Posted on 01/13/2017 2:01:57 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Hey, hey, calm down out there, folks. Everythings cool, everythings fine, no need to panic. The Drive-Bys are in panic. You gotta look at em as Wile E. Coyote. Gotta look at Trump and his team as the Road Runner. Wile E. Coyote still has no idea whats happening. Theyre trying to continue to destroy Trump in the age-old ways theyve succeeded. Its all backfiring on em. Im gonna explain this as the program unfolds. Be cool.
JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, its Open Line Friday!
RUSH: Don’t worry about it, Rachel, don’t worry about any of this stuff. Well, I mean, if you want to worry about it, go ahead, but I’m gonna explain it to you. It is fascinating to watch this, folks. I’m having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have watching this stuff go down. I mean, look what’s happening out there.
The media is obsessing. They’re celebrating. They want to pop the cork on the champagne because they claim that Trump’s cabinet picks are running away from him. “As they testify in their confirmation hearings, Trump cabinet picks break with Trump on campaign promises.” And so what they’re trying to say is these guys are undercutting Trump, they’re selling Trump out, they’re proving that Trump lied on the campaign trail.
The media is obsessing. They’re celebrating. They want to pop the cork on the champagne because they claim that Trump’s cabinet picks are running away from him. “As they testify in their confirmation hearings, Trump cabinet picks break with Trump on campaign promises.” And so what they’re trying to say is these guys are undercutting Trump, they’re selling Trump out, they’re proving that Trump lied on the campaign trail.
We cant? You ever heard of Barack Obama? You ever heard of Solyndra? For crying out, cant pick winners and losers, fine and dandy, but where was all this when Obama was doing it? But, anyway, thats not even whats happening. What this was about I gotta dial this down. Im getting too passionate, right, Rachel?
This is about the L.L. Bean thing.
Are you familiar with the L.L. Bean story? Do you know what L.L. Bean is? All right. Theyre a company up in Maine, and they make boots and stuff if youre gonna go jump in the water while you kill birds and alligators. Theyre basically a wildlife outfit, and theyve got the L.L. Bean catalog and all that. Theyre age-old. Theyre as old as the Farmers Almanac. They may be the Farmers Almanac for all anyway, it turned out that a woman, one of the members of the board at L.L. Bean had the audacity to make a campaign contribution to Trump!
Can you believe it? Who does she think she is? And so you know what happened? A bunch of leftist bullies, this pajama-clad bunch of invisible neophytes out on the internet started bullying her and demanding that people stop shopping at L.L. Bean. In other words, they were encouraging a boycott because somebody there had the audacity to donate to Trump.
And so Trump praised her, and Trump thanked her for her support. And everybody said, Trump cant do that, presidents cant do that. You cant pick winners and losers like that. This has nothing to do with picking winners and losers. This is defending somebody who supported him against an all-out bullying assault that I am intimately aware of and a lot of people are in the way this whole thing works, we have uncovered it. We know who these people are.
Theyre about 10 people and they make themselves out via algorithms to look like they are thousands of people, and they end up writing letters to businesses that make it look like theyre coming from the city the business is located. The whole thing is a scam and we have uncovered it and weve identified the people. And theyre trying this on L.L. Bean now.
So Trump, who is loyal, simply praised her. I think he even did a photo-op with her or something, and it was basically fighting back against a typical leftist. If it were up to me these people would be gone after in court for violation of tortious or tortious interference or whatever. These are anti-capitalist, invisible bullies out there demanding that every other sniveling little leftist join their stupid little boycotts.
Fine and dandy, freedom of speech, do what you want, but to say that we cant fight back, to say that fighting back is picking winners and losers. Trumps not picking L.L. Bean over anybody else. Hes simply fighting back, which is what we have been missing for the last eight years. And you can see how much the left hates it.
You can even see how much establishment Republicans hate it, cause they were joining this refrain that Trump cant pick winners and losers. We cant do that. This is unseemly. Hes got to stop tweeting. Presidents cant tweet like this. Presidents cant do this. This is beneath the dignity of the office. You people, Im telling you, you still do not understand what youre up against here.
You know what? Let me ask you a question, Rachel. Would you be upset if Trump painted the Trump logo on the tail of Air Force One? You wouldnt be bothered? What if Trump tried to rename the capitol building the Donald J. Trump United States Capitol, would that bother you? The Donald J. Trump Senate Chamber. (laughing) I tell you, we cant pick winners and losers.
And then all over the internet on liberal websites theres another theme out there today based on Trumps press conference where he called CNN fake news and refused to call on Jim Acosta. Theres a unified assault on Trump from the left wing of the internet, and it goes like this.
There are norms in society. Theres civil rights in society. There are norms and procedures and protocols, and they exist because we have years and years and years and years of experience in proper human behavior and how to behave blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And Trump is simply assaulting all of this, and this is why we must ignore Trump and why we must constantly fight Trump because Trump is upsetting all of the age-old protocols and norms.
Im watching these people lose their lunch over this. Im watching them go crazy. And as they talk about norms and as they talk about protocols and as they talk about tradition and as they talk about all of these age-old civilized ways in which people at positions of power behave, I keep shouting, What about marriage? You people overthrew marriage. You had to see fit to redefine marriage. What about the protocols and the norms and the decency and all of the millennia of years establishing the best way to have a nuclear family, and you guys came along and upset it?
When you guys throw out norms, when you guys throw out protocols, when you guys throw out years and years and years of so-called civilized manner, its apparently fine, and its called progress. When somebody like Trump comes along and doesnt behave toward you the way you think you should be respected and so on, all of a sudden all the building blocks of our civilized culture are falling apart. I just love it, folks. Ill tell you, these people are wits end. Wait til you hear some of the audio sound bites from the Hillary team here.
Im not kidding you. Wait til you hear this. They are still claiming that the election was fraudulent, that the polling was right, and therefore Hillary should be president. And Im not making this up. Robby Mook, the campaign manager, and a spokesman for Hillary are still saying the polls, the preelection polls and the exit polls, thats where the truth of this election was, and the votes didnt match up with the preelection polls and the exit polls and that means the Russians stole the election for Trump and theyre dead serious.
Now, what does all this mean? Well, Im just gonna tell you. What it really all means is that you should prepare yourself for the fact that theyre not gonna stop until they destroy Donald Trump either by way of impeachment they dont have the votes for that. They dont have anywhere near the votes. They cant You know, the way impeachment works, you need two-thirds. The House of Representatives charges and then the House Senate conducts the trial and the vote, and they dont have anywhere near the votes unless they get a bunch of recalcitrant Republicans to go along with em.
Which reminds me of the health care. Thats another thing. The left is in sheer panic over health care. Oh! One other thing. I need to go back to this bus Well, Ill get back to it. The cabinet picks supposedly saying during their confirmation hearings things totally at variance of what Trump promised during the campaign. Ben Carson is a classic example. Theyre up there asking Ben Carson, Are you gonna protect the HUD budget? You better damn well better protect the HUD budget! You know how important the HUD budget is? Are you gonna protect it?
Whats Carson gonna say? No, Senator. You know what I intend? I intend to wipe out this agency! Im secretly here to blow HUD up. If thats the case, do you think he would tell them that? We have an entirely different audience. Trump campaigns to the voters. He says what he says; he believes it. They elected him. Okay, here come hes nominees. Whos the audience? A bunch of establishment politicians that hate Donald Trump, both parties. And so these nominees are up there, So, Dr. Carson, are you prepared to protect the HUD budget?
And Carson says, Not only am I prepared to protect it, I may even find a way to expand it.
Good answer! Good answer! Well vote for you.
Thats all this is. Same thing with Tillerson. Its the same thing with Mattis. What theyre trying to say is that Trump has been betrayed by his own stupidity. What theyre trying to say is that Trumps actual cabinet nominees are exposing Trump for the fraud that he is. Its stupid! It is laughably stupid what theyre glomming onto. They are so desperate for evidence that Trump is dumb, theyre so desperate that evidence that Trump is stupid, theyre so desperate for evidence that all of this has been a quirk of fate and an accident rooted in Trumps stupidity.
They havent got the slightest idea that the guy is running rings around them in terms of strategy, tactics, and intelligence. Its amazing, the hubris and the arrogance of these people. Theyve got their desires, their preconceived wishes and notions. They have their narratives. Trump is an idiot, Trumps a liar, Trump doesnt know what hes doing. And so here come his nominees singing different tunes from what Trump did, and to these guys in the Beltway, the media, this is evidence. This is evidence that not even Trumps nominees like him.
Its incredible. Mattis and Tillerson, theyre telling everybody what an idiot Trump is and how dangerous Trump is! You really think thats whats happening here, you media people? If you need to get the votes of (for all intents and purposes) communist leftists on some of these committees, I mean, what are you gonna do? This is a, Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Three bags full circumstance. I cant be the only one who knows this. I cannot be the only one who knows this, the L.L. Bean thing. What else do we have?
Oh, folks this dossier, this 35-page dossier that contained all of this total BS about Trump hiring prostitutes to do golden showers on the bed where Obama and Michelle (My Belle) had previously slept in Moscow? Remember we had McCain out there (impression), Yeah, I just I saw it. I said, This this is horrible! I I didnt know what to do! (stammering) So I put on my citizen cap and I gave it to the FBI. And so I did, and I backed off. I gave it to the FBI! I said I said, The intelligence people have to see this.' You know what happened?
Heres the short version with details coming up. McCain found out about this while in Canada and flew one of his aides to the U.K. to pick the document up. McCains fingerprints are on this from the get-go. He heard about the document existing from a member of the foreign agency, foreign office in the U.K., and he actually sent an aide of his on a special flight to pick this dossier up and bring it back to the United States. I have details on that coming up.
Would you like to ? Do you know whos gonna whos gonna give the oath of office to Mike Pence? Have you heard that? Clarence Thomas. Supreme Court justice Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. I want to read to you the Reuters account of this. Reuters. Heres the headline: U.S. VP-Elect Pence to Be Oh, did you see that Obama gave Biden a participation medal yesterday? Did you see that? (interruption) With Biden standing there and Obamas announcing the presidential medal of what? Servitude? Whatever it is. I call it participation medal.
So Bidens standing there waiting for Obama to name the next recipient. It turns out to be Biden! Biden grabs his handkerchief, turns around, starts crying, walks back, standing O, accepts it. I bet it wasnt surprise. Anyway, here is the Reuters headline: U.S. VP-Elect Pence to Be Sworn in by Conservative Justice Thomas. You want to hear the first paragraph of the story? Vice-President-Elect Mike Pence will be sworn in to office on January 20th by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative legal icon reviled by many liberals.
You know, we should be used to this crap by now, but it still irritates when you run into it. Thats the Reuters lede in the story that Clarence Thomas will be swearing in Mike Pence on January 20th. Yeah, here, Politico. Trumps Inauguration to Shatter Washington Norms. Im telling you, this is a theme that the left is concocting. Its all over my tech blogs! The tech blog little Millennial leftists out there are all worried about these norms and these protocols and these decades-old manners of civility of just being blown to smithereens by this barbarian Trump. You can practically read the tears as they write about this.
So, folks, thats just setting the table. Thats just a preview of what is to come here to Open Line Friday.
Wonderful show today. For weeks now it’s been a pleasure listening to Rush find out how fantastic our new president is! We tolja, Rush!!!
Happy Days.
I preferred Rush’s old website design. This new design is hard to read. I think it’s a major fail.
“”Biden grabs his handkerchief, turns around, starts crying, walks back, standing O, accepts it. I bet it wasnt surprise.””
Why did Biden have a piece of paper he was reading from if this caught him by surprise! That didn’t even qualify him for a NOMINATION for an Academy Award - so phony!
Kaslin, you must really, really absolutely adore Limbaugh because you post his daily rants like clockwork. Whats puzzling is why you adore the guy. He hasnt been right about anything at all during the past, what, fifteen years? He showed everyone his true colors during the past two years as a RINO cuckservative who did everything in his power to destroy Trump during the runup to the election. You know, Trump, the last best hope to save the Republic. So Limbaugh, in effect, defaulted his influence to prop up the Marxocrats and the Hag. Why is his opinion of any interest at all to you or anyone else, given that he has shown his judgment to be not only pathetic, but downright dangerous to our freedom and liberty?
But then, I need keep in mind that Free Republic has always been Cruzerville Central, populated by #NeverTrumpers and Cruzers, to the degree that when Trump needed Freeper support early in the primaries this site looked like a mirror of Democratic Underground.
What is the one thing that absolutely scares the democrats??
That Trump will succeed.!!!!
What a delusional piece of nonsense. After a fairly long fight between the Cruz and Trump factions, when Trump's nomination was clear, FR threw the die hard Cruz fanatics off the site.
A more pro Trump site can't be found. FR was a stalwart friend of Trump, defending him from the stupidity of nevertrumpers every single day.
Fairly wild claim, considering you have only been on FR for a year.
DU? Show me the evidence. Dt has a stimulus, he’s out there handing out taxpayer dollars to carrier (who said, thanks, we are using some of this for automation, not jobs). How much will the carrier deal cost, and for how long? This is what I am never for. I stand by the constitution because I must and that means limited power.. not unilateral CEO-ships. Dt is doing Obamas jobs created or saved nonsense. If he builds a wall, makes insurance available across state lines, I will be mildly pleased. Not a fan of his.. we will have to work something out on the dreamers amnesty plan. I am #ever The Constitution.. don’t get me started on the 9.7 trillion “ vehicle to repeal Obamacare” Republican garbage.
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