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March 18, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 18, 2016, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 podcast.
Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
It's Friday.
Let's hit it.
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It's confusing as heck today.
Snerdley, by the way, did you know that there was a secret conf right here in Palm Beach last night?
Of establishment people and donors.
Yes, it was huge.
It's a two-day thing.
Paul Ryan was there.
It was uh yesterday and today.
It it consists of many donors, like this guy Paul Singer.
And the Ricketts family owns the Chicago Cubs.
And it's all about what can we do to stop Trump?
And what's confusing it, no, I was not invited.
I didn't even know it was happening until I read about it politico today.
I mean, if if I've got the they name it a pricey French restaurant.
The uh dinner last night took place at a pricey French restaurant.
So it's got to be one of two.
It's either Cha Jean-Pierre or Cafe Balut.
It's one, and if I'm leaving one out, I don't mean to be offensive.
If it's another pricey French restaurant in town.
They're all pricey, are they not?
No, it was in Palm Beach.
It was it was it was in Palm Beach.
It's it's going on even now.
I mean, the the dinner ended last night, but it's a two-day confab.
Anyway, what what's confusing here?
Here, let me just give you the headlines before we get into this in in great detail.
Ryan Huddles with GOP donors.
Big money givers convene in Palm Beach, weighing what to do about Trump.
Well, here's the first graph.
House Speaker Paul Ryan met Thursday night at a pricey French restaurant in Palm Beach with some of the party's biggest donors to assess a political landscape dominated by one vexing question.
What to do about Donald Trump.
And then the next headline.
GOP operatives, conservative leaders meet to thwart Trump.
This is a different group.
This is the group that uh is headed up by Eric Erickson.
Occasional guest host here has a new website called the Resurgent.
And then there's this headline.
Republican National Committee spokesman.
The party will rally around Trump if he's the nominee 100%.
And then there's this.
Contested convention looking more likely, says Speaker Ryan.
Now wait till you hear the next one, though.
Ryan says we'll make it work with Trump.
What are we supposed to believe here?
This story from the Hill.com contested convention looking more likely, says Speaker Ryan by somebody named Scott Wong.
For the first time, Paul Ryan's acknowledged the increasing likelihood the GOP nominate will be decided in Cleveland at a contested convention.
Next story.
With his youthful earnestness, genial personality and devotion to conservative policy, Paul Ryan enjoyed a special stature within the GOP even before he became House Speaker.
Was interviewed by John Harwood, MSNBC.
He said, we'll make it work if it happens.
If Trump's a nominee, we'll make it work.
I'm going to speak my mind.
I'm going to defend conservatism as I understand it.
I'm going to defend our ideas as the Republican Party, but we're going to have to work with whoever the nominee is.
Now, what are what are we plebes supposed to make of all this?
I mean, two contradictory stories.
Ryan, oh yeah, no question.
Convested contested convention looking more likely, and we'll make Trump.
Maybe they go together.
Maybe they'll do the contested convention, and if Trump wins it, we'll get behind Trump.
Maybe that's what it means.
On the Democrat side, I have four things.
Four different stories from four totally different sources about Hillary Clinton.
The New York Times, the Huffing and Puffington Post, the Daily Caller, and the New York Post.
And each of them outline different reasons, four different reasons.
That Hillary Clinton is probably the worst Democrat candidate in the history of all time.
Now, each story taken individually, eh, maybe not all that bad.
Except this is a person who traditionally gets a pass in the drive-by media.
Hillary Clinton always will get a pass.
And yet here are four different stories with four different reasons why she's the worst Democrat nominee in history.
As I say taken individually, kind of a ho-hummer, but you put them together.
Union members hate her and love Trump.
Blacks have no enthusiasm for her.
As a sidebar, I don't know what kind of credibility you want to attach to this, but in the Soundbite roster today, I have Heroldo Rivera, a grim reaper, predicting that Trump could get 25% of the African American vote.
But on the Republican side, they think Trump would lose in a Goldwater-style landslide.
But the Democrats don't.
The Democrats are worried still.
That's what all these Hillary stories are really all about.
There's another story, by the way, people upset with Elizabeth Warren who will not yet come out and endorse Hillary.
And who also will not demand that Hillary reveal her transcripts of the speeches that she's making to the big banks.
So while everybody's worried about what's happening on the Republican side, the Democrats are not a model of unity right now.
The third Hillary story, white men are repelled by her.
That's the New York Post story.
And the fourth story is how she's being investigated by four different government groups relating to national security risks and violations.
Four different stories, four different reasons why she's a disaster for the Democrat Party waiting to happen.
Now, we have to always keep in mind that when the drive-by's are behind things like this, you never know how much of it, how much of it's legit and how much of it is part of a strategy.
We just never know.
We know that our history with the drive-by media and the Democrats is that they love to lower expectations.
They love because Republicans are so susceptible, so open to hearing the problems involving the Clintons.
Republicans are so open to a news story that says this might be the time where the Clintons finally are done in.
Republicans have been waiting for that magic story for 25 years.
So So there's always that to uh to factor in.
But it's not these four stories that standalones.
This this the anti-Hillary stories, the problems with Hillary, the fact that she can't draw a crowd, the fact she can't sell books, the fact that she has no connection with voters, the fact that she doesn't appear to be human, that she doesn't know how to be human, that it's it's not isolated.
These four stories are not out of the blue.
They are a continuation of an ongoing pattern that does indicate a degree of unrest on the Democrat side.
We'll get into all four stories as the uh as the program unfolds before your very eyes.
I also I got an email today from friend who said, You better, you need to straighten something out.
I said, What's that?
Well, when you you talk about the establishment and a convention and all that, uh I I think people might think you're talking about the delegates.
And it's a good point.
Uh let me see if I can if I can I don't know if there's anything to straighten out, but let me clarify something.
Because in the past couple of weeks, I have rolled up my sleeves and I have gotten pretty intense in my discussion of Trump opponents within the Republican establishment and what their motivations are.
And many people have come under the incorrect assumption I'm talking about to them.
The re the delegates to the Republican National Convention, just the standard ordinary everyday delegates, are just like you and me, folks.
They are elected, nominated, whatever they they win the honor at the state level.
The delegates are not part of anything.
When we talk about a contested convention in the establishment getting together and choosing whoever would be the nominee, maybe in defiance of the popular vote, in defiance of democratic principles and so forth.
I'm not talking about the delegates, except as to point out that the delegates on the first ballot are committed, their pledge to vote, however the people of state voted after that, they can do whatever they want.
But when when we get into in-depth discussions here of the establishment and their motives, I'm not talking about delegates in any way, shape, manner, or form.
The delegates are in fact the focus of attention with all the horse trading.
The delegates are some people in some cases who can be told what to do, depending on the structure of the Republican Party from the state they uh representing as delegates.
But it's it's if anybody has concluded that in my discussions here of the quote unquote establishment and actions that may or may not be taken at the convention, that that involves delegates as people in the smoke-filled rooms, the power brokers pulling the levers, doing what they can to deny the expressed will of the people.
The delegates are not part of that discussion.
As an example, you have a Reuters story.
Meet a man who will help determine Trump's fate in the 2016 race.
Actually, kind of a strange story for Reuters.
Mark Strang spends his days delivering farm equipment, listening to politics on the radio during cross-country drives.
But in July, the 63-year-old could have an outsized voice in choosing the Republican nominee, because for the first time in 40 years, Republicans could arrive at their national convention in Cleveland without a nominee.
And if frontrunner Trump fails to lock up the nomination before then, Strang will have a chance to make history.
Strang is from Illinois.
He's one of 2,472 delegates to the convention who will determine the party's choice for the White House this November.
In recent elections, the delegates have simply rubber stamped the presumptive nominee, but this year, the convention could become a brutal fight in which every delegate vote will count.
Trump currently has 673 delegates.
Short of the 1,237, some doubt among election number crunchers that he can hit it.
By the way, there's more on that today.
Another best guess scenario has Trump 60 short.
And then the question, well, what do we do then?
Anyway, if nobody gets 1237, says Reuters, that's when Mark Strang will step into the spotlight.
After filling roles in local Republican politics, Strang was selected by Illinois voters to serve as a delegate for Republican candidate Ted Cruz.
So he's a cruise delegate.
He's pledged to cruise in the first ballot.
And he can stay, if there are more than one ballot, he can stay with Cruz as long as he wants.
It's his vote.
Now he's also, like every other delegate, if it goes beyond the first ballot, all kinds of people are going to be coming to these delegates and making trades, uh, using whatever tools at their disposal to persuade them to vote the way whoever's approaching them wants them to vote.
But Mark Strang likes Cruz for his position on guns and immigration.
But if the convention becomes a fight because no candidate gets a 1237, most of the delegates would eventually be released, meaning after that first ballot.
My point is, folks, this guy is just like you or me, who happens to be a delegate uh to the convention.
And the people that are selected as delegates or win the right, it's an honor to them.
It's a big, big deal.
But they are not necessarily, and I don't want anybody being unnecessarily confused.
They are not the quote-unquote establishment.
They are not locked in.
They uh that at least as we talk about the establishment here, that is not who they are.
There was also one other bit of confusion on the program yesterday.
Happened in the last hour of the program.
And I was in the midst of an explanation about why some in the establishment so oppose Trump.
And I stated it's because they look at how Trump is winning without their services.
And I was speaking of consultants and pollsters and any number of other people who are traditionally part of every candidate's team or apparatus.
And the point that I was trying to I've I've gone to great lengths here trying to explain to people who can't understand it why people are supporting Trump.
And I've also gone to great pains to try to explain to you, the people in this audience, why the opponents of Trump oppose him, and what are the various and possible motivations for it.
Well, many people yesterday assumed I was talking about them when I was actually talking about ten people, ten or however many professional consultants there are.
I don't like naming names here, because it's um it probably would be better if I did.
I just don't like going there.
But the consultants I was talking about are the people who take on candidates and promise.
These are the guys that have for forever have been telling Republican candidates, I'm the guy that can get you the independent vote.
I'm the guy that can get you the 20% of the vote that you need to win, and that has led to Republican candidates ignoring the base, taking it for granted, and going out and sounding like squish independence, like McCain or or Romney.
But a lot of people who are opposed to Trump in the blogosphere think I was talking about them.
And I was not.
I'm under the impression falsely that people know my definition of terms when I'm talking about consultants, polsters and so forth.
Anyway, I'm up against it on time here, a brief timeout.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
Okay, let me say I need you to grab a soundbite here, let's find it very quickly.
It's gonna be uh sorry, I should have done this during the break, but I was doing something else.
Grab number 15.
Audio soundbite number 15 last night on the Fox News Channel.
Special report with Brett Bayer, speaking with Dr. Gadethammer about Trump's campaign.
And Brett Bear says, You look at the Democrats and their reaction to Donald Trump, it appears that some of them are getting a little scared about the prospect of facing Trump.
If you look at the turnout rates so far in the Republican primaries, it's exponentially higher.
He's demonstrated the ability to bring out people who aren't regular voters, regular Republicans, and he could alter the map.
I think Democrats who thought six months ago that he was a joke.
I thought he was a joke as a nominee for the Republican party, and a lot of people thought as well, and we were all wrong.
So he has a capacity to appeal.
Democrats are beginning to think that there's not a slam dunk.
And this guy, he doesn't play by the rules.
He makes them up.
And under a new set of rules, she could lose to him.
So Dr. Charles Crowdhammer at the Fox News Channel said last night he was wrong for laughing at Trump that Democrats are worried and that Trump is actually bringing a bunch of new people into the Republican Party and the Democrats are worried.
That is true.
I I don't care what others tell you about where the Democrats are, but they'd be silly not to be.
If they're smart politically, they would have to be concerned, which they are.
Quick timeout.
We'll be back and continue in a minute.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
Great to have you with us, folks, as always.
We start in uh a beautiful place.
Now's in Oaks, California.
It is the uh summer training camp location for the Dallas Cowboys traditionally.
Uh here's Susan.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Oh, is that right?
Susan, do not hang up.
We uh I was just told we've got a problem with the phone.
We can't connect.
Well, we know you're there, but we can't transfer the phone line to the um to the air.
It's like the equivalent not being able to answer the call, not being able to pick it up and connect it.
So we are working on it.
So Susan, hang on, and we'll get back to you as quickly as I can.
Let's go back to the audio sound, but this is kind of funny.
You know, yesterday I had a throwaway joke.
I cracked a joke.
You know what's funny?
Sometimes I do jokes, and people think I'm actually making serious policy statements.
And I guess this is one of those times.
Yesterday I said I got an idea for Mitch McConnell.
Mitch McConnell could offer something to Barack Obama.
He could offer the Supreme Court nominee to Obama in exchange for Obama allowing the DOJ to indict Hillary.
They actually talked about that yesterday on the five at Fox as though it were a serious proposal.
Eric Bowling getting it started.
Rush Limbaugh has an interesting idea on how to settle the nominee divide.
I think Mitch McConnell maybe offer a deal to Obama.
I'll give you your nominee if you'll have the DOJ indict Hillary.
Would Obama throw Hillary overboard to get his Supreme Court pick for life?
Except this is not the guy he wants.
Obama's gonna put somebody, if this were something other than a sacrificial pick, if this were a legacy pick, he'd find somebody in his fifties, late 40s, maybe, somebody would be there forever.
Okay, so I I look, I don't know if they took it seriously, Fox or not.
It sounds like they did, but I was it was an obvious joke.
Anybody really expect McConnell to make the pitch and for Obama, yeah, Mitch, you have an idea there.
All I gotta do is let the DOJ indict Hillary and you'll give me the nominee.
That's right, Mr. President.
So here's how it ended up being discussed on the five on the Fox News Channel.
Yeah.
Rush is right.
This is this is Obama gaming.
So Obama's not going to take that deal, right?
Indict Hillary.
We'll give him a good one.
That's Russia.
Right?
Fine, Garland.
Serve up Hillary.
I don't I I wouldn't even take that deal.
That was that was Juan Williams laughing as though uh Edon said he thought it was a good one.
Okay, we got our phones back.
So here's Susan in Thousand Oaks, California.
I appreciate that uh you waited during that little interruption.
Great to have you here, Susan.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
Listen, in my opinion, the only difference between Trump and Hillary Clinton is that Hillary has bigger hands.
I How long have you been waiting to say that?
Well, listen, I'm a never Trump voter.
I just cannot uh tolerate the idea of voting for him.
I think they're both opportunists, and I don't think it really matters.
People like to s to scream and say, hey, if you uh if you vote for for uh Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, well, hold it.
You said both are operating you mean Hillary and Trump are opportunists?
Oh, sure.
Yeah, they're opportunists.
I mean, look, Trump has changed his political affiliation five times.
He just barely became a Republican again.
I I just don't think we can believe a word that he says.
He does whatever he needs to to further himself.
You know, And so does Hillary.
They're both opportunists.
So how do you trust either of them?
Okay.
So given that you're passionate about this and w where do you come down on it?
I mean it it the the the numbers are what it they are.
The math is what it is.
Uh Trump's at six hundred some odd Ted Cruz is a couple hundred behind.
Everybody is waiting to see I heard the Trump people say on TV today that if they win Arizona next week it's over.
Uh well I m my hope is that uh Cruz will team up with Kasich and and that we can get that full vote of the never Trump people.
Case that's did you say Kasich Cruz team up with Kasich what about Rubio?
Well I loved Rubio.
I I thought he was a class act.
I thought he was a good person but I don't think that he can bring to the table what they need.
Um I don't think he could bring Florida to the table but I think he could bring Oh I think Case it could bring Ohio and plus if Trump were to get uh team up with Kasich I think we're in trouble because I think Kasich will team up with anybody and if if Trump teamed up with Kasich then I think we'd be in trouble.
Okay, I know you're passionate about this and I know you're you stridently oppose Trump.
Tell me and you've thought about it.
I don't mean to be putting you on the spot.
Look I realize you're a caller, a host ask you to do something and you might you might don't don't get nervous.
I'll you got plenty of time here.
What do you think the best way?
I know you just said go out and hook up a Kasich but what are the odds that that Cruz can do this.
Do you think he can do it before the convention?
I think if he teams up with Kasich I think he can do it before the convention.
That you know I I think he can because I think I I think people that are voting for Trump have really not vetted him.
Just like just like everybody fell after Obama he wasn't vetted.
Do you realize that the press as soon as Trump becomes the nominee that they're gonna jump on all of his mafia connections that he pretends don't exist.
I mean you know the whole connection with Seder that everybody just ignores um uh you know that they're gonna jump on everything.
They're holding back the the BBC um uh documentary until he becomes a nominee and then they're gonna trash him.
W why are we not vetting him now before he becomes our nominee?
Uh well I by vetting him I mean there's there's plenty of negative stuff out there about Trump already you have you have a conservative group that is thinking of splintering off and going third party and they're being quite open about their problems with Trump.
I mean I we've had people call here and echo the things you've said about Trump's uh supposed relationship and association with mafia and and uh other things.
I mean it's not well I I the the thing is is that everybody just keeps tiptoeing around it.
I don't think it's supposed it at all.
It's it's it's I mean there's pictures of him with with Seder who has Mafia ties and he was his senior advisor and yet Trump still pretends like oh I barely know him I wouldn't even recognize him.
How how do we let him get away with saying stuff like that well how did Obama get away with how did Clinton get away with saying stuff like that.
I mean Well and that's the that's the whole point.
I I mean we sit and sit back and say why did we not vet Obama and and we had a disaster on our hands.
Why are we we did vet Obama I did I was blue in the face trying to tell people who the real Barack Obama was and it didn't matter did it?
Well, you know, that's true, but how do we, you know, there's the big question.
Why do people just fall behind these charismatic people?
Okay, now, Susan, if I may get, I don't mean to be a little frustrated here because I'm not, but I have spent more time, I think, on this program than anywhere else combined seriously trying to explain to people why Trump has his supporters, who the supporters are, why they support Trump, and...
what is and what isn't what are what aren't the ways to separate Trump's supporters from him and I'm here to tell You, this is not the first time.
All of the negatives that you come up with about Trump are not going to separate Trump's supporters from him.
It's only going to secure the support even tighter.
It's gonna it it's gonna expand his support.
In fact, it's well, you know, my my position, my feeling is is that one of the ways that we should separate people from their supporters is, and and I hate to say this, but you have to um lower the the respect level by mocking them.
And and that's you know, that's where I come up with the the only difference between Trump and Clinton is that Hillary has bigger hands.
I mean, he hates that, and we have to mock him and and take the respect um uh factor out of it.
Because I mean, think about it.
Dredge got up there and put pictures of old pictures of of uh Rubio in the the big chair to mock him.
And and that's I mean, you know, he's been completely ignoring Trump and all the places you could mock him on that.
I mean, the whole fake stake thing.
Why do you think that is?
Why do you think that Judge is in the tank?
But why?
Why is Drudge in the tank?
Well, that's a good question.
Maybe uh, you know, for access, maybe Trump has uh has promised him something.
Who knows?
Um, you know, that but I mean, definitely all you got to do is read Dredge and see all the attacks that he does on all the other candidates, and he completely ignored the whole fake stake uh infomercial that Trump did.
The fake stake infomercial.
You mean for Trump stakes?
Yeah, that his pretend Trump stakes that were really Bush brothers' stakes.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know, I maybe maybe it's worth delving back into this.
Uh I we mocked Obama here.
We mocked Reverend Wright.
The we have had more success mocking and making fun of the Clintons than I can tell you.
And she's still the Democrat front runner, and she is going to be the Democrat nominee, no matter what.
They have decided that this is this is her turn.
You know, the the mystery of why people support candidates.
If there's somebody that could ever figure this out, if there were this magic way to create support for a candidate, whoever came up with that would be determining who is president every year, and would be a multimillionaire, that'd be the only consultant anybody would want to hire.
But that person doesn't exist because that methodology hasn't yet been discovered.
The definitive explanation for why candidates are supported by people.
I ask myself every year, even in this primary process.
I asked myself, why were people supporting Ben Cars?
They knew he had no prayer, but they still stood with him.
Why were they supporting Kasich?
They knew he had no prayer.
I look at all these conservative voters.
Why didn't they realize months ago the only hope and prayer they had was Ted Cruz?
Why did they hold out for so long and not unify?
Why did the they know going in, every conservative worth his salt knows going in that the trick is to divide the conservative vote against the moderate that's in the primaries?
You divide the conservative vote, you just you divide the conservative money.
This was Jeb Bush's uh strategy.
Soak up all the money, have all kinds of conservatives running against him, split the vote, split the money, win the war of attrition, even if you don't win a majority of votes, all the other conservatives combined, if you add them up or the majority, but they don't get it because they're divided.
Why did so many people on the conservative side not decide long ago to unify around one person, everybody else get out, support that guy.
If somebody can answer this question for me, I mean I've got my own theories.
But somewhere in here you're going to have to admit the concept of self-interest.
Why is John Kasich running around, acting like he can actually win this thing?
Why is John Kasich still in this thing when it's the Cruise people desperately wanting a one-on-one with Trump to put into play the theory that there are more anti-Trump votes than pro-Trump votes Remaining in these primaries.
The theory being that all we need just one conservative against Trump, and we'll find out that conservative is going to win every primary, isn't that the theory?
You can ask these questions until the cows come home.
You can find people to get mad at.
You can get upset.
You can think people don't see it the way you do, and uh maybe they're not as patriotic or as uh focused as you think they should be, but you can't take self-interest out of this.
You can't take ego out of it.
You can't take out of the fact that all these people want the prize, think they are the best qualified to do it.
Who knows?
Um at some point you you deal with what you get.
You know, remember Rome selled the problem he got it.
He said, You well, you go to war with the army that you have.
Remember the hell he caught for saying that.
I, as the mayor of Realville, completely understood it.
Everybody else was out there having cows.
Anyway, uh Susan, I appreciate your time.
I'm glad you spent so much time on the phone with me here.
thoughts.
We have to take a time out again, do that, and continue after this.
It's Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh would have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Here's Levi in Jackson, New Jersey.
Great to have you, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Russ, for taking my call.
You bet.
Um, two quick points.
Um I I'm not sure how come this has not been discussed, but it almost seems to me that um John Kasich is in this race with Trump to prevent Cruz from taking it to a one-on-one against Trump.
And he was offered something because once it's a one-on-one against um Cruz against Trump, he's gonna have to debate him, and he's gonna, you know, he's gonna be able to lay out his policy, uh, how he's different, and he'll be able to win.
So Kasich, it's almost seems like is a spoiler for Cruz, and Trump wants him in that race, and who knows?
Maybe Trump wanted him to win Ohio, that way he could keep him in, because without winning Ohio, there would have been no justification for him to stay in.
That wouldn't have mattered.
He would have stayed in.
I'm convinced he would have stayed in.
For my own reasons.
What's the other point you wanted to make?
Oh, the other point I wanted to make is, you know, um, it's actually two more points.
Um it's just amazing how all these I don't understand how these conservatives are teaming up with the establishment, you know, to take down Trump.
I'm a cruise supporter, but they're all teaming up, you know, with the establishment when these establishment people have been suppressing the conservative movement for years.
It's just amazing how they would be, you know, they would be teaming up with their own worst enemy.
It's it's just mind-boggling.
And what I simply don't understand is how come Cruz is not, you know, why can't um there has to be some way for Cruz to get out his message without all these meetings and and and with Paul Ryan and how to stop Trump.
That's not gonna, it's it's not gonna happen that way.
Okay, what's the other thing?
I'll get to those when we're running out of time here.
And the real reason I took your last article about John, John Podore that he basically said in a nutshell that Trump is the Avenger.
It has nothing to do with that.
People feel unshackled.
Trump gives them a voice.
And not only is he their voice, but he is he enabled them to to actually voice what they've been their frustrations for years when he unshackled them.
They're finally able to say all those things that they wanted always been say, but couldn't because they're racist, or then they're bigots or or whatnot, and they're finally able to express themselves.
He's he's giving them he's he's he's he's he's taking away their shackles.
That is, it has nothing to do with, you know, oh, yeah.
Well, let me look.
Let me let me react to this.
I've only got 30 seconds here, and I I I want to react.
He's he mentioned J. Jumpinorts.
I shared with you a piece from Padorchester.
Pedro's is one of the latest to weigh in on what the hell is going on here?
Who are these Trump supporters?
Why are they supporting Trump?
Because it doesn't compute with establishment.
And he came up with a theory.
And his theory is that it's not about making America great again.
It's not about trade deals.
You Trump supporters, it isn't about making America great, because you know Trump can't do that, he says.
Trump ain't gonna make it change anything.
All Trump is to you is a punisher.
You are supporting Trump because Trump's gonna go out and get even with these people that have made life miserable for you.
He's gonna get even with the banks, he's gonna punish China, he's gonna punish Muslims, he's gonna punish Mexicans, he's gonna get even with the people who've been screwing you.
That's his theory bottled down to its essence.
Uh gotta take a break, but we'll continue on this path we get back.
I said I would elaborate on the Pedoret's theory yesterday.
We'll do that.
We get back from the break here and continue on with open line Friday.
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