{"id":295132,"date":"2018-12-19T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T21:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=295132"},"modified":"2018-12-20T16:11:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T21:11:58","slug":"its-not-time-to-panic-its-time-to-be-enraged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/19\/its-not-time-to-panic-its-time-to-be-enraged\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Time to Panic — It\u2019s Time to Be Enraged!"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We go back to Melbourne Beach, Florida. This is Pat. Great to have you. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush! First-time caller. Long-term listener. God bless you for all you do. I\u2019ll tell you, Rush, I\u2019m really depressed and so are all my friends who support Trump. It looks like the wall is not gonna be funded and, with the Democratic Congress coming in, the rest of his agenda is gonna be crushed and the left is gonna be in charge again. You know, President Trump was our last great hope, and now we\u2019re feeling like losers rather than the winners we were supposed to be. You always said you would tell us when it\u2019s time to panic. So, is it time to panic? And, oh, by the way, if President Trump needs money for the wall, I can\u2019t fund it all, but I\u2019ll be glad to send in a donation, and I\u2019m sure others would do the same. Just tell me where to send the money.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Well, it\u2019s interesting you bring that up. There is a GoFundMe campaign<\/a> that\u2019s been started.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Wonderful! I\u2019ll go look for it. (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: People are donating. I just saw the number that so far is in, and I can\u2019t remember what it was. But you know, on one hand, $5 billion is a rounding error compared to whole federal budget. It\u2019s chump change. But when you start trying to raise it, it is huge. You\u2019re asking people to contribute in nominal amounts and to get enough of it equal to $5 billion? It\u2019s gonna be a lot of money. It\u2019s gonna be major challenge.<\/p>\n

But Chuck and Nancy are gonna come in and say, “You can\u2019t use that money for that! If Congress doesn\u2019t allocate it, you can\u2019t spend it.” That\u2019s what they\u2019re gonna say. Look, it\u2019s not time to panic. I thought today, even a little yesterday, that I might get your call, one from somebody today asking if it\u2019s time to panic. No, it\u2019s not time to panic. It\u2019s time to be enraged, and I think, at this stage… You might find this — I don\u2019t know — curious.<\/p>\n

But I think Trump needs as much support as he can get. Not specifically on not funding the wall or what people think is caving but just overall support. He needs to know he\u2019s not being abandoned by people, \u2019cause look, you said it. I mean, he is it. I mean, if he let\u2019s go of the issue, then it really is gone. As long as he has not let go of the issue and as long as he\u2019s willing to keep fighting for it, then there is a chance. He\u2019s the only person that can do it, and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: How could we let him know we\u2019re out here? We support him. We love him. We want him to know we\u2019ve got his back. But there\u2019s no way to get to him. How do we let him know?<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Well, there is a way, any number of ways. Emails, phone calls to the White House. There\u2019s any number of ways. If it happens in sufficient numbers, they\u2019ll hear about it. You\u2019re gonna have people that will tell him. I mean, he\u2019s not living in a vacuum up there. But it\u2019s just unfortunate because the reason why so many of us are fit to be tied today is that every bit of this has been predictable, and therefore there should have been a plan for it! We know that McConnell and the guys don\u2019t want it. We know that the Democrats don\u2019t want it. We know this, and there should have been a way around this. I still think doing this before the election would have been a slam dunk.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Ed in Omaha. You\u2019re next, sir. Glad you called.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, hi, Ed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I just wanted to comment on the fact that even if the wall does get built, what kind of riots and protests and civil actions are people gonna take in preventing these guys from even building the wall.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Probably there would be serious protest action along the border. You mean during the construction process itself?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, so, is that a reason not to do it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No! No! But that would just give the predictable left more ammunition to despise Trump because all these people are dying in building the wall and riots everywhere, and… You know.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Look, it\u2019s a good point. I mentioned this earlier. No matter what Trump… It\u2019s really not even exclusive to Trump. Any Republican president. Whatever a Republican or conservative president does, there is going to be some socialist, some leftist, some liberal somewhere — a bunch of \u2019em — standing up, protesting it, causing riots, saying, “No! It can\u2019t be done.” The left will then find a judge to shut it down. This is part of the process now.<\/p>\n

The thing is, that\u2019s not gonna end. We\u2019re not… Folks, we\u2019re not dealing with people — and this ought to be abundantly clear. We\u2019re not dealing with people who accept the results of elections that they lose, and I don\u2019t want to be alarmist here, but that is a serious, serious problem. The glue… There are many aspects of the glue that keep America together. I mean, when you stop and think about how fragile it is, it\u2019s kind of stunning that we\u2019ve made it this far, given what the left has become.<\/p>\n

Take the Constitution. What is it? It\u2019s essentially a series of pieces of paper, and on these pieces of paper are words. Do you know how lucky we have been for 220-plus years that every steward of this country has honored and respected those words? Yeah, there\u2019s some people that try to violate the terms of the Constitution. But it\u2019s always had its defense from the highest and most powerful offices in the land — and, for the most part, it\u2019s always been honored.<\/p>\n

Now, look, I can imagine some of you shouting things. (grumbling) “Well, Ted Kennedy never honored…” I know all of that. I\u2019m telling you that the Constitution still prevails and still reigns supreme, only because all of this time there was an honor system that people respected it. Yeah, you had Obama with his executive actions and executive orders to get around it. But the remedy for that was electing somebody new to erase them, which is what Trump did. What happens at the ballot box in this country is the determinant.<\/p>\n

It always has been. Except it isn\u2019t any more when the left loses elections, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re witnessing. They are not honoring election results, the will of the people, however you want to describe it. When they don\u2019t get their way, they are causing havoc. They are raising hell. They are destroying property and intimidating people. They are causing and creating riots and participating in them. Every little thing Donald Trump does and has done has been greeted… The first travel ban. Do you remember? Hell, it wasn\u2019t even a travel ban.<\/p>\n

\"\"Remember the first Women\u2019s March when they\u2019re wearing all those vagina hats out there? That was just because Trump won the election, and there were supposedly a million of \u2019em all over the country in various women\u2019s marches. They were just refusing to accept. They were not going to sit by or stand by and allow the winner and his party to enjoy the fruits of victory. In their world, the victory was illegitimate — and it would have been even if there wasn\u2019t any Russian controversy. Just the fact that they lost would have made the election illegitimate.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how they behave now. So virtually every agenda item — everything that a Republican president attempts to do now — is going to be met with this reaction. And you\u2019re right: If the money is authorized for the wall, and if construction begins, I guarantee you you\u2019re absolutely right. The left is gonna show up en masse and try to shut down the project with riots and protests. I have no doubt that they will. Groups of them would even try to destroy completed aspects of the wall.<\/p>\n

The way you deal with this kind of thing is to arrest them and put them in jail. That is what isn\u2019t happening, because it\u2019s not considered to be illegal since it\u2019s part of the political process, the First Amendment, freedom of speech, da-da-da-da-da. Except those same freedoms and variances are not permitted to us. But that is a really important part of the glue that has kept this country together as founded, and that\u2019s really — when you get down to it — what is under attack, and that is the country as founded. We know the reasons for it.<\/p>\n

We know how this has happened. Communist infiltration of the education system, leftist infiltration of so many of our institutions, which has resulted now in at least two generations of kids being educated in such a way that their minds have literally been poisoned about the truth, the greatness of the founding of America and what it is that has made the United States great. They have not been taught any of it. They\u2019ve been taught the opposite.<\/p>\n

\"\"They don\u2019t believe it, and they think what they\u2019re doing is restoring some greatness where all kinds of oddballs are treated fairly and not discriminated against, and it goes on. Once we get to the point here that election results not respected, in my lifetime and in yours, too… You know, I can even remember as recently as 2002, when the Democrats shockingly lost the midterm elections in 2002, the first midterms after George Bush had won the Florida recount and thus the presidency.<\/p>\n

Even after those midterms, the Democrats polled the American people, found out why they were voted against, why they were rejected, and at least gave lip service to having to change, make some changes in the way the party thought about things and the party\u2019s platform and agenda. And one of the things, interestingly, that resulted from the exit polls was that value-based voters in 2002 wanted no part of the Democrat Party. It may have been because of the Wellstone memorial, but whatever reason. Values had not even been part of the campaign!<\/p>\n

To the extent that there was a national campaign, nobody was talking about values. There was talk about culture war and all that but not values per se, not as they were specified in exit polls. Democrats for two weeks — I\u2019ll never forget — said, “We are gonna have to reassess here.” Well, that\u2019s what used to happen when political parties lost. The will of the people was gold. The expressed will of the people at the ballot box was gold.<\/p>\n

Where the people were, what they wanted, that used to matter in terms of political parties in their agendas. But that\u2019s not the case anymore, and particularly with the Democrat Party. What you want is irrelevant. You only matter at election time and only if you do the right thing. If you don\u2019t elect them and the people running for office on their side, then you don\u2019t count, and it\u2019s gonna be overturned or stopped or whatever. There has to be a way of fighting back against this rather than caving to it or acquiescing to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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