Posted on 12/10/2018 5:34:36 PM PST by Kaslin
RUSH: Now, I got a note from a friend who heard the first hour of the program, and I’m gonna share elements of the note. “Everybody knows, Rush, that Trump sometimes says things that are counterproductive to getting his good message out. But, then again, none of us have been the target for 19 months by a fantastic prosecutor or 92% negative press coverage.
“The point is that there is a visual microscope on Trump virtually 24/7. Virtually anything Trump says or does is reported, commented upon, amplified, broadcast around the world. There’s not a one of us who could survive this kind of scrutiny and this kind of attention, and the purpose of it is destruction. The point as I see it, Rush, is we have to deal with reality, and the reality is that Donald Trump and no one else — by sheer force of personality and guts — has saved us from corrupt socialism that Hillary Clinton would have ushered in.”
His point is, this is all worth it. The alternative to Donald Trump was unacceptable. Hillary Clinton and the continuation of the Obama agenda and the dilution of the United States of America as a sovereign nation and a continuation of its becoming a member of the global conglomerate — where there wouldn’t be any debate about climate change; we would just pay up. Where there wouldn’t be any debate about open borders; we would just keep them open. Where there wouldn’t be any debate about whatever American culture or society is.
It would be whatever the socialists said it was gonna be. And then he injects something personal. The friend says, “I know that much of your success has been handling nuts and haters with humor or parody. I can’t remember you losing your temper more than once or twice in over 30 years. You never tweet, and you don’t goad Trump, and you don’t hold grudges — even when you should, given the stuff that’s thrown at you. You don’t even cut off the occasional madman phone caller. You let them rant their way into oblivion. That’s why even leftists listen to you.
“Trump does not have the ability to let it go. Although when he’s funny, he’s really funny. But the lack of Trump’s ability to just let this stuff go — the lack of Trump’s ability to not lose his temper, to not push back — does not mean that his presidency is not vital at this 11th hour and that his energy and resilience are amazing, given the hatred he incurs. He deserves our respect for doing what 99% cannot do, and that’s get up to hatred every morning, wake up to hatred every morning and try to save the country,” and let me tell you something, folks.
That is undeniable. I even said (I don’t know how many times I’ve said it), “There is nobody I know in or out of politics who could put up with what Donald Trump puts up with and stay focused.” I don’t know anybody who wouldn’t be reduced to tears at the loss of their reputation or why everybody hates them or, “Why can’t they just leave me alone. What did I do to these people!” I can hear all the complaints. There’s not a single person that could put up with what he’s putting up with.
And the fact that he’s putting up with it to essentially save this country? We ought to be grateful! People ought to be grateful. But there are people starting to weaken. There are people starting to go wobbly here. “Trump’s tweeting too much. Trump’s embarrassing me with what he says about Tillerson. Trump’s doing this…” It all boils down to whether or not you think the country’s at a crisis point, whether or not you think that we actually are on the cusp of losing our founding and being overrun officially with socialism and worse.
The guy that sent me the note says, “You know, I get uncomfortable sometimes for a nanosecond with Trump’s blasts. But mostly his furor sometimes overshadows his great record, which has already bested both Bushes. But that’s about 1% of my worries, given without him, by October 2016, we were doomed for a disastrous 2009 to 2024 medieval age.”
So this guy literally believes that Trump’s election staved off an absolute crisis and disaster that would have meant the end, eventually, of this country’s founding. And therefore keep in perspective why all these assaults and who’s behind them. By the way, I would venture to say that a significant portion of the official elected Republican population does not see it this way at all. You and I know this.
This is why it it’s been so frustrating voting for Republicans. They’ve said the right things on the campaign trail, but when it’s come time to fight back or even just defend themselves, they haven’t done so. And so we’ve kind of felt stranded. And it’s because they don’t see it this way at all. They don’t see immigration, illegal immigration as a threat. They don’t see climate change and what it means in terms of the ongoing socialist onslaught. They don’t see any of this.
They think those of us who do are kooks. But Trump does see it. And the thing about Trump is, despite everything, he still isn’t an ideologue. In a sense we’re kind of lucky that Trump’s instincts align with our ideology because he’s not an ideologue. I can tell you from personal firsthand experience. If you start talking to Trump in ideological terms, you lose him. The conservative view versus the liberal.
He may be a little bit more sensitive to it now, more aware of it now, but that’s not his makeup. And a lot of people aren’t ideological. As you know it’s one of my frequent complaints, that if people were more ideological and actually understood and knew the ideology of leftism, socialism, the Democrat Party today, that we wouldn’t have nearly the trouble we’re having in communicating with people.
ut Trump’s instincts, which stem from what? What do they derive from? They derive from wanting a great America. And to Donald Trump, a great America is the America of our founding. An America born of individual liberty and freedom, including free market economics.
Do you realize everybody who has run for president since the beginning of the so-called energy crisis in the late sixties — let’s say every president starting with Richard Nixon going on through Jimmy Carter up to the present, every one of them has promised us energy independence. Every one of them has warned us and told us that if we do not wean ourselves from the teat of Saudi Arabian oil, that we are doomed to be dependent on an enemy.
One guy has made us energy independent. Donald Trump. We are now officially an exporter of energy. At the same time, do you know the United States CO2 emissions have been reduced more than any nation in the world? And do you know that is? It’s a real number, and it’s the real truth. For those of you in Rio Linda, the stuff that creates climate change, the stuff that creates the greenhouse effect, CO2, we have reduced ours more than any industrialized nation in the world.
The two greatest polluters are the ChiComs and India, and they have been exempted from the Paris accords. Do you know how we’ve done this? Natural gas. We have more natural gas than we know what to do with, and it’s resulted from the technology of fracking. Being able to drill sideways into places where nobody thought there was oil. Along the way we found pockets of natural gas out the wazoo.
We could reduce emissions even more if we were to go back and start building nuclear plants. The point is, Donald Trump has done this. Yeah, well, he tweets things that may embarrass. I’m not bothered by ’em, and I never have been. The only way I’ve been bothered by them is the ammo they give people, but in terms of souring me on Trump, they don’t.
And there’s a part of me, your former Secretary of State Tillerson is out there with Bob Schieffer, formally of CBS, and telling the world that you’re undisciplined, that you don’t read, that you’re not curious and that you’re routinely asking him to do things when he was secretary of state that violated the law. What would you do? Well, Trump fires back that he’s never met anybody stupider, that he’s never met anybody lazier, that he’s not – “Oh, my God. I can’t believe what Trump’s doing, oh, my God.”
Do you know that Tillerson started it?
“No, I didn’t hear that. But even if he did, I don’t like what Trump –” That’s the ongoing effort is to get people to essentially abandon the Trumpster.
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“Fantastic prosecutor”?
Did he mean FANATIC prosecutor?
[[He’s Saving America, But You Can’t Take the Tweets?]]
Obviously they can’t take it because America allowed Dems to take house- what the hell was America thinking? “Gee- We’re doing great now, We’re recovering from a disastrous 8 years, more people working, jobs everywhere now, etc etc etc- I know, let’s give control of the house to democrats- that’ll help”?
I’m one bad election away from losing all hope that America is capable of rational thought
Is it jealousy? Envy that he is getting things done and making the professional politicians look like idling fools? Or just simply resentment that he is an outsider? Whatever it is, President Trump inspires a lot of hate within our self-proclaimed elite.
This was actually a very good Soliloquy from Rush. I heard it live. I believe Larry heard it live too. FAKE NEWS stories of Republicans doubting President Trump’s reelection have been kicked off and there will doubtless be hundreds of them and they will not stop. President Trump tweeted something about the podesta’s and one of theie naked body paint parties and Valerie Jarrett was present at it as well. Some of you will know what I’m talking about. I believe this was a warning sent to President Trump’s enemies that he has such evidence and means business. We need to dig in our heels and now is the time to get tougher than anything we have been in the past. That said that includes praying harder and more often as well. Myself included.
I think I'm there already.
I love the tweets. It gets the truth out. Much better than the news for what is really going on. The way he trolls the media and dems is great. Controls the narrative.
When he tweets certain policy stuff the market usually tanks. he should stick to going after his attackers and positive economy stuff. the anti fake news. but when he does the “i like tariffs crap” the markets go crazy. I think i know that he means the tariff threats work to negotiate his deals. and they do. but don’t tweet it that way donald and make sure your tweets don’t sound like your whining. that will lose. we want to win and keep winning done whine.
As I’ve said a dozen different ways, today, Trump needs to pour it on, not just tweeting, but on every front. If they’re planning on trying to take him, he should go for broke, and give it all he’s got. Midterms are over, and there are hundreds of news cycles til 2020. They won’t respect him if he gives in, OR if he doesn’t, and we won’t respect if he does. Take off your gloves, Mr President, and dirty up that manicure. You’re in the fight of your and our lives!
Many people have been trained to hate Trump. There are many people who can’t stand the fake news media now. Everyone can list at least a dozen media people they don’t like and can’t stand.
Fascistic prosecutor!
Even if the markets do go crazy when he tweets “I love Tariffs†it’s meant to shake up the people we trade with. It’s a bargaining ploy. He knows that they tax more and therefore he can win the contest of wills. So far it’s worked to get them to lower tariffs on their side . I like free trade and his strategy is working to make that happen.
I heard Rush today and he was very good.. that email was spot on! I wish he would go on a long loud tear every day.. and more conservative hosts do likewise. Send a messsge we are TRUMPERS! And stop the trashing!
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