{"id":303133,"date":"2019-03-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=303133"},"modified":"2019-03-20T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:25:30","slug":"trump-calls-out-collusion-between-democrats-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/19\/trump-calls-out-collusion-between-democrats-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls Out Collusion Between Democrats and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We do have a couple of Trump sound bites coming up from the joint presser with the Brazilian president. Trump said that we\u2019re in the twilight of socialism. And yet all these young Millennials think that capitalism has failed them. Why is that? Any Millennial who wants a job can get one, obviously. What is it that makes them think capitalism has failed them?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-297311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SocialismAlways-Fails.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SocialismAlways-Fails.jpg 585w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SocialismAlways-Fails-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I tell you what I think one thing is: student loan debt. I think the student loan situation is crushing people. They are going into debt to get degrees, many of them worthless degrees. They\u2019re going into debt getting degrees that they\u2019ve been told they have to get. College is mandatory, gotta do it, can\u2019t do without it, gotta get it done, gotta go, everybody says, public pressure, peer pressure, you gotta go to college.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s so important, it\u2019s so mandatory that they take out loans, they borrow more money than ever dreamed they would borrow because they\u2019ve gotta go, they\u2019ve gotta go, they\u2019ve gotta go, everybody says you gotta go to college, parents, peers, everybody. Tech people telling you you gotta go to college. So they incur all this debt. They come out with four-year degrees, many of their degrees are worthless, and they\u2019ve got this mountain of debt.<\/p>\n<p>And who are they gonna blame that on? They\u2019re gonna blame it on the American economic system. \u201cThis is so unfair.\u201d So you might be able to make the case that they could blame capitalism if they associate capitalism with the student loan program. Aside from that, it\u2019s a massive disconnect in education.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the two sound bites that we have from Trump\u2019s presser with the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, it\u2019s a joint press conference. A reporter said, &#8220;You tweeted in support of Congressman Nunes\u2019s suit against Twitter. There\u2019s part of a larger discussion about making social media companies libel for the content that is on their platform which they\u2019re not currently. Is that an idea or a change in law that you would support?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: I have many, many millions of followers on Twitter and it\u2019s different than it used to be. Things are happening, names are taken off, people aren\u2019t getting through. You\u2019ve heard the same complaints, and it seems to be if they\u2019re conservative, if they\u2019re Republicans, if they\u2019re in a certain group, there\u2019s discrimination and big discrimination. I see it absolutely on Twitter and Facebook. Something\u2019s happening with those groups of folks that are running Facebook and Google and Twitter, and I do think we have to get to the bottom of it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-303198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TRUMPBRAZIL.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TRUMPBRAZIL.png 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/TRUMPBRAZIL-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yeah. I\u2019ll tell you, you know what this is tied to? In a recent Supreme Court case, Justice Clarence Thomas lamented that it is too difficult for public figures to sue for libel and slander in the United States. It\u2019s because of the case Sullivan v. New York Times or New York Times v. Sullivan.<\/p>\n<p>And it basically is the case that holds if you\u2019re a public figure, screw you. They can say anything they want about you and you have no recourse, because given that you\u2019re a public figure, you already have a platform or platforms that you can use to reply.<\/p>\n<p>So public figures in the United States cannot seek damages when they are slandered or libeled. And Clarence Thomas thinks this case needs to be overturned or revisited, I should more properly say. And I think that Devin Nunes\u2019 lawsuit against Twitter is the first step in trying to get that case, Sullivan v. New York Times, or a version of it, back before the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Because what Trump described &#8212; let me describe it a little bit better. Trump has how many followers on Twitter? Does anybody know off the top of your head, it\u2019s millions, right? You would figure if Trump tweets something out that, of that millions and millions, a significantly large number of them would retweet it, would they not? Okay. So Trump tweets out a video or anything, he\u2019s got millions of followers, then you look and you see 11,000 retweets? Sorry, folks. That\u2019s not mathematically possible.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody who has millions and millions and millions of followers tweets something out and only 11,000 retweet it? That\u2019s one of the things Trump is talking about here, the shadow banning. Trump is being shadow banned. Trump is being limited, as are a lot of conservatives on Twitter and Facebook and all the Facebook apps. There\u2019s Messenger, there\u2019s Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook controls a lot of these things, and there\u2019s no question that there\u2019s censorship. 25.4 million followers and a video he tweets gets 11,000 retweets? That\u2019s not possible. There ought to be millions of retweets. Trump is perhaps one of the most popular Twitter users ever, and they\u2019re doing everything they can to limit Trump\u2019s popularity and reach.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-293076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-110918-Facebook-Social-Media-Sad-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-110918-Facebook-Social-Media-Sad-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/APP-110918-Facebook-Social-Media-Sad-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But they are private concerns. It\u2019s their business. They can run it however they want. And entreaties to them to be fair are gonna be met with deaf ears because they are also leftist activities as well. Here\u2019s one more Trump bite as he continues with his thoughts on censorship that\u2019s occurring and collusion that\u2019s occurring on social media.<\/p>\n<p>THE PRESIDENT: You know, the incredible thing is that we can win an election and we have such a stacked deck, and that includes networks, frankly. You look at the networks. You look at the news and you look at the newscasts. I call it fake news. I\u2019m very proud to hear the president use the term fake news. But you look at what\u2019s happening with the networks. You look at what\u2019s happening with different shows and it\u2019s hard to believe we win, but I\u2019ll tell you what it really shows, the people are smart. The people get it. They\u2019ll go through all of that, whatever it is they\u2019re fed, and in the end they pull the right lever.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It is kind of amazing, just with the odds as stacked against Trump and Republicans as they are, that victory still happens.<\/p>\n<p>Did you hear what happened to Roy Blunt in Missouri? Roy Blunt, a Republican from Missouri Senator, voted for the resolution condemning Trump\u2019s declaration of a national emergency.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-302920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031819-MSNBC-Grab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031819-MSNBC-Grab.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/APP-031819-MSNBC-Grab-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>He was one of the 12 Republican senators essentially voting against Trump. He was disinvited in his hometown from speaking at a big-time Republican fundraising event after that vote, in his hometown. It\u2019s not far from Springfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: It is kind of amazing, just with the odds as stacked against Trump and Republicans as they are, that victory still happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":303198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Calls Out Collusion Between Democrats and Social Media - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/03\/19\/trump-calls-out-collusion-between-democrats-and-social-media\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Trump Calls Out Collusion Between Democrats and Social Media - 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