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Dec. 5, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
32:06
December 5, 2016, Monday, Hour #3
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What's that?
No, no, no.
No doubt in my mind.
No, no, no.
The Jill Stein recount is Hillary Clinton.
It's the Clinton campaign.
The people bought and paid for to disrupt Trump's rallies.
The Clinton campaign.
Why is Jill Stein not recounting votes for her?
She's the Green Party candidate.
And she's concerned with the vote totals for Hillary.
There's no question Hillary's behind this.
There's no question the Democrats are behind it.
And look, folks, there's no question either that they have a dream.
The dream would be upsetting Trump and having some magic happen so that he doesn't win the electoral college and that Hillary does.
That's just a way, way out there, nothing more than a pipe dream.
What they're really in the process of doing is delegitimating everything about Trump, delegitimizing the election and his upcoming administration.
That's exactly what they're doing.
That's all they know.
That's what they did after Bush in Florida in 2000.
That's the only thing they know to do after they lose an election.
Pure and simple.
Because they didn't lose.
They were not, even though they had been repudiated totally, even though they have been sent packing, their agenda, the Barack Obama agenda, has been totally repudiated.
Big government.
This wasn't an ideological election.
Big government was sent packing.
Administrative big in the way.
Government was sent packing.
But they can't admit that, and they will not admit that to themselves.
They lost because Trump's a liar.
They lost because the voters are stupid.
They lost because whatever reason they want to concoct, but it's not because of them or their policies.
And the way they will march forward is to do everything they can to delegitimize the results of the election and what comes from it.
So the election itself gets delegitimized, i.e.
with the recount.
If they can change Trump's electoral count, that'd give them an ass uh uh faux paw.
That would give them a leg up in what they could claim is an illegitimate election, and then his administration.
And to say that he's not got the mandate to do anything that he's doing.
This is not what the people voted for.
The people didn't vote for this, and that's that's all they've got in their arsenal now.
Proof of that is that they leave in leadership positions, Nancy Pelosi, and they're gonna go out and get this guy Ellison to be the head of the Democrat National Committee.
I mean, these people are in a time warp locked and loaded 30, 40 years ago with a playbook that has not been updated since then.
They've got nothing.
It is amazing what one election has demonstrated.
And what has been demonstrated is the gigantic illusion we were all living.
The illusion was that the Democrats and all of their corrupt cultural rot had become the majority of thinking in this country, and that we and our values, our cultural inclinations and desires and our political desires, that had become the minority.
That we were losing the country as founded, that the people of this country no longer wanted the America that was founded.
That was the illusion, and we've lived it for eight years.
How many people called here asking me, Rush as it is?
Is it time to panic?
Have we lost the country?
That was the illusion that was created.
The power of the media coupled with the racial component of a president making any legitimate criticism of him impossible.
It was paralyzed.
The illusion continued.
We were losing the country.
We're in our wit's end about it.
It was panic time for many, many people, and it turns out the Democrat Party and what they believe is not representative of a majority of thought in this country, and really wasn't even close to it.
Now I know some of you well, the popular vote, you can't say this, you gotta be honest.
Now I can say this.
The popular vote, Hillary's advantage in the popular vote comes from California, and California is not America.
I'm talking attitudinally, talking politically.
California, they're talking about recession.
I mean, there's people are kooks out there.
But but California as it exists politically is not in stride with the bulk of the United States.
I'm not saying they should secede or they don't don't infer things I'm not saying here.
But the case can be made.
We were living an illusion in this election, one election.
It was actually three, but we didn't see it.
Well, that's not true.
We saw it, we just it just didn't register.
We saw all the seats of Democrats lost in 2010.
900.
We saw all the seats they lost in 2012.
Obama wins the presidency, but they lost more seats in the House, in the Senate, governorships.
2014, they lost again.
They've down 15, 1600 seats if you go down to the level of mayor.
And then in this election, they lose big.
So it's actually 2010, 12, 14, 16, 4 elections.
So it's been happening right in front of our face, but because Obama and the media appeared to be running the country, uh it didn't seem to matter that we were and couple that with the fact that our party didn't even act like an opposition party, we were living an illusion.
And it took one election to expose it.
Well, the Democrats now know that the illusion is up, and they have become delusional in refusing to admit it.
And the evidence of that is they stick with Pelosi.
You know, the average age stopped.
Now, this is to me a relevant point because the Democrat Party, if you look at people who claim to be Democrats, they're young, they are hip, they're Hollywood types, they're Silicon Valley types, they're techies,
uh many in the performing arts and all of the pop culture aspects that appear to define our national culture, they're all Democrats, and they're mostly millennials, maybe Gen Y. And yet the average age of Democrat leadership in the House and Senate is 76 years old.
The average age.
It's Jurassic Park, folks.
The Democrat Party, but all these young hipsters out there have as its leaders Jurassic Park dinosaurs.
And what interests me about that is that all these young hipsters who constantly run around and talk about how old and tired and fuddy-duty Republicans are, are being led by a bunch of old, tired, fuddy-duty get off my lawn types.
I think it's fascinating what this election is exposed.
It's one of the greatest teachable moments in my life.
You stop and think of the contrast.
Going into the election, how many of you, be honest, how many of you thought this was it?
Hillary wins, they got the Supreme Court.
What's going to be the point?
What's going to be the point?
They're going to continue to muck up the schools.
They're going to own the academy.
They're going to own books, movies, TV shows.
They're going to they're going to continue their assault on religion.
Hillary's going to be president, and everything she believes is cockamami at 180 degrees out of phase.
It's over.
You're figuring it's over for 25 years with the Supreme Court appointments alone that she's going to get, not to mention the judges that they already have at various federal district court levels.
Be honest.
How many of you thought this was it?
I mean, it it the U.S. is we knew it.
Obama's transformation was unstoppable.
On election day.
Now I know many of you today will tell me I knew he's going to win Russia.
I could see it out there.
I saw those crowds.
Yeah, I I agree.
I mean, I was one who thought Trump, I said back in March or April of uh of this year that I could foresee a Trump big win landslide.
But let's face it, most people were scared to death and were praying.
That's how desperate it was.
And here comes the election.
And what does the election expose?
It exposes that every cockamey thing we feared could have happened if they had won.
But one election where they lose exposes just how delicately balanced was their position.
They were actually in a fragile state the left was.
It turns out that their loss, their defeat in this election, is something that's going to give them problems like it would have been ours for years and years and years.
This is not a one-off where they'll get it back in the next midterms and the next presidential.
They've got too much to regroup.
They've got too many seats to re-win.
They've got too much ground to pick up.
They have, because it wasn't just this election that exposed how they have been governing against the will of the people.
It's the last four elections.
And I'm including even the Obama presidential elections, because his vote totals were based on him and him alone.
But his party, he never had coattails, not to speak of.
And they didn't think Trump did, but he ended up having them.
So it's it's just to me, it is an amazing illustration of the delusion we were living and how precariously perched the Democrats have been all this time.
Contrary to being entrenched and unmovable and a climbing, expanding, dominating power.
They weren't that.
That was just the illusion.
And losing, as I say, a bunch of elections, but this presidential election was the tipping point and just demonstrated the dire straits they were actually in.
Here's Al Gore coming out of Trump Tower today.
A uh reporter's asking him questions.
He's in the lobby.
This is the lobby noise microphone.
Here's what he said.
The bulk of the time was with the president-elect Donald Trump.
I found it an extremely interesting conversation and uh to be continued.
And I'm just gonna leave it at that.
Thank you.
I don't, folks, I don't pretend to know here.
The pre-pub on this was that he was going to be meeting with Ivanka to talk about climate change.
Ivanka wants to be the climate change czar in her father's administration.
That worries me to no end.
But I'm reserving all this.
This is we don't know.
Maybe what if he was interviewing Al Gore for Secretary of State?
Well, no, no, wait a minute.
Just hold on a second.
You realize, do you know what they are leaking now?
That Trump is widening his.
So that means, I guess Romney's now gone.
Rudy's off the table.
Uh Petraeus impressed Trump, but now Snowden's trying to sandbag Petraeus.
Have you heard about that?
You haven't heard about that?
Edward Snowden says that the stuff Petraeus revealed, the classified data he revealed in the back and forth communications with his mistress is worse than anything Snowden revealed.
So apparently Romney is now not at the top of the list, which gives people pause.
Well, then what was all this about?
What was dinner?
What was all this about?
And there are two competing thoughts.
And one is that Trump was paying Romney back by making it look like Romney had a chance to be Secretary of State, whining and dining him, giving him all kinds of attention and respect, and never intended to choose him.
This was nothing more than a Trump payback, a public humiliation for Romney.
Some people believe that.
I don't, but a lot of people do.
I think Romney was under serious consideration.
And then Rudy, Rudy was under serious, and Rudy, you can't find any more anybody more loyal.
But you know what the word on Rudy is is that Trump is very unhappy with Rudy that because he'd been publicly campaigning for the gig.
That does not compute with me, folks.
Donald Trump and Giuliani are great friends, and I if if Rudy was doing something that would hurt his chances, Trump would tell him.
He would call it a knock it off, Rudy.
I know you want the gig.
Stop it.
But I didn't even know Rudy was doing that.
Have you gotten the impression Rudy was publicly campaigning, groveling for the job?
Well, that's the Again, this is the scuttle butt.
This comes from somewhere.
It's coming from somewhere inside Trump.
That's what makes this so fascinating.
You just, it's it's great.
Somebody is putting it out there that Trump is has has gone soft on Rudy because it's like Rudy publicly campaigning.
And he's worried about Rudy's uh potential conflicts of interest with Rudy's business times.
Come on.
Trump's got his own in that regard.
That can't be it.
So portray.
Oh, and a new entree, John Huntsman.
You hadn't heard that.
John Huntsman supposed, well, he met with Trump, and it's supposedly about sex state.
Dana Rohrbacher, possibly, but the here's the point.
Last week it was basically two people in the running, right?
It was Rudy and Romney, maybe, maybe, maybe Bolton.
So four people last week.
Now all of a sudden it's ten or twelve.
Rorabacher, John Huntsman, some people theorize he's bringing huntsmen in.
You know, huntsman.
Huntsman and Romney, two powerful Mormon families.
And they don't get along all the time.
And so Trump is bringing in huntsmen to further humiliate Romney.
No, there are some people saying that.
I find it, I've always told you, I find it fascinating to learn how people think, particularly when they get into the conspiracy side of things.
So Trump would bring in Huntsman and have that publicly known just to humiliate Romney.
He wouldn't in any way want Huntsman to be Secretary of State, why Huntsman's got Obama ties.
Which he does.
Wasn't Huntsman an Obama ambassador at some point, Chikoms.
Um Petraeus uh Bolton.
Now, Al Gore, what if he's in the sex state mix?
What if he's in the Secretary of State mix?
I'm gonna tell you something.
If if if Trump goes south on climate change, I am gonna that's just gonna be deeply disappointing and alarming because of what climate change is to the left.
It's everything.
It's everything they want and everything they believe, and it's everything, almost everything they can get to achieve it, to accomplish it.
It's that bad.
That's why I spend so many times, so much so many years on this, trying to persuade people to don't get anywhere near sidling up to this notion of man-made climate change.
It's one of the most bogus hoax scams run on the people of the world.
And it ought to be proven simply by the fact that it originates at the UN.
That's all anybody ought to know or need to know.
Back in just a second, folks.
Hang in there, be tough.
So I get an email during the break.
Mr. Limbaugh, you do this to us all the time.
You said you were gonna play sound bites on Trump in Taiwan, and you didn't.
That's true.
And this is the kind of stuff I end up feeling guilty about.
Let me tell you why.
I fully intended to.
And then we had the Al Gore soundbite, and I played that, and that begot a discussion of what was he doing there.
And that then led into all the things we're hearing about Secretary of State.
And once I I had no intention of even talking about that, but once I got started, you know, I love hearing myself talk, folks.
I mean, you would too if you were right as often as I am.
So I started talking about this stuff, and I'm thinking out loud, and it just kept going.
I didn't intend any of that.
None of that was planned.
I did intend to get into the sound bites on the Taiwan business.
It it just happens.
That's this this program is improv.
It's not structured, it's not planned, and I but I was not purposely misleading you.
Now I'm saying I'm gonna get to them in the next half hour.
But I don't know what's going to happen between now and then.
Not much.
There's not that Much time.
Let's go to the phones.
We'll go back to Austin, Texas.
Jim, great that you called.
I'm glad you waited.
Hello, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Uh I want to know why Dr. Stein keeps telling us that this is about the integrity of the vote.
She suggests that the equipment has been tampered with or some such thing.
Well, if that's the reason for this effort, why are we recounting votes first and not asking these so-called forensic computer experts to explain what they're looking for and what they have found to be able to do?
Because there isn't, they haven't found anything.
Well, precisely.
That's it's a it's a ruse.
And we are not.
This is like somebody starts a rumor that George Bush met with the Iranians to discuss keeping the hostages until after the Reagan Carter election, and there's no evidence.
And the Democrats said it's a serious charge.
We've got to look into it.
Exactly what's happening here.
Yeah, I mean, show me some evidence.
Give us a reason why they're going through this.
There isn't any reason.
It's other they're saying the integrity of balloting.
You know, you get two things here.
You got people that vote, and you got people at count votes.
And they're two different things.
Did you it was the fraud in the way people voted, or is the fraud in the count?
She's not even alleging where the fraud is.
Exactly.
And that's why everyone should be outraged that we're being subjected to this exercise.
Hey, let it happen.
The more that the Democrats do to expose who they are right now, the damn better it is.
Well, it's just how bankrupt their ideas are because this is how they're flailing around out there for sure.
And I have been trying to tell people this for twenty-nine years, and now they're exposing it themselves, and people are seeing who they are.
Look, hang on here, Jimbo, through the break.
I gotta ask you about the iPhone you want before I let you go, so don't go away.
Just hang in there.
Okay, we're back to Jim and Austin.
Uh Jim, iPhone 7 or 7 plus, sir.
The seven plus would be great.
Yeah, okay.
Let me guess the color.
You want black.
Black mat if you have it.
Black mat and what carrier?
ATT.
ATT.
Okay.
You're gonna get an unlocked sim free iPhone, which means it'll work on any carrier.
Do you have an iPhone now?
Yeah, I have an old one of four.
Okay.
So the SIM card in that one's too big for this.
So you'll have to take the new phone and make sure you take the box with it.
It's got all the numbers that they'll need.
Take the take the new phone in the box to ATT with your current phone and tell them you want to move the number to the new phone.
Right.
And they'll do it.
Now they'll look at it, and you might they'll who knows.
This is not an ATT phone.
This is Verizon.
No, you tell them no.
It's a world phone.
You tell them look very carefully and they'll see G S M on the back along with C DMA.
But it's it'll it'll work on any carrier.
It's unlocked from the factory.
You tell them it was a gift and they'll set you up.
Okay?
Right.
That's so so kind of you.
I appreciate it.
You've been interested to you.
Same to you.
Now hang on, so Mr. Snurley, get your address.
You'll have it tomorrow.
Okay, to the audio sound bites.
Now, I want to start with uh last Wednesday.
Go back to something I pointed out last Wednesday on this program.
They're honestly sitting there after having listened to Trump for a year and a half after having watched Trump, or at least they've had the opportunity to assuming he's got no plan.
Well, he most certainly does have a plan, and he's been very clear about it.
He's been very precise about it.
What is it about it that these people don't see?
Why are they not able to listen to what Donald Trump says he's gonna do and believe he means it?
Well, they don't believe it, and they don't believe anybody in their world would ever speak this way, would ever have this kind of an agenda or these kinds of objectives, and so nobody else would either.
No reasonable person could possibly behave like Donald Trump does, not in our world.
What if Trump has no plan?
Well if he's got no plan, his plan is what's behind him running for office.
His plan is to make the country great again.
He had one of the most detailed and lengthy agendas of any candidate I can recall.
And he mentioned his agenda practically every rally.
It's not a mystery.
What Donald Trump's plan is.
And by the way, I was very on the money with this.
His plan is what's behind him seeking the office.
And he's been very clear.
And one of the things he's been clear on is that he thinks the ChICOM are running rings around us, manipulating their currency, getting our trade balance out of whack, messing Around with imports and exports.
He's had China on his mind ever since he got into this campaign.
When he talks about trade, NAFTA, jobs leaving America, he's always got the Chicoms in the mix.
It should not be a mystery to anybody that he would take a phone call from the leader of Taiwan.
So let's go to the audio soundbites.
Drive by is amazed.
At first they said, This is idiotic.
This guy doesn't know what he's doing.
This is so bad.
This is such a faux pas.
This is a this is a humongous mistake.
This is why we didn't want Trump.
This is embarrassing.
We can't possibly have a Doom cough like this.
And then one of the drive-bys posited.
Hey, wait a minute, what if he does have a plan?
And what if this is it?
And now they're panicked like this.
It is reported that they thought long and hard about doing this.
So it was intentional.
Some thought this might have been an inadvertent mistake, but we have learned the Trump transition team spent some time arranging this call.
So this was an intentional sort of challenge.
Whether it was out of ignorance or some plan to send a message to China.
That was intentional.
That wasn't a mistake.
It's a remarkable change.
If it's intentional, I wouldn't think was wise unless you had a detailed plan for what to do next and next.
Do you have any reason to believe that what we just saw with Taiwan and now these tweets about China are part of a thought-out plan?
You hear all those people saying that drive-by people in there, you got the Washington Post, David Ignatius, Bob Carey.
A bunch of people are if chuck Todd, Charlie Rose.
They can't believe it.
And then now the fact that he may be intending to do this, oh, it's even worse.
Now they think he's provoking these big bad Chicons, and who knows they might nuke, oh, this is dangerous.
Oh my God, we've elected Barry Coldwater.
Oh no.
They're in panic city.
But they're really not.
Well, they are, but but not for the reason I they are starting to confront, beginning to confront the reality.
That the guy's serious, that he's smart, and that he meant it.
And that he's the opposite of everything they believe in.
And I think they're now starting to get very, very concerned.
And these tweets are his way of staying on offense.
These tweets are his way of keeping them on defense.
His tweet these tweets are his way of relegating them to irrelevancy.
He's telling them he doesn't need them to get his message out to the American people.
And he said, hey, look, if you people would report honorably and honestly about me, I wouldn't have to do all these tweets.
And Mike Pence said, wait a minute, you're telling me we can't take a call from a Democrat leader in Taiwan, but Obama can get in bed with Castro?
Is that what you're telling us?
That Obama can call every fleabag communist tin-horned dictator in the world and that's great?
And we take a call from a Democrat ally in Taiwan and the world's coming to an end.
And he's right.
Matthew Dowd, Alex Castellanos, debating whether Trump's call was intentional on ABC yesterday.
I don't think it was intentional for Donald Trump to sort of reset the China policy of the United States of America through one phone call.
I think he got a phone call.
It fed his ego, if the President of Taiwan calls him up.
The problem is when you don't have a real fundamental strategy in place.
What is your Far Eastern policy?
What's it going to do to your relationship with North Korea that you need the Chinese for?
What's it going to do on climate change that you need the Chinese for?
And what's it going to do on Iran that you need the Chinese for?
Donald Trump didn't think all those things.
Wait a minute.
That's Matthew Dowd, a former Republican Bush analyst has now gone over to the dark side.
You these questions are amazing.
I don't think it was intentional.
I think Trump doesn't know what he's doing.
It's a one phone call.
He got a phone call.
It's his ego on parade.
The problem is you know fundamental strategy in place.
What's your Far Eastern problem?
The Norks?
Are you kidding me?
The Chaicoms aren't doing a thing to reign in the Norx.
We're demanding that the Chikoms make sure the Norks don't nuke everybody, and the Chicoms are sitting there laughing at us.
They're not going to be anymore.
What's it going to do on climate change?
You need a Chinese.
The Chinese have told climate change to go pfft.
The Chinese and climate change need the Chinese on climate.
From everything we know, Trump doesn't believe in your version of climate change.
We've now got that under advisement.
Well, with Al Gore in and out of there.
We're being very patient on that.
Hang in there be tough.
Iran need the Chinese helped Obama in coming up with a horrible Iran nuke deal.
Which Trump has also honestly said is a bad deal.
If the Chinese facilitated all of this, it's no wonder Trump wants to reverse it.
Here's Alex Castellano's skin report.
We're seeing disruption.
And it's freaking out the news media and the old establishment in Washington.
Guess what?
That's why Donald Trump was elected to do exactly that.
I feel like we're watching Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan.
So do you think the Taiwan call was to liberate?
Yes, I think actually it was.
Apparently his aides were over there at some point.
And uh, you know, it was almost three months ago to the day that China snubbed the president of the United States.
Stop the tank.
That's enough.
Castellano's a former Republican analyst, and he believed that the call was done on purpose, which it was.
There's no doubt about it.
But listen to one more here.
Charlie Rose on CBS today speaking with author, Ian Bremer.
He's also the president of the Eurasia Group.
EURA SI, Europe Asia, your Asia group.
And Charlie Rose said, uh, Ian, it's been reported that they they thought long and hard to Trump people about doing this.
So was it intentional?
Is that your reading of this?
My reading is that there are a few people that are in the transition team around Trump that have been talking to the Taiwanese for some time and love the idea of reaching out.
I don't believe that Trump had the sense personally that by having a phone call as president-elect for the Taiwanese president that he was setting policy.
So if it was intentional, it came from advisers.
Trump has no idea.
This is like Reagan.
Reagan didn't know what was going on.
He was sleeping.
He was dozing.
Jim Baker really running the show, and that's why we could rely on it.
Now they're trying to say, well, yeah, Trump had no idea what he's doing here.
I don't believe Trump had the sense that I have in the call.
He was studying policy.
Trump's so stupid.
I don't think Trump knew.
These guys you watch, I i it's amazing.
These guys are gonna have their heads bitten off.
They're gonna be fully exposed as the arrogant snobs that they are, and it isn't gonna be much longer before it happens.
I'm gonna tell you what's beginning to dawn on these people.
The establishment types, the losers.
The anti-Trumpers.
What's beginning to dawn on them is that he's going to be successful.
And that's got them paranoid.
And that they will not be able to talk us, the general public, out of believing it and accepting it.
They have been able to destroy successful Republican presidents.
It took them five years to destroy Bush, but they were able to do it.
Well, four.
Trump is a different guy.
Trump fights back from the moment it happens and he doesn't allow whatever they say to settle in and start flowering.
He destroys it the minute he hears it or tries to.
And they're not accustomed to this.
They do not have an answer to Trump's tweets.
They only know one way of doing things.
And they are not adaptable, folks.
This is the wonderful thing about the drive-by's.
They're so stuck in the way it's always been done and in routine and the way they've been taught and the narrative here and the narrative there that they don't know how to adapt to this.
So they're just going to keep trying everything that they've always tried in the past that's worked.
And it's dawning on them it might not with Trump.
He's got another rally going to Fayetteville, North Carolina tomorrow.
And it's also it's a thank you tour, but it's also maintaining his relationship with his base.
Call it the continuation of the campaign, which I think, you know, Bill Clinton popularized.
Obama has expanded on it.
And I think now Governance by successful elected officials is going to include a bit of a permanent campaign.
Because it's been shown to work.
Man, no matter where the time goes, but we're out of it.
We have no more remaining today, but that's okay because we're gonna be back here tomorrow, revved and ready and prepared with whatever happens between now and then, and stuff I didn't get to today, like Ken of Ken and Barbie, may actually be gay.
Not sure.
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