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Nov. 15, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 15, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hi, folks, how are you doing?
I've been looking at the election results in even greater detail.
And I'm here to tell you that the defeat the Democrat Party suffered this election, and you add it to 2014, and the midterms in 2010, it's even more devastating than I thought yesterday and last Friday, and you know I've spent a lot of time delving into it.
It just massive.
How shellacked the Democrat Party is.
And it was not just, I mean, the the election on last Tuesday, uh week ago today, that was you could call it the icing on the cake and a nuclear bomb, I don't care what, but it would be even before last Tuesday, the Democrat Party was disappearing.
And it just, you know, it it it just amazes me the illusion that was created that hid that from everybody, even though it was right in front of us.
We knew it.
We knew they were losing seats in the midterm elections, but because of Obama's approval rating and the illusion created by the media that the Democrats were ascending, we were convinced to ignore what we were watching.
We were convinced to ignore what we saw.
But I'm not gonna let that happen again.
I'm gonna stay focused on this because this defeat.
Do you know how many states in this country now have a Republican governor or Democrat governor, Democrat legislature?
Take a guess.
How many states, there are 50 for those of you, not 57, there are 50 states.
How many of those states have a Democrat governor and Democrat state legislature?
The number is five.
However, it's actually four.
In Connecticut, there is a tie in the state Senate there.
And the tiebreaker goes to the Democrats in that case.
But in in uh in real numbers, there are four states that have a legitimate, without using a tiebreaker, Democrat governor and Democrat state legislature, and they are Rhode Island and Hawaii, both states you could put in a thimble, and Oregon and California.
That's it.
Connecticut is number five if you if you count the tiebreaker.
Now, what constituted this defeat or what led to it?
The Democrats are doing their post-mortems on this right now, and folks, 2002 is repeating itself.
And the media is in full fledged BS mode.
Remember the story we had yesterday that the uh Trump campaign had no idea that they had to staff the West Wing.
Remember the story we had yesterday that Trump had no idea that 4,000 jobs had to be filled, and that and that uh Trump was going to rely on Obama to help.
Do you realize that story is a totally made-up lie?
We're just gonna have to start assuming this when every story in the drive-by media in the New York Times has now come out and said that they essentially are going to be the voice of the opposition.
They are once again throwing journalism aside, throwing it overboard in favor of being a loyal opposition.
We're just gonna have to steal ourselves here.
And the the first, the default reaction to any media story that has anything incredulously stupid, dumb, or negative about Trump is to not believe it, folks.
That has to become our default position.
The default position cannot be, wow, that's incredible.
Wow, man, if that's true.
That and then go look for it.
The default position, to be intellectually honest with ourselves, has to be rejection.
Because it is still in full swing.
The media is doing everything they can to cast the Trump election as a mistake, as a temper tantrum, as uh as an oddity, and it is anything but that.
It is substantive.
This was an ideological election.
They're trying to say it was a change election.
And by change election, they mean the voters just wanted something different.
And it's a cyclical thing, the analysts tell us.
Yeah, they just got tired of seeing the same faces and they want to Go a different direction.
And don't you believe that either?
This was the continuation of the people of this country rejecting liberalism and its sponsors who happen to be a Democrat Party.
There is no if and or but about it.
There's no maybe, there is no possibly.
It is a definite repudiation and rejection of everything liberal, including President Obama, who I watched a little bit of his press conference today with the Prime Minister in Greece.
I gotta be very careful here.
Our president is in a sad, sad state of denial.
And if you were here yesterday, you heard me describe the precarious balance that our nation finds itself in the next two months.
Because we have a president who has been rejected fully and thoroughly, who is in denial about it, does not accept that.
In fact, he thinks that he was not even on the ballot.
He thinks that what he has done and what he stands for was not even on the ballot, that Hillary didn't work hard enough, that right-wing media didn't get the facts straight, uh, and that the Republicans lied their teeth off, and so it didn't it didn't have anything to do with him.
I mean, if the denial here is overwhelming.
But it may be that we want that because of the precarious balance we have these next two months.
I mean, we have a thoroughly rejected party that still controls all the levers of power.
So it's walking a bit of a tightrope here.
I'll play the audio sound bites of Obama coming up, and you you can uh you can judge yourself.
But I just want to again establish and have it said without any doubt whatsoever, this was an ideological election, and it was the third such ideological election where liberalism was repudiated and sent packing.
And by liberalism, I mean the policies of Obama that that were rooted in the expansion and growth of government.
That's what was sent packing, and that is ideological.
If it has anything to do with big government, trade deals, Obamacare, immigration, whatever it was that the Democrat Party was seen as standing for was totally repudiated.
Liberalism was rejected like never before, and this needs to be taught.
There are people on the winning side, people who voted for Trump, who need to hear.
It's a it's a teachable opportunity, learning opportunity, teachable moment.
Has to be done very carefully, because most people are not by nature ideological.
One of my often stated, not complaints, but uh if I could change anything, it would be a massive education about liberalism, so we wouldn't have to go through this ever again because it ends up always being rejected.
Woodrow Wilson was rejected, FDR after a while, LBJ.
Uh some of them never even got a chance, like McGovern, Jimmy Carter.
It always ends up being rejected.
Now you might say, well, conservatism is too.
I would I would say no to that because the only real conservative president we've had is Reagan, and he won two landslides, and he would have won a third had he been on the ballot.
But liberalism is rejected, and it's not just because people grow tired of faces, and not because people want to see something new and want to see change.
It is specific.
We have three elections to document it here.
The Democrats are now out there claiming they get it.
They understand, or they're in the process of understanding.
They understand that they have ignored flyover country.
They understand they have ignored the white working class vote.
They understand.
They did all this on purpose.
They did all of this strategically.
They threw in with a coalition of minorities, cultural and political minorities.
And they banked on the fact that there would be a winning majority with that approach, and there isn't.
And that is heartwarming to realize as well.
The protesters, by the way, it has been stated by me, because I know it.
I have no doubt about it.
I found the ads on Craigslist, but now it's been documented.
Protesters in Oregon who have been paid to protest didn't even vote.
In Oregon or anywhere else, a whole slew of them have been interviewed and investigated.
They didn't even vote, and yet they're out there protesting the outcome of an election.
They're bought and paid for.
In some cases, they're being paid $1,500 a week.
Some cases $12 to $18 a day.
Some cases 24-7.
We have lived a mirage.
We've been living as the objects of delusion for the last eight years.
The depth of this defeat, five states with Democrat governor and Democrat state legislatures.
Do you realize the meaning of that?
You realize the power that has been lost has been rejected by voters all over this country.
Five states, and it's actually four.
If you throw out Connecticut because it only wins as it because of a tie in the Senate with Tiebreaker.
But it's just incredible.
2010, we saw it.
900 seats in the 2010 election, 700 more seats in the 2014 election.
We add to it that the media making up the fact that Trump didn't know you had to staff the West Wing.
That Trump needed Obama's assistance, made up stories.
They're actually the result of leaks.
People like like the like the Trump kids demanding or Trump demanding security clearance for his kids.
Grab soundbite number 22.
Carol Kellyanne Conway was on Fox and Friends today.
Ainsley Earhart said, We're getting reports that the Trump team seeking top security clearance for the children.
I want to know if that's true.
That was an informal question that was posed by someone.
It doesn't sound like it was a formal request.
And again, somebody leaked it.
I don't know if to embarrass or stir up trouble.
But look, the Trump children will be very supportive of their father and his presidency.
Right.
Um, it's understandable that Trump would want security clearances for them because he wants their counsel.
He wants their advice.
They have been advising him throughout, and not only here, but in his businesses.
It makes total sense.
And again, the people that were reject this are people from the old school who have the existing playbook that the establishments used, and if it's not in there, well, then you can't do it.
I mean, there's so many great things that have happened in this election.
The whole donor class had it thrown back in their face.
The professional political consultants class, they had it thrown right back in their faces.
And they were so much of what was wrong on the Republican side by refusing to treat the Democrats as the opposition.
Anyway, that's old ground.
I want to plow new ground, and there is continuing new ground with the depth of this Democrat defeat.
I want you to think now about all that you heard before the election regarding Trump and demographics and how it all added up to he had no prayer.
Let's review, and not everything, but let's touch some of the high points.
I don't care where you went.
You could go to Fox News, you go to CNN, MSNBC, you can go to ABC, NBC, CBS, you could go to New York Times, Washington Post.
Wherever you went, they told you that Trump was going to lose big with women.
Women, they were not going to put up with Trump.
Particularly educated, college-educated white women, didto Hispanics.
There was no way Trump had come down the escalator at Trump Tower, and he'd called illegal aliens from Mexico rapists and murderers, and they weren't going to put up with that.
And besides, because women all vote alike, we were told, and Hispanics all vote alike.
They're all monolithic thinkers.
They all think alike, all women do, and all Hispanics all think alike, and they all vote alike.
And they were all universally said to hate and despise Trump.
And even on election night.
Noted experts on Fox News kept reminding us of the late voting and early voting Hispanic population.
That was way, way up, and it spelled doom for Trump, and all of this was stated with a smile on the face by the various analysts and strategists and commentators and pundits who were treating us to their expertise.
Not only that, blacks, oh man, it was gonna be brutal.
African Americans just hated Trump because they loved Obama and they loved Hillary, and all women didn't matter what race, didn't matter sexual orientation.
Women were totally all on board and devoted to the idea of the first female president.
All of them.
Break that glass ceiling.
Even Hillary schedules her election night victory at the Jabit Center that has a glass ceiling.
I mean, it was it was never ending.
I'm sure you remember all of it.
I'm sure that you believed some of it.
I'm sure that some of it alarmed you.
Because on the surface, it seemed to make sense.
I mean, Trump was out there, they had the access Hollywood video, they had all of this.
But you want to hear some actual demographic results as compared to 2012.
Well, I have them right here, my friends, in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
By the way, Brian has added a thicker stock of paper to the printer, which helps me, by the way, in separating pages, but it has a different sound.
Not that different.
But anyway, by demographic, men versus women in 2012.
Well, no, let's go with this year first.
In 2016, Trump got 54% of the male vote up 5% from 2012.
And I know numbers are hard to follow, but try, folks.
This is the gender demographic breakdown.
2016, Trump 54% of the male vote, an increase of 5% over Mitt Romney.
Trump got 42% of the female vote.
That is minus 1% from 2012.
That's nothing.
Trump was not supposed to get over 20% of the female vote.
That's what polling told us.
That's what the experts and the analysts told us.
But Trump got 42% of the female vote.
Race.
Trump got 1% additional white vote over 2012.
But in the black vote, Trump added 7% more black support this year than in 2012.
Trump plus eight Hispanic votes this year versus 2012.
So white black Hispanic, Trump increased Republican votes by seven to eight percent.
Not supposed to happen.
Age.
Supposed to come out in draw of it just for Hillary, just gonna bury Trump.
Trump got 5% more votes in 2016 than Romney got in 2012 in the 18 to 29 demographic income.
I've got to take a break.
I just looked at the clock.
But this is pretty much it.
Everything they told us where Trump was gonna die demographically just didn't happen.
In fact, for the most part, Trump improved over Republican performance Romney in 2012.
The bottom line here, ladies and gentlemen, is this election is a mandate election, unlike elections we have seen in the past.
There aren't many like this.
This there's no doubt about this.
There is no way the Democrats, they're gonna try, and the media's trying to spin this as an accident as a temper tantrum or whatever.
But don't fall for this.
I want you people to be up.
I want you to be happy, I want you to be confident, I want you to understand that you're in the majority and you're winning, and you never were in the minority, and this is a golden opportunity, the likes of which nobody expected, and that we haven't seen in a while.
And it was a mandate election.
Trump has a mandate.
Everything that we have undergone, every penalizing and punishing policy that we've been subjected to for the last eight years was sent packing.
It was rejected.
It is a mandate election.
And I also been doing a lot of thinking about the Donald Trump that we're seeing now.
I alluded to some of it yesterday when I told you what I really thought was going on away.
Trump's dealing with Obama, say at the Oval Office, or praising Obama as a great guy, or what have you.
And it's about a number of things, but among them at the top is that Trump knows we're precariously balanced as a nation.
The people that lost this election are devastated and in stages of denial and anger that makes them volatily dangerous, and they still hold the levers of power.
So there will be nothing done to provoke them.
My theory, I think nothing will be done to provoke them.
Trump knows that his presidency begins on January 20th, not before.
I mean, he can name his cabinet, do some things in that nature.
Transition team, announce various intentions, but biding time here publicly and advancing the ball behind the scenes is the agenda, is what's taking place here.
And there'll be some tolerance for media doing this or that.
It's all about getting to January 20th, folks.
And then it's Katie Bar the door.
Then it's lookout.
And you sit tight, we got more coming up.
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Here are some hard numbers for you.
What has happened to the Democrats under Barack Obama's presidency?
If you want to know what the Barack Obama legacy really is.
Since Obama became president in 2008, the Democrats have lost 11 seats in the Senate.
They have lost 60 seats in the House of Representatives.
They have lost 14 governorships.
And as I previously stated, there are only four states in this entire country where the Democrats control the governorship and the state legislature.
Only four out of 50.
Since Obama became president, the Democrats have lost 900 state legislative seats all across the country.
They have lost mayor's offices.
They have lost city council.
I mean, it's all the way down the ballot.
This repudiation is deep and it is specific.
It's why Trump has a mandate.
It is a rejection of what Barack Obama stood for.
It is a rejection of every policy Obama put forth.
It's a rejection of the ideology of Barack Obama.
There's nothing happenstance.
This decimating defeat took place over basically six years.
Obama got a honeymoon the first two years.
And to show you the depth of denial that Obama's in.
Nothing's wrong.
Just have uh oddballs.
Actually, maybe uh cigar smoke causing the sniffles.
There's nothing to worry about.
Everything cool here.
I'm watching Obama in his press conference, joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Greece, who really, you know, Obama would be asked a question, and he would take 10 minutes answering it.
And then they'd go to the Prime Minister of Greece for the follow-up, and he would just kind of throw his arms out and make a facial expression like I have no idea what to say to that, because it was so absent and devoid reality.
Obama said that the reason this election had nothing to do with him.
It had nothing to do with him.
There were a bunch of liars out there in the Republican media and in media at large, and people did not have their facts straight.
He said people loved the repairs made in infrastructure in the past eight years.
I mean, folks, this is this is you know, it's actually not denial.
It's classic Democrat liberalism.
Just lie.
Lie about your accomplishments, lie about your achievements.
What you do is you take your intentions, what you hope to accomplish, what you think you're going to get done, and then you just act like you've done it.
That is liberalism in a nutshell.
You pile all of your hopes and your expectations and your dreams into this little package called It Happened, and then you run around talking about all the great things you did.
He's in Greece talking about all the infrastructure improvements in America and how the American people have great appreciation for him for having done it.
And you watch this, and you ask yourself serious questions about what is this?
Is this denial?
Or does this represent strategy?
I mean, what is this?
Because none of it, none of it was true.
Listen to the New York Times writing about this.
The Democrats, this old buddy Jonathan Martin, he used to be over at Politico.
He said the Democrats' stunning defeat in the presidential race and continued struggles in lower level contests have jolted party leaders into concluding that their emphasis on cultural issues has all but crippled them by diverting voters' attention from the core Democrat message of economic fairness.
Translation, the Democrats got so absorbed in uprooting American culture by letting people of any gender use whatever bathroom they wanted, Gay marriage and all this other stuff, that they forgot their attachment to the quote unquote little guy.
Over President Obama's two terms, writes the Times, Democrats have embraced a down-the-line cultural liberalism that energized his coalition of millennials, minorities, and college-educated whites.
But the growing nationalization of politics and the Democrats drift to the left, doomed a number of candidates.
It goes on and on and on.
And just it gets close, but it doesn't quite get to the real reason all of this happened.
And then there's this.
Now, without rebuking the still popular president personally, there's a growing recognition among many Democrats that Mr. Obama's way may not be the best course in a country where many voters have experienced little income growth and where high-paying jobs can be scarce.
You think you think.
So what happened to the Democrats?
Why did they abandon the quote unquote little guy?
Why did they, and this happened back in November of 2011?
Why did they, and it was actually stated in a column in the Washington Post as campaign strategy for the upcoming 2012 campaign.
They announced that they were going to abandon the pursuit of the votes of the white working class in America.
Thomas B. Edsall wrote the piece.
Why would they do this?
One answer, one name, Barack Hussein Obama.
The people the Democrat Party abandoned are the people Obama doesn't like and the people Obama blames for America being the way it is.
Racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, the bitter clingers, white working class Americans.
And Obama took his party to where he believed the victims of white working class Americans were wallowing away in misery and obscurity.
And that would be minority populations of one type or another.
Basically, what you have when you have an angry, irritated community agitator and community organizer as chief executive.
And this man remains the titular head of the Democrat Party, by the way.
And he's going to see to it that he does.
He's not leaving Washington.
After his presidency, he's going to stay there.
He's going to be the face.
He's going to be the top dog in the Democrat Party.
He's going to be on TV rejecting, stopping, obstructing whatever Trump tries to do.
Make book on it.
It's going to happen.
He's going to do it from his only venue of experience, and that's community organizing and agitation.
So we may be looking at four years.
We might now have an actual new big, as in big protest.
Big protest might become a never-ending, ongoing movement bought and paid for by the Democrat Party, made to look organic and natural.
This is what community agitators do.
It's what community organizers do.
They get people riled up and protesting.
And where they don't do it on their own, they pay for it.
They hire them to go do it.
And that's going to be the titular head of the Democrat Party.
And as long as that happens, the Democrat Party is going to continue to lose elections big.
That's why I say it's it's uh incumbent on as many people as in a position to do so to explain to people what you don't like about America is liberalism.
What you voted against, that's what liberalism is.
When you hear us describe liberals and liberalism, it's what you just rejected.
It's what you just repudiated.
Liberalism is what happened to your health care.
Liberalism is what happened to your economy.
Liberalism is what happened to open borders and integration.
Liberalism is what happened to the education of your kids.
Liberalism is what happened that put this country into decline.
The thing is, you need to understand it was on purpose.
Liberals did what they did on purpose.
It wasn't because they thought it would make America great.
It wasn't because they thought it would make America greater because they don't believe America deserves to be great.
Their protest signs even say so.
Colin Kaepernick even says so.
America never has been great as far as he's concerned.
And to the Democrat Party and your average ordinary liberal and leftist around the world, America has never been great, but furthermore, doesn't deserve to be, because of all of the mistakes America has made since its founding.
And those are basically cultural.
They are racism, sexism, bigotry, discrimination, all of that.
America deserves to be in decline.
The powerful in America deserve to pay the price unless they are aligned with Democrats as cronies, and then they will be exempted.
So Wall Street was exempted, big bank was exempted, a certain big retail was exempted.
But if you weren't crony-aligned with the Democrat Party, you were going to feel the full force of the power of the federal government.
America, as far as liberals are concerned, doesn't deserve to be great.
It deserves to be in decline.
That is the only way, in their view, that the grievance industry can get justice.
Social justice mandates that America be in decline because that's the only way the guilty can be punished.
And with liberalism, it's about punishing.
It's not about rewarding, it's not about elevating, it's not about raising people.
It's not about taking people from the lower middle class to the upper middle class and beyond.
Liberalism is about punishing achievers, punishing success, and blaming them for the plight that everybody else is in or feeling.
And by that definition, the country must be in decline.
It's no different than liberals telling you they're going to go raise taxes on the rich, and you saying, well, how's it going to help me?
And the liberals not going to help you, but it's going to punish the people who have been taking your money.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Well, you go, you punish them then.
Damn right, you go punish him.
But understand now it's not going to elevate your standard of living.
Yeah, that's fine, that's fine.
You punish him.
I'll feel better.
That's liberalism.
America deserves To be in decline.
America never was great and doesn't deserve to be great the way it was founded and the way it's constituted.
America deserves to be punished.
That's Barack Obama.
That's his agenda.
That's what was rejected because a majority of Americans doesn't buy into that at all.
And all of these eight years, such a shame.
It's nothing more than it's a shame how many of us were on the verge of believing we'd lost our country and that we were vastly outnumbered.
And that we had lost the country to them to this.
But it wasn't true, and it isn't true.
America came through.
PJ Media at every level of government, the Democrat Party is dead.
They do not deserve to be revived by a Republican Party feeling guilty, magnanimous, or even obsessed with the notion of unity.
The way to achieve unity is not by incorporating a little bit of what the Democrats want with our agenda.
The way to achieve unity is not by reaching out to the protesters and saying, what can we do to make you happier?
The way to achieve unity here is to firmly and finally establish that we are a growth nation that is devoted as our founding proclaimed to liberty and freedom and the pursuit of happiness for everybody.
And you are more than welcome to join us as we head back in that direction.
But we're not going to incorporate what you have believed as a means of being fair, as a means of being nice.
It's too serious.
This has been the Republican Party's problem.
With every victory came a certain amount of guilt and a desire to almost apologize for the victory by including Democrats in whatever we were going to do.
Now, you might be noticing the Republican leadership not doing anything like that right now.
They're in a big meeting today, first press conference.
They're all wearing Make America Great hats.
They're wearing Trump hats.
These guys are fired up like I've never seen them.
They're enthused like I've never seen them.
They're out there, they're ready to roll up their sleeves, they're ready to get going today to implement the Trump agenda.
Why?
What's changed?
Not why, why they change.
I can answer that if you want, but I think I'm going to take a brief time out because I must.
We'll come back and uh I'll decide whether we get to your phone calls or go off of other things.
Sit tight, my friends.
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Looky here, my friends.
Eugene Robinson, columnist Washington Post.
He also, I don't know if he still is, back in the days where we did not have our ban on audio from MSNBC.
He was a regular panelist there, a strategist, a Democrat hack disguised as a columnist for the Washington Post.
And the headline of his column that published yesterday, I do not wish Trump success on his agenda.
I haven't seen any angry tweets about this.
I haven't seen anybody castigating Eugene Robinson for daring to suggest that he can't get behind and support our new president like we were told we had to do in 2008.
I said I hope he fails.
I got hammered by the drive-bys for eight years.
But don't worry, I'm not complaining.
Don't misunderstand.
I enjoyed it.
Every time I got hammered, it was an opportunity to explain to a new group of people what I really meant.
And now, after eight years, everybody agrees with me.
I hope he fails.
He didn't, and that's why he's been sent packing.
He succeeded in implementing his agenda.
That's what I didn't want to happen.
Eugene Robinson essentially says, I hope Trump fails.
And nothing.
Crickets.
Not a tweet, not a series of Facebook posts.
Nobody in the drive by media raking Eugene Robinson over the calls for this kind of partisan divide.
He says the people chose Hillary Clinton, but it's the electoral vote that counts, not the popular vote.
So Donald Trump will be president.
No, I'm not over it.
No one should be over it.
If a normal Republican had been elected, I could say the polite and socially acceptable thing, something like I didn't support so and so, but he'll be my president too, and I wish him success.
But I can't wish Trump success in rounding up and deporting millions of people or banning Muslims or here we can these people believing literally while not taking seriously.
Anyway, Eugene Robins, I do not wish Trump success on his agenda.
And he's being hailed as brilliant and precise and all this.
What does he mean if a normal Republican had been elected?
What is a in in Eugene Robinson's world, what is a normal Republican?
A Washington General's Republican, a Republican that realizes there is a pincushion, a Republican who realizes there, he's there to be beat up and destroyed, a Republican who realizes he has no business being president, should not have been elected, a Republican who's basically a rhino and a loser.
Everybody on the Democrat side can get behind that kind of Republican, but not a winner.
Look, folks, I'm pretty sure I know what Trump is doing, why he's doing what he's doing and what it is.
If I tell you, and if I'm right, all I'm doing is alerting the opposition to it, which would not be good.
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