of a lot of other people who are not gonna have a great Christmas. Now, normally when we ponder this, we ponder the less fortunate. We ponder the thirsty, the hungry, the homeless, the downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the forgotten, the ignored, the made-fun-of. You know, that group of people.
But thats not who it is this year. Think of all the people who are joined at the hip in misery with Jorge Ramos. How about the people who work at ESPN? Many of whom have lost their jobs. Now theyve lost their CEO. Now theres real talk of downsizing. How about all the people invested in the National Football League? What a horrible year the NFL has had, on balance and in comparison. How about all the people who lost jobs within the government? This is one of the great secrets, by the way, folks.
Its one of the many untold and unwritten stories of the first year of the Trump administration. Ive got a headline here that will illustrate it: Hundreds of EPA Employees Have Quit Under Trump Over 700 employees at the Environmental Protection Agency have quit or taken early retirement during the Trump administration so far, bringing the EPA close to employment levels not seen since [Ronaldus Magnus]. Thats since the 1980s. Now, this story is actually from a week ago, and we mentioned it a week ago, but what is happening, one of the great
Its been reported on. It hasnt been highlighted. But one of the great things thats been happening all year in the Trump administration is the elimination of tens of thousands of burdensome regulations. The downsizing of various federal agencies. Its not just the EPA. There are a number of these bureaucracies where Trump said he was gonna drain the swamp and clean em out, and hes doing it. Hes doing it mostly by attrition.
Mostly these are career leftists who are like Jorge Ramos and theyre miserable and theyre unhappy, and they have found that they cant overcome it. Even hiding as members of the deep state, they cant overcome the obstacles a Trump presidency presents. So theyre quitting. Theyre quitting. Theyre lost. They dont want to be around the winners. In addition to Trump getting rid of personnel, the numbers of regulations Have you wondered why the economy ? Let me ask you a question. The tax cut was just signed into law today.
The tax cut has always been something on the come. The tax cut has always been something that was gonna happen. We hope its gonna happen. Its supposedly gonna happen. They promised us it was gonna happen. And weve been told that the stock market and the economy is roaring, in part, on the assumption the tax cut is actually gonna happen and become law. But that doesnt explain all of it, does it? How can that explain this robust consumer confidence? How can it explain robust consumer and corporate investment?
How can it explain robust consumer confidence? How can it explain all the new manufacturing jobs? The tax cut bill may be coming. That doesnt explain it. What does and it is something that we have highlighted from time to time here is Trump, at the various cabinet level bureaucracies, is literally erasing mountains of regulation, federal regulation installed by unelected bureaucrats who have to answer to nobody. They can write regulations. Fish and Wildfire, EPA, the Food and Drug Administration, the Small Business Administration.
Any number of these bureaucracies can write regulations and with Obama, this is primarily how he implemented his agenda. Obama didnt pass a lot of legislation, either, contrary to what they want you believe about Trump. (impression) He hasnt marshaled his forces! He doesnt know what hes doing. He doesnt know how to use Washington. Neither did Obama. Obama didnt wait around for legislation. Much of what Obama did was via executive action and executive order, and Trump is unwinding all of that and not stopping at Obama and theyre not finished.
Theyre gonna be doing this, the Trump administration, for as long as theyre in office. Theyre gonna be eliminating regulations, wiping them out. Theyre gonna be getting rid of all the burdensome ones they can. That, my friends, is part of the discussion as to why the economy is roaring. I dont want to say too much about it because this is actually a stealth project. Theyve kind of snuck this one by the Drive-Bys and the Democrats. Oh, they know that regulations are coming under the knife, but they dont know the extensive nature of it.
Because Trumps not bragging about it. I mean, he mentions it now and then, but always as an afterthought. But Im telling you: Its one of the top-three agenda items in this administration and its something that theyre doing each and every day and theyre, for the most part, doing it stealthily. Theyre not holding giant press conferences, celebratory meetings at the White House when they cancel every 10,000 regulations. Theyre just doing it. But as these regulations get cut, they have real-world impact. What is a federal regulation but a barrier?
A federal regulation is a roadblock.
A federal regulation, state regulation, any government regulation is an impediment.
Were getting the roadblocks out of the way. Were taking the impediments out of the way. People want to do business certain types of business are finding out there are fewer roadblocks. People are more comfortable investing and growing in all aspects of the economy. And this is one of the central reasons why the economy has been growing by leaps and bounds even before the tax cut bill was signed into law today. Im not gonna say any more about that, because I dont want You know, the left listens here, folks. The left thinks the White House takes their cues from this program. I got audio sound bite evidence of it again today.
They think talk radio is actually providing the intellectual energy for much of the Trump agenda, which is mind-boggling, but Im not gonna try to disabuse them of it. But Im not gonna say any more, because this regulation erasure is happening at a rapid rate. Its not publicized not ballyhooed, if you will and it is deeply substantive. It matters a lot. This is another reason why so many bureaucrats are quitting. With the elimination of regulations, you can say good-bye to their power, good-bye to their ideological reason for being there.
So on balance, its all good.
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RUSH: How about some of the other people that are miserable this holiday season? And, by the way, its their fault. There are ways out of this for them, but theyre so tied into all of this. How about all of the men whose lives and careers have been torpedo by the #MeToo movement, all of these allegations of sexual harassment, true and untrue? You think thats a happy bunch of people? How about all the leftist women and their vagina hats still miserable that Hillary lost. Theyre still miserable, still living with their cats, still living with their dogs.
And theyve even got it worse because they keep telling themselves how bad it is. They make up things that have gone wrong. I mean, theyre living in total misery. So is Mrs. Clinton. And how would you like to be Bill Clinton with now everybody in your former friendship group turning on you and calling you a pervert, too? All the Drive-Bys. Think of the Drive-By Media. The Drive-By Media has to be under the influence leading groups of unhappy people. They have thrown everything theyve got!
They have thrown journalistic principle and standards overboard because they thought they had an emergency. They threw the kitchen sink. They did everything including violate every rule and every tenet of journalism theyve been taught, for one reason: To destroy Donald Trump. And as the year ends, Donald Trump is ascending and is joyful and appears happy, which is always the best revenge, folks. Success, happiness are always the best revenge. The Drive-Bys are fuming. Theyre irritable. Theyre angry.
They are frustrated that they dont seem to have the power to be able to ruin Donald Trump or anybody in his family. Meanwhile, it is members of the Drive-By Media falling by the wayside in the sexual harassment scandals. How about all the Obama and Clinton people and their FBI buddies sweating investigations by Congress? And dont doubt for a moment they exist. All the people who spiraled out of control after trashing Trump and Trump voters: Kathy Griffin, Rosie ODonnell, Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep. Hollywood! Its misery, unhappiness, despair, at Christmastime.
I consider myself very, very, very lucky that Trump had a good first year. It was a year where SWJs could have shaped our lives for decades to come.
YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! Woo Hoo! Thank you Mr. President and Congress! WINNING! Please can I have more winning? Really would like a YUGE wall on our southern border! Would really appreciate the RAISE ACT as Stephen Miller outlined! Please! That would be the greatest!
Profound appreciation......
Almost one down, seven great ones to come.
Liberals believe that the biggest problems in the US are is that there is too much freedom and not enough government control.
“...Liberals believe that the biggest problems in the US are is that there is too much freedom and not enough government control....”
Yeah, well, they’re evil, vile and totally insane and prove it every single day. They should NEVER ever be allowed near the “levers of power” of any government, especially ours. They should be considered enemy combatants and run out of the country on a rail. GITMO comes to mind.
Trump has had a fabulous first year, especially considering all the opposition this man has faced in the congress, media, etc. The constant ridicule alone would destroy most folks. This guy just lets it roll off and keeps on trucking. I’ve been a supporter since the day he announced his candidacy and proud to call him my President. Roll on Pres. Trump....ya got em where ya want em.... :)
Remember Al Gore’s campaign slogan, “the people versus the powerful”? Trump is finally making it come true. Gore’s slogan was just Orwellian newspeak. It was never supposed to actually happen.
Pres. Trump really is the right man in the right place at the right time. He remains focused on the agenda he promised during the campaign and he remains positive in spite of attacks from the MSM that dwarf anything I’ve witnessed in my lifetime. He’s positive about himself and the country and he fights hard for us. What more could one ask of a President?
I agree with everything you said.
Trump Ends Successful First Year and the Haters Are Miserable!, ... GOOD!!!!!!!
Dear Stuart,
Well well well.. Its been a year and the world has not come to an end! In fact, its pretty damn good from where Im sitting. Lets see, ISIS decimated, economy booming, tax cuts happening, companies reinvesting, people getting bonuses and JERUSALEM THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL. (I wont dig in the fact we got our Conservative Supreme Court Judge and a record number of federal judges.) Three agencies, unfettered access, millions of dollars and still no charges against Trump. Besides everyone at MSNBC, nobody thinks Trump colluded with the Russians on anything. However, if I were Hillary and Obama Id be a tad nervous right now. YIKES!
Im writing not just to wish you a Happy New Year but I want tell you how you can pay extra taxes. I know you are probably against the tax cuts, so please send this to your family and friends and tell them not to worry, they dont have to partake in the Republican plan. Its a free Country! just don't send it to the IRS. There are several ways for charitable patriots to augment their support for the federal government, but sending a little extra something with their tax payment isn't one of them. When the IRS receives checks for more than an individual owes, it simply refunds the money. The agency recommends that you send your donation to the Treasury's Bureau of the Public Debt. Your money will go into a special account to redeem outstanding government notes, bills, and bonds. Since 1996, Americans have donated about $26 million to reducing federal indebtedness, which represents 0.00018 percent of the current national debt. By the way, there's no need to wait for tax time; the Treasury accepts contributions year-round.
Cheers!
Hildy
Would be interesting to see the reply.
BTW, whens the I-11 highway to begin around here? They still fighting about the go around at the intersection of 93 and 40?
You no doubt have been stuck up on the hill at the coyote pass? Unreal.
I did omit SWJs could have ruined our lives for decades to come had it not been for a successful first year for Trump. I remember those racists not wanting any minorities at all associating with Trump. They tried to lower the bar so that anything Trump did he was racist. Then Trump turned the tables on the Leftists and exposed them for their hypocrisy.
To use a NASCAR reference:
IMO, Trump’s first year equals the practice laps & the qualifying.
The real race starts in 2018.
The run to the championship lasts 4 years total, with the ability to REPEAT as champion in the next 4 years......
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