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Does It Bother You That Trump Says NATO Is Obsolete?<\/strong><\/p>\n RUSH:\u00a0 Hey, Mr. Snerdley, does it bother you that Trump said that NATO is obsolete? (interruption) It doesn\u2019t bother me, either.\u00a0 I mean, this is what… Trump said that during the campaign.\u00a0 This is nothing unusual or out of the ordinary.\u00a0 Trump said things just like… Trump is amazingly consistent.\u00a0 I think this is one of the things that\u2019s really bothering people.\u00a0 In their world, Trump is so off the wall that they told themselves, “Ah, he doesn\u2019t really mean this stuff” that he\u2019s saying during the campaign.\u00a0 “No way.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t really mean this.\u00a0 If he ever gets elected, he\u2019s gonna get sensible.”<\/p>\n And NATO and the IMF and the World Bank and all of these left-wing… Do not doubt me. All of these organizations have an taken care of by the left.\u00a0 NATO originally might have had a great purpose militarily, national security, but all of these outfits have been taken over by European leftists.\u00a0 NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, is just us.\u00a0 You know, we fund it. We are the defense budget and the military for many European nations, and Trump is thinking, “Why does this still exist?”<\/p>\n This is an example of these outdated things that nobody gets rid of because it\u2019s just the way they are. But if you do a genuine analysis usefulness of these things, it\u2019s not useful any more. It doesn\u2019t serve any real purpose anymore. Plus, we\u2019re getting screwed in the process, which is something that Trump said about NATO throughout the campaign.\u00a0 The fact that he\u2019s being consistent and the fact that they\u2019re slowly coming to realize, “This guy meant what he said.,” means their world has been rocked.<\/p>\n The entire establishment — the world elite establishment — their world has been under upside-down about this election and by Brexit, if I might add, and they\u2019re just beside themselves on how to act and they\u2019re just scared to death that they don\u2019t have the votes in this country to stop Trump.\u00a0 This is fascinating to watch.\u00a0 Just from the flat-out objective observer perch, it is just fascinating to watch this.<\/p>\n All of this is a gigantic teachable moment, the things that people have the opportunity to learn about so many of these institutions that are not helpful to us, that provide launching pads and homes for the worldwide left to mount their campaigns one after another which always have to one degree or another America in the crosshairs.\u00a0 And what we have in Trump is just a real guy. He\u2019s just a real guy who himself has been observing all these things and can\u2019t believe that their usefulness has come and gone.<\/p>\n And yet they\u2019re still there, and they get even more money, and he can\u2019t believe the amount of money wasted by the United States propping up all of these things.\u00a0 The reason it happens is this is how we tell ourselves, “We\u2019re superpower.” This is how we tell ourselves, “We are a world power,” that our fingerprints on all of these different worldwide organizations. Which is fine. I\u2019m all in favor of the U.S. being a superpower. But some of these things are actually being used against us like the World Trade Organization, the International Criminal Court.<\/p>\n All these things have come basically from one department of the United Nations or another, and every one of these things is designed to fleece the United States either of money or power.\u00a0 There\u2019s just no question about it.\u00a0 And you\u2019ve heard people say, “We can\u2019t change that.”\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 “Well, it\u2019s always been this way.”\u00a0 Well, here\u2019s somebody that\u2019s coming along and doesn\u2019t think that that\u2019s relevant.\u00a0 Just \u2019cause it\u2019s been doesn\u2019t mean has to stay.\u00a0 Just because we\u2019ve been doing it — even if it\u2019s bad and mistake filled — doesn\u2019t mean we have to keep doing it.\u00a0 But to these people we do, because it\u2019s their livelihood.<\/p>\n It\u2019s their identity. It\u2019s their way of life, standard of living, any number of things.<\/p>\n Hey, if the Russians did hack… I just play a little game here.\u00a0 Let\u2019s accept the premise.\u00a0 If the Russians did hack, say, the Democrat National Committee computers, and if the Russians did leak the stuff, how did NATO help stop it?\u00a0 Of what use was NATO in protecting the United States?\u00a0 NATO was to protect Europe from Russia, was it not?\u00a0 NATO was to protect Western European democracies from the giant footprint of Soviet communism, ad that\u2019s why Gorbachev and his buddies always wanted to get in.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s why the American left was always eager to let the Russians and the Soviets in.\u00a0 And Reagan constantly said, “No, you\u2019re foolish. We\u2019re not letting \u2019em in NATO or anything else like that.”\u00a0 But the left in this country was pushing for the Soviets and now the Russians to be… Well, I don\u2019t know about Putin now.\u00a0 But what difference would it have made? How did NATO stop whatever it is the left thinks Putin did to screw \u2019em?\u00a0 Not one thing!\u00a0 If NATO\u2019s there to stop Russia and to stop the Soviets… It may not be the best example, but at least it is one.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=”Divider” color=”#60b6d6″ show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on”] [\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Headline #2″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”Oswald|on|||” text_font_size=”22″ background_color=”#61b6d5″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”10|10|10|10″ text_text_color=”#284d61″]<\/p>\n How to Talk About Trump With Your Progressive Adult Children<\/p>\n RUSH: Ran across this story at PJ Media. “How to Talk Trump With Your Terrified Progressive Adult Children.” It\u2019s sort of a how-to column written by a man named Mark Ellis, and it details what may be reality for many American families. You have mom and dad, plus they\u2019re Baby Boomers, and they have kids who have become adults and they\u2019re progressive snowflakes, and they\u2019re literally quaking in their boots in fear over Trump, just like these little snowflakes in college campuses are, and they can\u2019t function.<\/p>\n They\u2019re so out of sorts, they don\u2019t know what to do, and this guy\u2019s run into the circumstance. So he wrote an advice column for parents who have adult children who are uber-progressives or leftists about how to talk to them, “How to Talk Trump With Your Terrified Progressive Adult Children.” Now I, of course, am not presented with this challenge. I have nephews and nieces, but they\u2019re all fine. We have to worry about them. They\u2019re fine. I don\u2019t have adult kids who have become mind-numbed robot leftists. But I read this anyway, and it really is kid gloves. It\u2019s really kid gloves.<\/p>\n I\u2019m thinking, “Is this the way to do it?” And people say, “Yeah, you\u2019ve gotta do it kid gloves. You\u2019ve gotta be very gentle, and you\u2019ve got to be very patient. You can\u2019t just tell them there\u2019s nothing to be afraid of. You can\u2019t tell them they\u2019re acting irrationally or silly or any of that.” And I think back to my dad. My dad… Some of you may have heard me say this. My friends in high school on a Friday night, instead of going out and trying to get illegal beer and stuff, would come over to my house and sit around and try to say anything to get my dad riled up on politics and just get him going.<\/p>\n And then we\u2019d just sit there for hours listening to him warn us about what was gonna happen if we didn\u2019t stop the communists, if we didn\u2019t stop the Democrats. He would say, “You boys, you\u2019re all gonna be slaves. You\u2019re gonna be slaves of these people like Sander Vanocur who was a commie SOB media guy at NBC, Sander Vanocur. “He\u2019s gonna be the first guy the communists come for. All these media people, they\u2019re gonna be the first ones shot down. They think they\u2019re gonna be the best friends of these Soviets? No way.”<\/p>\n He would get going on this stuff and these guys, my friends, would just sit back and listen to it. Now, I can\u2019t imagine a Millennial today surviving it. They would be reduced to tears and running out of the house in the first five minutes, apparently. So this is the way we were taught. This is the way we were told the way of the world. This is the way we were warned and educated, and apparently you just can\u2019t do it that way today with today\u2019s Millennial adults or even older adult progressives if they are your children.<\/p>\n You know, I don\u2019t sit around thinking about this problem much \u2019cause I don\u2019t face it, but I\u2019m fascinated by it. So hopefully today I\u2019ll have a chance to get in some of the advice he gives, and I would love to get your reaction to it, too, at some point.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=”Divider” color=”#60b6d6″ show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on”] [\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Headline #3″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”Oswald|on|||” text_font_size=”22″ background_color=”#61b6d5″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”10|10|10|10″ text_text_color=”#284d61″]<\/p>\n CIA Director Brennan Admits He Voted for a Communist<\/p>\n RUSH: I\u2019m dedicating each day\u2019s program to young Millennials. We know you\u2019re frightened, we know you\u2019re scared, but you need not be. Oh, that reminds me. I was gonna talk about — and I am — John Brennan, CIA, McCain sound bites. But I got a story here. Here it is. I want to get into this. I may not have a chance to get to it today, but I\u2019m gonna try.<\/p>\n By the way, we have Bret Baier of Fox News coming up in a half hour. He has an extraordinary book about Dwight Eisenhower, Three Days in January. It\u2019s a historical perspective on the Eisenhower presidency but focuses on the transition from Eisenhower to JFK and farewell address that Eisenhower made warning of the military-industrial complex and so forth. Baier\u2019s book on this apparently has blown everybody away who has read it. So he\u2019s coming on here to talk about it and how it relates to the transition here.<\/p>\n John Brennan is the CIA director. This is a CNN story, and the headline of the story is: “Polygraph Panic: CIA Director Fretted His Vote for Communist.” I said, “What? We have a CIA director who voted for a communist? When?” So I read the story. To fully appreciate… The purpose of this is to help you fully appreciate what\u2019s going on with this nonsensical dossier on Donald Trump and the intelligence community attempting to undermine Trump and his presidency and the Democrats and McCain and others trying to obstruct Trump\u2019s presidency before he\u2019s even sworn in.<\/p>\n This story helps put a lot of these people in perspective. “At his first polygraph test to enter the CIA, the future director had a secret. John Brennan on Thursday…” This is from September 15th of last year, so this is six-month old story. “At his first polygraph test to enter the CIA, the future director had a secret. John Brennan on Thursday recalled being asked a standard question for a top security clearance at his early CIA lie detector test: Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the US?”<\/p>\n And he had!<\/p>\n This was in a panel discussion about diversity in the intelligence community. Are you kidding me? What, do you want to kill the intelligence community by putting “diversity” as one of the top-ranked qualifications? Diversity? How about love of America as being the first qualification? “Do you love the United States of America? Do you think the United States of America is the problem in the world or the solution. If you\u2019ve ever voted for a communist in my mind you should be automatically DQ\u2019d. Diversity?<\/p>\n A panel discussion on diversity in the intelligence community? It\u2019s a classic illustration of how liberalism destroys things. Diversity? Anyway, they ask him, “Have you ever worked with or for a group that was dedicated to overthrowing the U.S.?\u2019 I froze,\u2019 Brennan said during a panel discussion about diversity in the intelligence community…” By the way, do you know where this happened? At the Congressional Black Caucasian Foundation annual conference. So here\u2019s the CIA director at the Congressional Black Caucasians\u2019 annual…<\/p>\n What do you think goes on at this thing? It\u2019s filled with hate for Donald Trump and for Republicans, and here\u2019s Brennan, the CIA director, and he\u2019s detailing for people how he froze at his first polygraph. “This was back in 1980, and I thought back to a previous election where I voted, and I voted for the Communist Party candidate.” Now, 1980 happens to be Ronald Reagan, and guys like Brennan hated Reagan. Guys like Brennan thought Reagan was the problem in the world.<\/p>\n He was gonna start a nuclear war because he was incompetent and hated the Russians, and the first thing he was gonna do after being sworn in was go find the nuke button to launch and just wipe out the Soviets and in effect wipe out the world. It\u2019s what they thought. And now our CIA director admitted to having voted for a communist. He said, “I was neither Democrat nor Republican, but it was my way as I was going to college of signaling my unhappiness with the system and the need for change.”<\/p>\n Fine and dandy. You can be unhappy with the system all you want, but you don\u2019t side with the enemy, for crying out loud. And in 1980, Soviet communism was enemy number one. So our current CIA director has these sympathies in his past, and here\u2019s the guy sitting in judgment, passing judgment on Trump. Now, he\u2019s claiming he didn\u2019t leak this dossier. He didn\u2019t have to leak it. All they had to do was leak that they had briefed Trump on it, and that gave the news organizations an open road the reporting the story, which is all they ever wanted.<\/p>\n “Oh, my God! Oh, my God!” they said. “If — if — if — if the intelligence community briefed Trump on this, then that\u2019s news! That\u2019s news! What did they say?” And they reported what\u2019s in the dossier, and that\u2019s how this lying sack of garbage gets put in mainstream news coverage. And then McCain comes along (impression), “Yeah, yeah, I got that document. I read this and I said, ‘My gosh, it\u2019s horrible!\u2019 I put on my citizen hat and I did what would a good citizen do and I told the FBI. So that\u2019s what I did. I called James Comey; I gave it to the FBI.”<\/p>\n Are you telling me, Senator McCain, that you couldn\u2019t look at a piece of garbage like this and recognize it for what it is? You\u2019ve been on the Intelligence Committee for how many years, you\u2019ve been a Senator for how many years, you\u2019re a prisoner of war like John Lews and got beat up, so you have a claim to fame here. And you couldn\u2019t look at that document and realize that it was bogus?<\/p>\n And my supposition is that he could realize it was bogus but wanted to help try and sell it. Everybody\u2019s known this dossier was bogus. That\u2019s not the point. The point was, “Can we sell this? Can we put this dossier out there and make enough Americans think it\u2019s true or even consider that it might be to harm Trump?”<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=”Divider” color=”#60b6d6″ show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on”] [\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Headline #3″ background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”center” text_font=”Oswald|on|||” text_font_size=”22″ background_color=”#61b6d5″ use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid” custom_padding=”10|10|10|10″ text_text_color=”#284d61″]<\/p>\n More Reasons Washington Is Scared to Death of Trump<\/p>\n RUSH: Here\u2019s a story from the Washington Post: “Trump Could Cause ‘the Death of Think Tanks as We Know Them.'”\u00a0 Josh Rogan, global opinions writer, Washington Post.\u00a0 Now, this is a dicey area, but think tanks are worried about this. Conservative think tanks, liberal think tanks, they\u2019re worried about Trump.\u00a0 For the longest time, the think tanks have been telling their donors, “Hey, look, we\u2019re your guardians. We\u2019re the ones making sure what you believe becomes policy. We\u2019re the ones with relationships and members of Congress.\u00a0 We\u2019re the ones that are on point on policy.\u00a0 We\u2019re the ones.”<\/p>\n Some of the media in both conservative and liberal spheres is the same, and Trump\u2019s come along and blown that to smithereens, and that\u2019s reason why there\u2019s Never Trumpers out there in both areas left and right in the think tank sphere.\u00a0 I need to put this story in the Stack for further detail tomorrow.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider admin_label=”Divider” color=”#60b6d6″ show_divider=”on” divider_style=”solid” divider_position=”top” hide_on_mobile=”on”] [\/et_pb_divider][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Does It Bother You That Trump Says NATO Is Obsolete?…How to Talk About Trump With Your Progressive Adult Children… CIA Director Brennan Admits He Voted for a Communist… More Reasons Washington Is Scared to Death of Trump… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[44,12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n