{"id":307761,"date":"2019-04-30T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=307761"},"modified":"2019-05-01T15:59:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T19:59:16","slug":"the-democrats-are-running-against-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/30\/the-democrats-are-running-against-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Democrats Are Running Against Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to go back to the audio sound bites here. We\u2019ve got a lot to try squeeze in in our remaining moments. I want to go back to me from this program. I could have pulled this from any program in the past, \u2019cause I\u2019ve said it constantly over and over many times. We pulled it from yesterday for a reason.<\/a> Here we go. Number thee, sound bite 3…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: \u201cAmericans Are Some of the Most Stressed-out People in the World.\u201d I wonder why. Could that be the Drive-By Media with all these promises? I mean, the news every day is a daily dose of poison, and the poison is pessimism. The poison is negativism.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: And it\u2019s always about the future. This is the thing that is worrisome to me. The Drive-By Media, by definition, is negative and pessimistic, fatalistic, just downright doomy. But it\u2019s always about the future! If you stop and think, everything is: “This is gonna kill you if you keep doing this, from using your phone, to drinking coffee, to fossil fuels, to climate change.” Everything is gonna wipe us out! It\u2019s gonna kill us, it\u2019s gonna end us, it\u2019s gonna harm us, it\u2019s gonna make us sick.<\/p>\n

I maintain that people cannot escape this, cannot escape being affected by it if they are exposed to it regularly. It can make people perennially pessimistic, and I think human beings are naturally pessimistic. I just think it\u2019s the way we\u2019re made. We don\u2019t need any help in feeling pessimistic or negative. I mean, it\u2019s a natural human inclination. These people come along, and they enforce it and they drive it home, and that\u2019s why when somebody believable comes along who\u2019s not negative and instead is positive and optimistic, that person is glommed onto like a magnet, and that\u2019s what Make America Great Again was!<\/p>\n

Look, “Make America Great Again” ought to be a rallying cry for everybody. Who in the world could oppose it? But right there they were, the Democrat Party and the Drive-By Media, not only opposing it, but lampooning it and making fun of it and claiming that it was a negative, that making America great — our own country — is somehow white supremacy, is somehow white nationalism! Do you realize how difficult it is to promote optimism and to promote being positive? You come along, you do something and say, “Make America Great Again.” It\u2019s harmless.<\/p>\n

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No, it isn\u2019t. Making America great again is obviously very, very threatening to some of these people. That should be enough to tell you everything about them, that they want to oppose somebody whose objective is to make America great. Isn\u2019t that the heart and soul of every political campaign? Look at even Biden. “I\u2019m gonna bring back our economy.” No, Joe, it\u2019s already back, but he\u2019s still talking about trying to be positive in the midst of pessimism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even when Trump talks about making America great again, notice he doesn\u2019t make fun of the people. He doesn\u2019t blame the people. He blames dumb leadership. Trump is always putting his faith in the American people to make the country great, to revive it, to bring it back, and that\u2019s why they feel rallied to the cause. And then he does that, and here come a bunch of people who see that as a threa! America being great again is a threat?<\/p>\n

So now we have to mount this fake charge that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the election. Because he wants to Make America Great Again, it\u2019s a problem? If you can\u2019t even have a campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” without the media and the Democrat Party reacting to it as though it\u2019s the greatest threat they face, what else do you need to know about who they are? Anyway. So here I am yesterday and many days prior describing the pessimism and the negativity of many in the Drive-By Media. Let\u2019s go to Jill Biden, Mrs. Joe Biden, introducing her husband yesterday in “Bagabony County,” which is what he called Allegheny County…<\/p>\n

JILL: When we turn on the news today, we are told that we are a nation that is more divided than ever. We\u2019re told that our differences are irreconcilable, that we must close the door on people who think differently. We\u2019re told that there is a war between them and us. But when I travel this country and I meet people like all of you, that\u2019s not what I see.<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: Well, she\u2019s undercutting his whole reason for running! “When we turn on the news today, we are told that we are a nation that is more divided than ever.” Who\u2019s telling us this? ” We\u2019re told that our differences are irreconcilable,” Who\u2019s telling us this? ” that we must close the door on people who think differently.” Who is it trying to shut out voices they don\u2019t agree with? It\u2019s Joe Biden and his party. “Gotta get rid of Fox News. Gotta get rid of Rush Limbaugh. Gotta get rid of talk radio. Gotta get rid of this; gotta get rid of that. Gotta get rid of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

“Gotta get rid of anybody who thinks differently, speaks differently, thinks differently! You name it, we gotta get rid of \u2019em.” She\u2019s worried here. “[W]e must close the door on people that think differently.” Yes, your party, Mrs. Biden, is leading the way. “We\u2019re told that there is a war between them and us.” There is, if you see what\u2019s happening at the border.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jill Biden wasn\u2019t through. After telling us about the constant media doom and gloom, she continued with this…<\/p>\n

JILL: I see neighbors who pick up groceries for the mom whose husband is deployed. I see middle-class families who are giving record-breaking amounts of donations to causes that they care about. I see Americans who drive their pickup trucks into the floods of a hurricane and run towards fires to help their neighbors. (cheers) I see people speaking out —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. Stop the tape. Stop the tape. Then all of the previous sound bite was BS. If we\u2019re more divided, if our differences are irreconcilable, then how in the world is all this good stuff happening and why does her husband need to run if all this good stuff is happening, if all this neighborly stuff is taking place, if all the pickup trucks are being driven into flood areas, hurricane areas, toward fires to help their neighbors.<\/p>\n

\"\"She says, \u201cI see people speaking out against bullying, bigotry, and racism.\u201d Really? Your husband doesn\u2019t see that. The Democrat Party doesn\u2019t see that. The Democrat Party sees all that getting worse. Here\u2019s Biden himself from his announcement yesterday, old stammering Joe gave it a shot.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: The anti-Semitic attack that took place this weekend, uh, in, uh, Poway synagogue in California, one dead, three injured. But, folks, we saw hate in Charlottesville. We saw it again in Pittsburgh at the Tree of Life synagogue, and the attack of the deadliest in American history on a Jewish community, and we\u2019re reminded again that we are in a battle. We are in a battle for America\u2019s soul. I really believe that. And we have to restore it. (cheers) So, folks —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Battle for America\u2019s soul. I really believe that. Yeah, you want to control them all. Skip forward to number eight. This is this morning on Good Morning America. Robin Roberts interviewing Joe. She said, \u201cWhat would you say to the Trump voter, the Trump supporter who looks at the economy, sees very strong numbers here in Pennsylvania where the unemployment rate is a record low. What would you say to them?\u201d<\/p>\n

BIDEN: Well, what I\u2019d say is, did you get any benefit from the tax cut? Have your wages really gone up, you think you deserved, your employers treat you with any more respect or dignity than they did before? What\u2019s the story? Ask the folks in this state. I know the state pretty well. And the fact of the matter is that they are not getting their fair share. The American people, the people who built this country, are ordinary Americans who have done extraordinary things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where did he get that line?<\/p>\n

BIDEN: And this president does not show a great deal of respect. The bottom line for a vast majority of working class and middle-class people is not significantly better. It\u2019s not significantly better.<\/p>\n