{"id":276033,"date":"2018-06-11T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=276033"},"modified":"2018-06-12T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T20:15:52","slug":"unhinged-trump-opponents-have-learned-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/06\/11\/unhinged-trump-opponents-have-learned-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhinged Trump Opponents Have Learned Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Folks, I have so much here. I have enough audio sound bites just to fill up the whole show. I have over 40 of \u2019em. I mean, it\u2019s gonna be a major, major task to get to this, and a lot of it is stuff that is not big and in the forefront of the news like the summit in North Korea and the aftermath of the G7 summit.<\/p>\n

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It is amazing to me, we\u2019re now well at the probably almost dead middle of the year and a half mark of the Trump administration, and it just fascinates me how the opponents of Donald Trump have not learned a single thing. They have not picked up on a single thing. They have not changed their tactics. They\u2019ve not changed their modus operandi. They\u2019re becoming even more unhinged. And it isn\u2019t gonna work.<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, De Niro at the Tony Awards last night with the F-bomb a couple of times and getting a standing ovation for it. Fine and dandy in New York, but everybody knows — Snerdley, back me up on this — everybody knows that in the theater of New York, New Yorkers don\u2019t go. It\u2019s out-of-towners that go. I mean, they may go to openings and this kind of stuff, but if the theater business in New York lost the tourist business, they\u2019d be out of business. And who do you think the tourists are?<\/p>\n

The tourists are not showing up in New York wanting to hear that kind of stuff from the stage. They\u2019re just absolutely tone-deaf. They\u2019re seeing Trump succeed, they\u2019re seeing the economy succeed, and they can\u2019t deal with it; so rather than come up with a different kind of strategy to deal with it, they\u2019re doubling down on insanity. They\u2019re doubling down on ununhingedness.<\/p>\n

And while it\u2019s comical to watch, there are destructive things happening to our culture in the process of this, and one of the reasons why I think it is lingering is — and I mentioned this last week — and I must admit that I\u2019m not the only one who mentioned this — the Republican Party in general is not calling any of this stuff out. Trump alone is dealing with — I don\u2019t mean Trump is calling it out, but I mean Trump\u2019s got no backup or no support.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not even that. It\u2019s just the whole idea of informing, educating, validating the public. I mean, if you\u2019ve got, say, De Niro doing what he\u2019s doing or Bill Maher, any of these unhinged activists out there and the things that they\u2019re doing and saying — and isn\u2019t working. This is the thing. It is not working. It is not hurting Trump. It\u2019s hurting them.<\/p>\n

This blue wave that they were anticipating isn\u2019t there yet. We don\u2019t know if there\u2019s gonna be one or not. You can\u2019t take polling data this far out and have it be meaningful when you have a bunch of elections in November \u2019cause I still think we\u2019re at the point here where the things that are gonna have a major impact on the election haven\u2019t happened yet.<\/p>\n

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But these people are just refusing to understand the destructive — maybe they want to be destructive I think when you get down to it, but nobody is calling them out, other than us and maybe some outposts in the so-called conservative media, but my point is this. I guarantee you if the situations were reversed, the entirety of the Democrat Party and their buddies in the media would be calling out this aberrant behavior each and every day and signaling that it isn\u2019t okay and signaling that it\u2019s crazy.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party leadership in the House and Senate, RNC, you just don\u2019t see any reaction to all of this, at least not enough. They are doing something, you know, we played an audio sound bite of Obama last week, when he went out to the Carrier plant in middle America. He was doing a town hall, and people there asked him about the job that they\u2019ve been losing and that Trump was gonna bring \u2019em back.<\/p>\n

And Obama said, (imitating Obama), “I don\u2019t know how. What\u2019s he gonna do, gonna wave a magic wand? I mean, just \u2019cause you say you wanna do it, how\u2019s he gonna do it?” And of course Trump has done it and it\u2019s a perfect ad and somebody\u2019s been thinking and they\u2019ve made an ad out of it. We have the audio sound bites coming up.<\/p>\n

Here is another example on the Republican side. During the Republican primaries there were a whole bunch of think tank, foreign policy eggheads, a bunch of thinkers, a bunch of intellectuals and faux intellectuals working at all the different think tanks in and around Washington, about 150 of them. You would not know these names. I mean they\u2019re deep, deep, deep in the so-called swamp. I\u2019m not saying these are deep state people. I\u2019m saying these are conservatives that are somewhere in the deep, deep, deep Washington political class working at think tanks, foreign policy specialists.<\/p>\n

And every one of them signed or wrote letters condemning Donald Trump as an upcoming disaster, as unfit, as uncouth, as somebody who doesn\u2019t know American foreign policy. Well, as a result, none of them got hired. So now they\u2019re all complaining that they haven\u2019t been hired! They\u2019re complaining that Trump is blackballing \u2019em. I mean, it\u2019s hilarious. Let me get the exact story here. ‘Cause I put it near the top.<\/p>\n

“Two Years Later, No Amnesty for the GOP\u2019s Never Trump Camp<\/a> — Many remain critical, others have repented, but all are shut out from the Trump State Department.” The story appears in Foreign Policy magazine, the publication of the New World Order.<\/p>\n

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“On paper, Matthew Kroenig would be a strong candidate to serve in U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. The 40-year-old professor of government at Georgetown University is an expert on nuclear proliferation. He has a record of public service at both the CIA and the Pentagon. And he says he supports much of the Trump administration\u2019s foreign policy.<\/p>\n

“But there\u2019s one hitch. During the 2016 Republican primaries, Kroenig signed a letter criticizing Trump\u2019s candidacy and calling him unfit for the presidency. Now, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo races to fill key positions in an understaffed institution badly neglected by his predecessor –” that would be Tillerson they\u2019re referring to here “– he\u2019s finding that some of the best-qualified people in Washington remain unacceptable to a president notorious for his thin skin.”<\/p>\n

Really? It\u2019s Trump that\u2019s got thin skin? When I read this, “What do these people think this is? What do they think Washington is? Just a game?” And, folks, do not slough this off. In large part, in their minds it might be a game in the sense, okay, let\u2019s go back to the primaries. We have 16 Republicans including Trump, and everybody\u2019s sizing things up, and at that time nobody thinks Trump has a chance, and all of these eggheads want to march up and be in a Republican administration.<\/p>\n

So they do what they think is necessary to get there. They choose somebody that they think is gonna win and then they support them, and then they start kissing rear ends. And part and parcel of that is condemning people that they have not chosen to support. In the case of Trump, it was unilateral opposition, and all these people believed that it would serve them well to rip Trump a new one the way Trump was being ripped a new one by everybody, unqualified, incompetent, dumb, stupid, dangerous, all of that.<\/p>\n

So they went all-in on it. But apparently it was just what you do. Apparently they didn\u2019t really mean it, because now they\u2019re coming around, saying, “Oh, yeah. Trump\u2019s doing some really great stuff, but we\u2019re being blackballed.” What do you mean, you\u2019re being blackballed? What do you mean Trump has a thin skin? What\u2019s he supposed to do? You spent the entire campaign ripping him a new one, claiming he was unqualified, claiming he was incompetent, claiming you wouldn\u2019t work for him, claiming he was the worst thing that could happen to American foreign policy.<\/p>\n

Now he wins. Now American foreign policy is such that these people want to be in on it. Remember my brilliant observation that all of these Never Trumpers are sitting around watching everything they\u2019ve devoted their lives to be instituted, policy-wise. I\u2019ve never seen anything like this, and they\u2019re still opposing it. Everything they claim to have devoted their life\u2019s work to is being implemented, and still they run around and voice opposition to it.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s not Trump that has the thin skin. Why should Trump hire a bunch of people who might end up being sandbaggers or saboteurs? “Ah, Mr. Limbaugh, he\u2019s supposed to look the other way. That\u2019s the way of Washington.” See, that\u2019s the game. The game is, “No, you\u2019re not supposed to take us seriously. We had to say that. That\u2019s what was called for at the time.”<\/p>\n

They want to be held unaccountable to their words and deeds. They don\u2019t want people to think they really meant it. Well, then why did they say it? Why did they voice this opposition in the first place? I think it illustrates some of the nature of what goes on in Washington inside the Beltway. Much of it is pro forma. It\u2019s a lot of people doing what\u2019s expected of them.<\/p>\n

I mean, everybody there is trying to climb the ladder of success and kissing up to the people they think should be kissed up to and criticizing those that they\u2019re kissing up to want criticized and so forth. Then it all backfires on them, and now they want to say, “Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. That was then. This is now. We really kind of support what the president\u2019s doing.” Well, no, you don\u2019t support everything, you didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

And it would be foolhardy for him to turn to this group of people to fill these positions without deep interviews, extensive background checks, because why let saboteurs in the administration? But the idea that these people are acting like Trump is still the problem, they signed all the letters. They wrote all the letters condemning Trump as the worst thing that had ever happened. And if he got elected, it was over for America.<\/p>\n

These were caustic. These were deeply just plain mean letters that these people wrote. Now they want to be held blameless? Now they want to be exempt from any accountability? Well, yeah, people in Washington say a lot of things they don\u2019t mean, you know, they just have to say these things at the right time because it\u2019s what\u2019s expected. Well, it\u2019s taking a lot of people a long time to learn that there is a completely new way of doing things in that town, and they are having trouble with it.<\/p>\n

And that might be one of the many recurring themes on the program today, is how people are just refusing to see what\u2019s happening, learn how this particular game is being played, looking at the results of it. I saw a story over the weekend, New York Times, Washington Post, I forget which — it may not have been either of those two — it was a story about how the Washington political class loved and admired Obama despite failure after failure, despite scandal after scandal, because he talked smart, because he seemed cool. You know, the old crease-in-the-pants-leg business.<\/p>\n

Then they look at Donald Trump and here are massive achievements left and right, serious policy improvements and implementations, foreign policy, domestic policy, economic policy were off and running, and everybody seems to condemn that \u2019cause of the way Trump talks. It reminds me of an observation I came up with early in this history of the program where liberals and Washington are devoted to symbolism over substance. Now it\u2019s now become style over substance. But it\u2019s still true.<\/p>\n

And I think, when you boil it down, the people in Washington, what they\u2019re having trouble with here is the genuine substance of things because I think they are very rarely devoted to substance or involved. Everything\u2019s symbolism; everything is perception; everything is PR; everything\u2019s spin; very little is real.<\/p>\n

And now a whole bunch of reality is hitting people upside the head day in and day out, and they simply don\u2019t know how to deal with it, from Republican Never Trumpers to the Democrat Party, the American left, the media, and on and on and on.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: By the way, on this De Niro business at the Tony Awards last night, you know, the F Trump, F Trump, let\u2019s remember, we\u2019re coming up on the one year anniversary of a deranged leftist opening fire on Republicans at baseball practice. Republican congressman Steve Scalise was shot, seriously injured on June 14th of last year. That\u2019s three days away from being a one-year anniversary. You\u2019ve got De Niro and you have a these other people out there just literally inciting who knows what kind of unhinged behavior.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: How about the Twitter CEO? You want to talk about lunatic deranged. Jack Dorsey is the CEO of Twitter. Jack Dorsey is the founder of Twitter. Jack Dorsey went to Chick-fil-A to eat recently. Jack Dorsey then tweeted photographs of his receipts. He spent like 28 and 31 bucks at Chick-fil-A.<\/p>\n

\"\"The left went bat excrement crazy and demanded that he apologize for going to Chick-fil-A! You know why? Because the CEO of Chick-fil-A has publicly said many times that as a Christian, he doesn\u2019t believe in same-sex marriage. It violates his religious beliefs. And because of that, Jack Dorsey was made to walk the plank. And what did Jack Dorsey do? He bent over and walked the plank and apologized and did whatever else necessary.<\/p>\n

My friends, that\u2019s not freedom. That\u2019s not liberty. That\u2019s authoritarian, totalitarianism. That is scary stuff. “Twitter CEO Caves To Liberal Backlash, Says He Was Wrong To Eat Chick-Fil-A<\/a> — Dorsey tweeted a screenshot from his phone that showed a purchase he had made at Chick-fil-A using a mobile application. After a liberal backlash, however, Dorsey apologized for eating at the popular fast food restaurant,” and promised never to do it again.<\/p>\n

A former CNN infobabe, Soledad O\u2019Brien, was one of those who called out Jack Dorsey publicly for eating at Chick-fil-A. She “indicated that Dorsey had sinned by publicly eating at Chick-fil-A during gay pride month.” Well, how do they know that the local manager wasn\u2019t gay? How do they know that some of the employees at this Chick-fil-A are not gay? How do they know that the supply chain doesn\u2019t have gay people in it? How do they know that the janitor isn\u2019t gay? How do they know that the guy driving the truck delivering the food to Chick-fil-A isn\u2019t gay?<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t know any of that. How deep are they gonna take this? And trust me: They\u2019re not gonna win elections like this. This is not the kind of thing that\u2019s going to build a movement. It\u2019s gonna verify and validate the deranged that are already out there. But I guarantee you there is this timeless, silent majority out there watching and observing and noting all of this. And they are not joining it. And they are not applauding it. They are repulsed by it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s fascinating, it\u2019s hilarious to listen to the traditional Washington crowd bemoan and criticize Trump. It\u2019s almost becoming a parody of itself. It\u2019s almost becoming a joke. It\u2019s almost to the point now — don\u2019t worry, it still enrages me, and it always will. But now I\u2019m having other emotional reactions to it, too, as well as intellectual or thinking reactions to it too.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m stupefied by the stupidity, the genuine closed-minded stupidity and bigotry of your average Washington political class Trump critic to whom substance of anything doesn\u2019t matter. That is the biggest take-away from all of this, is that the substance of what Trump is doing does not matter. All of this great economic news, it doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

In fact, Bill Maher on his show Friday night was actually wishing for a recession. If Bill Maher is wishing for a recession, I\u2019ll guarantee you a lot of other Democrats are hoping for an economic downturn so that they can win the election, which should tell everybody that all this talk about how much the Democrats care about people, care about the little guy, it\u2019s all bogus. Wishing for a recession.<\/p>\n