Why We’re About to See the Strangest Inauguration in Our Lifetimes

Why We’re About to See the Strangest Inauguration in Our Lifetimes
Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | January 19, 2020 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 01/19/2021 2:59:07 PM PST by Kaslin

RUSH: So we are one day away from the strangest inauguration of a president in our lifetimes. That would be the inauguration of Joe “Plugs” Biden. There’s an interesting story here today from The Federalist: “Trump Set To Leave Office With A Higher Approval Rating Than George W. Bush.”

There was also a survey last week that told the story that Donald Trump’s the most admired man in the country, most admired man in the world, maybe. And everybody looks at that, how in the world can that be? Well, it can, and it was. And now he’s got a higher approval rating than George W. Bush. Trump is leaving office with an approval rating of about 40%. And, as you know, George W. Bush left office with just under 30% of Americans on his side.

What does this tell you? Well, it tells you a number of things, but I think that it is proof that fighting back, defending yourself and, more importantly, defending your base, works. It is a vastly more successful strategy, a vastly more successful way of using your power and maintaining it.

You know, it took the Drive-By Media seven years, almost the entirety of two Bush terms, to get his approval numbers down to the thirties. And they celebrated when they did. We’ve played for you over and over Wolf Blitzer practically having an orgasm multiple times an hour reporting “Breaking news! George W. Bush approval rating in the thirties.” They had been struggling to get there. And they finally pulled it off.

Now, you would think, based on the news coverage this week and just on the overall presentation of events, you would think that Donald Trump was leaving office with no approval, that everybody hates the guy’s guts. And it’s the exact opposite. Now they’re having to say, “Okay. Well, we’re dealing with a cult here.” The Drive-Bys are trying to draw a difference between the 75 million people that voted for Trump — they are a cult — and the oddball, kookanons at QAnon.

They are doing everything they can to disparage and to render all of you Trump supporters as not worthy of any attention because you’re not normal. You’re a cult. And, therefore, their efforts to get you to abandon Trump are never gonna work because you’re cultists and it just doesn’t happen. The only way you’ll ever abandon Trump is if Trump abandons you. And they don’t expect that to happen.

Washington Post has a story. “QAnon Adherents Discussed Posing as National Guard to Try to Infiltrate Inauguration, According to FBI Intelligence Briefing.” Really? In a nutshell, we are supposed to believe because of the story in the Washington Post that there’s a real risk that right-wingers are pretending to be National Guard soldiers so they can disrupt Biden’s inauguration.

I told you this yesterday. I told you they’re impugning the National Guard and uniformed military personnel. They are 90% white. That means they’re 90% white supremacists. That means they vote for Trump. Only 20% voted for Biden. It could be a bloodbath, they say. It could be really, really bad. Now, bear in mind that if you believe, for example, that Antifa or Black Lives Matter infiltrates left-wing protests and makes them look horrible and so forth for the purposes of impugning the left, why, that is a conspiracy theory and you have no right to it.

You are engaging in Cucamonga conspiracy theories if you believe that Antifa or Black Lives Matter infiltrates. That’s a conspiracy theory that will get you banned from social media. If you suggested Antifa members might have posed as Trump supporters to disrupt the protests at the Capitol, ah, it’s unthinkable. But it’s the exact opposite if you point out that right wingers are infiltrating the National Guard. And the Washington Post story makes it sound like it’s very easy to do. Really so easy to do. And there could be a bloodbath. Could be horrible out there.

The acting defense secretary — yes, I said “acting.” Do you know why the word “acting” is necessary here? The “acting” defense secretary? Trump for the most part — exceptions, of course — Trump was never allowed to have any of his picks actually confirmed. Some of them were never confirmed. They were simply acting defense secretaries awaiting confirmation?

Anyway, this one, Christopher Miller, said yesterday that there is “no intelligence” whatsoever… “Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said Monday that there is no intelligence to suggest President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration is being targeted by any members of the National Guard.”

But nevertheless, he thought it was a good idea to vet all 25,000 of them anyway, which means poring through their online posts and probably any divorce records (you know, just to be safe). So even though we’ve been told by the Department of Defense that there is no evidence of any uprising within the National Guard, quote, “the Pentagon is deploying 750 active-duty soldiers to Washington for security for the inaugural…”

Which, that’s a long-standing… It’s a violation of a long-standing prohibition against using active duty troops to police American citizens. But they’re gonna do it because the threat is so real; the threat is so high. This is so bogus. It’s just a continuation of what they were doing yesterday. The character assassination of uniformed military personal — which they’ve deployed!

They have called ’em out, they have called ’em up, the National Guard. Now they are impugning and poisoning them. This is the Posse Comitatus Act forbids U.S. military involvement in domestic law enforcement. Now, here’s an observation for you, and I think this is very important to point out. The Washington establishment — the deep state (whatever you want to call it), the swamp (whatever you want to call ’em) — look what they can do.

They can build massive fences around an entire city — in this case, Washington. They can build massive fences, and they can have military personnel, armed military personnel deployed at a moment’s notice. They could have razor wire at the top of the fences that they are able to build over an entire metro area seemingly overnight.

They can bring in massive military and shut down anyone coming in to Washington, D.C. And they can do this in one week or less. But for decades, they failed to protect the southern border in similar fashion. They said it wasn’t possible. They said, “Walls do not work,” while they are in the process of building their own. “Nah, walls don’t work. Walls make our country look bad. We can’t do that!

“This is bad. We want immigrants. We want people flooding our country. We need these people to do jobs Americans won’t do.” We heard all of that. But they can when they want to! They can build a wall around a city size of Washington, D.C. They can deploy 26,000 military personnel, and then impugn them at the same time. But they couldn’t do anything similar to protect the nation at the southern border.

Trump showed that it can be done in two years. Trump showed that a lot of things they say can’t be done could be done, and they hate him for it. Donald Trump showed it. Do not discount the importance of this. Donald Trump… Whether he intended to or not, Donald Trump illustrated to the world that the Washington establishment is incompetent, whether on purpose or not.

Donald Trump did, in two years, construct a wall and other things — rebuilt an economy — on the premise of American greatness, America First. He did all of this, and he made all of the Washington swamp dwellers look either uninformed, incompetent, or incapable. “Well, that’s inexcusable, can’t have that. So we’ve gotta reverse that. Trump needs to be the one need to look like an abject idiot,” and this is what ticks ’em off the most.

He showed them up. He showed them up with a smile on his face every day. The mistake he made was thinking he was going to be rewarded for this. I don’t blame him. To this day, I find it literally outrageous that the concept of making America great again is controversial. I find it just stupefying that the whole notion of America First, Make America Great Again, is what animates a political party, the Democrat Party, into massive opposition.

The concept of putting America first, the concept of American greatness. There’s nothing like that to get them in gear to stop it. But Trump succeeded in it, and the rest of the world saw it. They saw that it is possible to do the Trump agenda. The only thing that stopped it was the pandemic. Trump showed the entire world that an outsider (and this is important) with no corrupt connections to lobbying groups or foreign countries can actually solve massive issues that have plagued this country for years.

It’s precisely that an outsider can do it, an outsider that’s not tied down, not weighted down with corrupt connections to lobbying firms, foreign countries, foreign companies, you name it. In other words, he showed them up every day of his administration. “Can’t have that! This cannot be allowed to stand. We can’t have a guy with orange hair (sputtering) who has never been in our club…

“We can’t have this guy come in and literally reverse every we have been doing for 40 years so now that things work. We can’t allow this, and so this guy’s gotta go and he’s a gotta be destroyed in the process.” Trump showed them, showed ’em up. He showed them to be the purposefully incompetent, lying bunch of corrupt people that they are in the Washington establishment. They met. They go on TV. They have investigations. They pass laws.

They campaign on the problems.

But they have not fixed anything in the country in decades, under the premise that, “Well, it really can’t be fixed. They’re so permanently embedded the way they are, all we can do is manage whatever decline stems from all of this.” How about this? This is from TMZ, which is a gossip journalism site. Headline: “Biden’s Inauguration Will Use Pricey Security Company to Secure the Event.”

Folks, it’s getting harder and harder not to be a conspiracy theorist, and I’m not one. I really am not. But what are we faced with here? What’s the left telling us? We don’t have to figure this out. They’re telling us. They do not trust the police. They wanted to defund the police as quick as they could. They don’t trust the military! The military, the National Guard, could be an uprising against Biden.

Secret Service may be part of it. They don’t trust them. So, Plugs and his gang went out and hired a private firm — a private firm — ’cause they can’t trust the people who swear an oath under the Constitution to protect them. Can’t trust them. Now, where do you think the people that these people are hiring come from?

They’re ex-Secret Service.

They are ex-military.

They are ex-National Guard.

This story has been out since the middle of December. “Biden’s Inauguration Will Use Pricey Security Company to Secure the [Inauguration].” This is being done to show the military and others that Biden and his team mean business. Man, oh, man, folks. What they are doing to the image of some of the most wonderful, competent, great people in all of our country.

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