Posted on 02/07/2020 12:47:41 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: We’ll start with Elliott in Wilmette, Illinois. Thanks, Elliott, for holding on. And welcome to the program. Hi.
CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush. My very, very best wishes for you. I’m very pleased to speak with you. My question has to do with the State of the Union show. From the party we were in, we could see from your surprise, we could hear you saying to yourself, “Keep it together, keep it together, keep it together.” My question is about Nancy Pelosi and did you notice from where you were her pre-tearing of the speech before she did so at the end?
RUSH: Yeah, but I didn’t know what it was. I saw her pre-tearing it, and I had no idea that it was because —
CALLER: Was that before she started or along during it? And the second, what —
RUSH: No. It was —
CALLER: — will that do to the Democrats?
RUSH: No, it was before because clearly she didn’t have the strength to rip it from scratch, so —
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: — she had to get each page started in advance so that when she went to rip it up.
CALLER: That was before he started?
RUSH: Well, I don’t — no, I think it was after he started.
CALLER: Ah.
RUSH: Although I have to say, I only know that based on what I’ve seen since. I didn’t actually see her doing that, the initial rip during the State of the Union speech. Now, what it all means for the Democrats, I don’t think this is complicated, and I wish I had some unique, brand-new, you’ve-never-heard-it-before answer. But you want to know what the impact of this is gonna be on the Democrats? It is going to be devastating.
I’m watching the media today. I’ve watched the media the past couple of days. They’re trying to glaze over this debacle in Iowa. Even media that you think is friendly to us, they’re doing everything they can to salvage this because they need viable opponents for ratings. They need to be able to report that the Democrats have a chance, that the Democrats are gaining ground on Trump.
But, folks, the mistake that they have made from the beginning, they continue to make it. They are incapable of fixing this. For whatever unreasonable, make-no-sense reasons, they hate Donald Trump. And they think everybody else does too. There’s no other reason to do this. But look. Everything they have tried has failed. Everything has blown up on them.
They are the epitome of Wile E. Coyote. They are a laughingstock. They are a joke out there across the fruited plain. They’re not a laughingstock or joke in the media because the media’s invested in ’em, wants ’em to look good, wants ’em to win.
But I’m telling you, ripping up the State of the Union speech that’s chronicling and reporting on the greatness of the State of the Union, the improvements and the changes for the good for everybody that has happened, there’s no sizable constituency out there that hates Trump so much that they’re gonna applaud that. The Democrat Party makes the mistake of assuming that Twitter is national public opinion.
They make the mistake of assuming that Twitter represents a majority of their support. Twitter represents maybe 20% of the thinking of this country. And they’ll never figure this out. Because the media lies to them, and the media pumps them up. And they literally sit there — Pelosi literally thinks that this country hates Trump more and more every day. Why else do this? Why pull a stunt like this? If she thinks that it’s going to harm the Democrats, there’s no reason to do it.
She obviously thinks this is gonna help ’em. And I think it’s a great illustration of how totally out of touch they are and have been for four years. And I’ll tell you something, I don’t think they have ever been close the past three, four years, however you want to tabulate, they’ve not been close to meeting their objectives on Donald Trump. They have not been close to getting rid of him. They’ve not been close to succeeding in impeachment. They’ve not been close on this Russia business.
They have been embarrassingly off bent, out of touch. They have looked mean-spirited and ridiculous to a vast majority of normal Americans to whom their behavior doesn’t make any sense. And the Democrats have no way of knowing that and seeing that. This was a big debacle. This Iowa mess is right along the line with it.
As I said, I’m watching the media, “The Democrats have given the candidates additional time here to work out the –” Come on. This is an embarrassment. What was the result of impeachment? It killed Joe Biden. Impeachment killed Joe Biden. That’s what impeachment did. Impeachment took out Joe Biden. Joe Biden finishes fourth. Biden is finished. Biden was never gonna win this thing.
I’m telling you. How many times did I tell you in June or May 2019? ABC does that story reporting on Biden and his kid, Hunter. I told you they’re trying to take him out. Biden’s not gonna be the nominee, and they don’t want it to be Crazy Bernie. How about the Des Moines Register poll the right before the Hawkeye Cauci? They don’t release it, claiming some kind of snafu. The snafu was they didn’t like the result.
These people, I think, are the ones that manipulate vote counts, not Trump. These are the people that partnered with Russia — well, Hillary Clinton did, with all of that — and no matter what they try, it blows up in their face. But go back. The last week, the last two weeks, the last month, what have you heard in the Drive-By Media? “Joe Biden is leading by a landslide, slam dunk. Joe Biden’s leading in Iowa! Joe Biden wins in Iowa. He’s gonna clear the decks in New Hampshire.”
Joe Biden comes in fourth place in Iowa. Meanwhile, Trump’s got his headline: “Acquitted! Trump Acquitted.” How stupid are they? They knew this was going to be the result. They knew Trump was going to be acquitted, and yet they went ahead with this anyway. Why? Because they think everybody hates Trump. The big mistake they make is they think they represent a majority of thinking in this country.
They think that wacko liberalism/socialism/communism is the majority thinking in this country. It’s not even close. But they think they’ve gotta hold their base together. So I think that’s what Pelosi ripping up the speech was, plus total frustration. Trump was acquitted. He made her look like a political novice when she supposedly is the dean of Washington politicians. Anyway, I appreciate the call.
This is Elizabeth in Columbus, Ohio. You’re next. It’s great to have you. Hi.
CALLER: Hey, Rush. It’s good to hear you on the radio.
RUSH: Thank you, ma’am.
CALLER: My question for you is I wonder what lessons you think the Republican leadership are learning from watching the Democratic implosion. How do you think —
RUSH: Well, if you look, the Republican Party’s pretty unified behind Trump.
CALLER: Well, I think they’ve had the benefit of not being in the spotlight. But, you know, the rise of Trump was really because I think on both sides, Republican and Democrat, there are a large portion of people that feel very frustrated with not being heard and, you know, I think that’s what led to Trump winning the Republican nomination. You know, he wasn’t their guy, and Republican base put him in there almost as a referendum I think in some ways against the Republican leadership.
RUSH: No question about it.
CALLER: Well, so what have they learned from that and from watching the Democrats try to deal with the same, you know, divisions in their party? And how are they gonna take that once Trump is out of office?
RUSH: Well, I don’t know for sure what they’ve learned, but I’ll tell you what they should have learned. They should have learned… If they look at Trump’s approval rating, if they look at the economy, he has the highest approval rating ever. Trump’s approval rating as president, after all of this? Elizabeth, after all this impeachment, after all of the Mueller investigation (which was a perjury trap), after the Russia stuff, Trump’s approval rating is at an all-time high.
I think one of the lessons that I see being learned by a whole lot of Republicans is they don’t have to be afraid of the media anymore. If Donald Trump is demonstrating one thing, it’s you don’t have to be afraid of what the media says about you. You can win if you simply connect with a majority of the American people. And Trump did, and he connected with a majority of the American people because, particularly Republicans, they’re fed up. They’ve been lied to campaign after campaign after campaign.
Candidates have promised to do X, Y, and Z year after year after year. They get elected; it doesn’t happen. Take the issue. It doesn’t matter, trade or health care, you name it. Trump comes along, and he is not one of those people. He is, by definition, an outsider who is already well-known, has established an identity with people in his other businesses, and he has the unique ability to speak publicly and be believed.
People take him seriously. They believe he means what he says, that he’s going to do what he’s gonna do, and he does it. And they’ve learned it. And it just, to me, illustrates how many people in this country for so long have been frustrated with the deep state or just the way Washington works. And the way Washington works is it’s all about them and their families and their kids. It’s really not about you — except every election, they make it look like it is.
There are some exceptions here, but most of Washington… Look at the ambassadorial corps that testified against Trump. By the way, did you see Trump might be getting rid of Vindman? Right on, dude! Lieutenant Colonel Vindman — O say can you…? Get rid of him! Get rid of all these saboteurs! Trump’s approval rating will go up to 60% if he does this. Will we find out…? (interruption) We know… (interruption)
Oh, we know who the whistleblower is. He has been outed publicly the moment I mentioned his name. But look, it’s nothing about Trump. Trump doesn’t go back. He’ll slam ’em as they fail, but he’s gonna keep movin’ forward. He leaves them in the dust. All they can do is cry over spilt milk and bellyache and whine and moan. Trump is outmaneuvering them.
He’s out-dancing them. He is zooming and speeding by these people on his agenda, on his approach with the media and so forth. They still don’t know… It’s amazing to me that they still haven’t figured out and don’t seem to care who he really is and how to stop him, which is fine and dandy with me. They continue to just do dumb, ignorant things as they attempt to stay true or whatever to their ideology.
Rush was RIOT imitating Trump inviting him to the State of the Union. Something like:
TRUMP: Hey Rush!!! Can you make it to my meeting tonight, would really like to have you there...!!!
I’m hearing today that Nancy tore up the original copy of the SOTU speech, which was supposed to go to the National Archives.
Rush was great today. First time I’d listened in a long time.
May he have many more years ahead of him.
The Democrats have some serious problems, and may have trouble being united behind whoever emerges from the convention.
If there’s a brokered convention, and we go to a 2nd ballot or more ballots, we know big numbers will be angry that their favorite candidate was shoved aside.
And perhaps a majority of the party, will be angry, if they force feed Hillary down their throats as some kind of “compromise” or “unity” candidate.
And with the party so concerned with “diversity”, if a white man is the nominee, he will be under huge pressure to pick a woman, and possibly a black woman, as his running mate.
It will be a balancing act going forward, so as not to tick off followers of Bernie, or any groups of people, to the point where they don’t support the eventual nominee.
PURE GENIUS:
direct video link to tweet:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1225553117929988097
It's Trump's "pinned tweet", and it shows Granny Wine Box tearing up the speech after every great story of the SOTU.
The Twitter Lefties are HOWLIING about getting it taken down.
I've teased a few Bernie bros on Twitter over Iowa.
They mad.
Nancy the ripper
The democrats have reached the Logical Conclusion of the Peter Principle. They ARE The PETER PRINCIPLE POLITICAL PARTY.
They can’t go further ahead.
And they can’t go back. They have reached the last up rung on their ladder and slowly realize they also destroyed the rungs below. They ARE Wile E. Coyote holding up a sign that says “Uh-oh”....
Uhhh...Nancy. It's not your House. It's our House and I'm pretty sure your days standing there are limited. Indeed, even some Democrats think what you did after the SOTU address was simply stupid.
Plus, impeachment damaged the Dems with indies, unified the Republicans and I suspect disgusted a lot of the base when they couldn't deliver.
Makes you wonder what did he take that was so bad?
Yep!
The President doesnt just hand the Speaker of the House extra crap to rip up so the cameras can catch them doing government stuff.
And with the relationship between these two.(?)
Trump hit the entire thing out of the park. Ignored every cat call. Did his job and did it very well.
Made every democrat in the federal government attend Rush Limbaugh’s award ceremony.
Flew a local hero home from battle to be reunited with his family because he is the Commander-in-Chief and thats the way you get things done.
Validated the legitimate elected president of Venezuela on the world stage.
Said absolutely nothing negative about anything or anyone the entire night.
I believe it was the House’s copy and was signed by the President. No matter how you cut it....she destroyed a governement document...not a personal copy.
At least she didn’t rip her bodice. Americans might have never recovered from that sight.
Yes, she did. Two copies signed by President Trump, one for the VP and one for the Speaker of the House, both are originals destined for historical archives. Nancy Pee-lousy knew what she was doing was illegal and didn't care, because she, like Hillary Clinton, can shred government documents at will because they are above the law. She pre-tore the papers, and staged it for the cameras. Only the Republicans can be accused of non-existent illegal acts while treasonous Democrats dance while committing crimes in full view. She needs to ripped and shredded by authorities.
When the video got to the Gold Star families ... that made me cry. Nancy Pelosi said that their story was a lie? What is wrong with that woman?
When the video got to the Gold Star families ... that made me cry. Nancy Pelosi said that their story was a lie? What is wrong with that woman?
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