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<\/p>\nRUSH: It\u2019s amazing. The Drive-By Media now understands the concept of tax cuts and tax increases, but it took tariffs and a tariff war with the ChiComs for the Drive-Bys to understand it. I\u2019m being ironic and a little sarcastic. They know it and understand it. It\u2019s just that since the Republicans own mantra of tax cuts, since that is a Republican-owned belief… Democrats don\u2019t believe in cutting taxes; Republicans do, and the Democrats know it. So whenever the concept of tax cuts comes up, the Democrats and the media have to destroy it, as they did the latest round of Trump tax cuts.<\/p>\n
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Two years ago, they started… Well, a year and a half ago, they did story after story lying after lying after lying about how the tax cuts didn\u2019t mean anything. They weren\u2019t gonna get you any additional money. They were gonna cost you money (because they lie about it). But since tariffs are not thought of as tax cuts or tax increases period (at least in the vernacular), then the Drive-Bys are free to tell the truth about them. It\u2019s just a teachable moment. It\u2019s a instructive moment to see how the Drive-Bys deal with things.<\/p>\n
Because the bottom line is, anything and everything that can harm Republicans, they will do it. This whole Mueller thing? Do you realize there\u2019s nothing — and I\u2019m blue in the face over this, but this illustrates the point. This was never an investigation. This has been a political operation from before it began. This entire thing has been a feint. It has been an effort to make people think that it was a deep investigation involving the greatest of intelligence agencies trying to track down data to prove that Donald Trump colluded with Russia.<\/p>\n
In fact, it\u2019s never been anything but a purely political operation, and the reason… A lot of people are starting to come to this belief now. I\u2019m glad to see it. You know, people who for two years have been analyzing this as a legal matter, as an investigative\/counterintelligence matter — and have been analyzing it as such and having breaking it down and trying to explain it to people as such. They have finally, after enough time has passed, figured out that there was nothing about this other than the criminal justice system has now been weaponized by the American left.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been politicized and corrupted, and that\u2019s why there are all these investigations to go to find out what really happened, the inspector general and Barr\u2019s own investigation. Because the left, the Washington establishment, whatever you want to call them, politicize the DOJ. They politicize the intelligence apparatus. They politicized the FBI, and they weaponized all these things as weapons to be used against a Republican president and his party. Well, it\u2019s the same thing here when you have tax cuts.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s something that is specifically tied to Republicans; therefore, it\u2019s gotta be destroyed. The whole concept of tax cuts has to be destroyed. “They don\u2019t work! They\u2019re a lie. Your taxes don\u2019t really get cut. You don\u2019t end up with any more money. The Republicans are doing what they always do,” they say, “they are lying to you.” But now, here come tariffs on China and the ChiComs have responded with tariffs on us. Now, all of a sudden, the Drive-Bys can\u2019t wait to tell you the truth about this. Two hours or so ago, the ChiComs announced that they\u2019re going to increase tariffs on about $60 billion worth of U.S. goods.<\/p>\n
That news is the latest excuse to drive the stock market down through the floor. Never mind it\u2019s gonna have a minimal effect on the economy, given that $60 billion is such a small number. The ChiComs are also threatening to start cashing in some of their Treasuries and cashing out, but they will never do that. Well, I don\u2019t want to say “never,” but that\u2019s just a threat. It is time to hang with Trump on this. He\u2019s absolutely doing the right thing.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why I spent two days last week informing everybody of what the Trump presidency is really all about<\/a>, and it\u2019s reordering this world order established after World War II that basically had us getting our pockets picked because we won, because we were the lone superpower. So we had to go out of our way to prove we didn\u2019t threaten anybody. We had to go out of our way to prove we wouldn\u2019t to want conquer anybody .We had to go out of our way to prove we were the nice guys, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n It led to a series of unfair economic and trade arrangements. And Trump has been talking about the unfairness of Chinese trade since the 1990s, by the way, so he\u2019s totally consistent on this. But the ChiComs have decided to increase tariffs on about $60 billion worth of U.S. goods. It\u2019s a small number when compared to the totality of the United States GDP. The reason the number is so low is because the ChiComs import so few U.S. goods.<\/p>\n I mean, they\u2019re putting tariffs on goods they import, but they import so few and so little that it really is an insignificant number. It is more a statement, a political statement. It\u2019s the ChiComs standing up and saying, “Oh, yeah? Oh, yeah? You\u2019re gonna try to change this arrangement so that it\u2019s not unfair to you? Fine. Well, we\u2019ll hit you back.” It\u2019s a game of will right now that\u2019s going on. We, on the other hand — and this will express the difference. We import close to $400 billion worth of ChiCom products. They import an infinitesimally small percentage of that.<\/p>\n Anyway, up until the time that Trump raised the tariffs on the ChiComs last year, China had… (I know numbers are hard to follow on radio, but do your best.) China had a 10% tariff on all U.S. goods while our tariff on Chinese goods was 4%. Now, a lot of people think that these tariffs are brand-new, that there weren\u2019t any tariffs until Trump came along. No! Folks, it\u2019s one of my points last week. It has been an unfair arrangement for decades.<\/p>\n China had a 10% tariff on all U.S. goods while our tariff on Chinese goods was 4%. It was like that for decades. There was no outrage from the Drive-By Media. There was no outrage from the Washington establishment because they\u2019re the ones that put the deal together. Donald Trump is the one who noticed it. Trump did not start this again. Even after Trump increased the tariff on Chinese goods to 10%, our tariffs were still lower than what the ChiComs had on our goods.<\/p>\n It\u2019s not like Trump has started a trade war. As we\u2019ve said for months now, folks, Trump is just finally addressing the trade war China has been waging on us for decades. What else would you call it? They import very little of what we produce, and what they do import, they slap massive tariffs on. Meanwhile, we import gobs of stuff from them. We don\u2019t have hardly any tariffs (until now) on any of that that, and it led to a $500 billion annual trade deficit with the ChiComs.<\/p>\n This is what Trump means when he says, “Our stupid leaders were giving them $500 billion a year.” This is where the figure comes from, and we set that up as part of the world order, and it was the same way we\u2019ve dealt with member nations in NATO and in other international economic and trade agreements. We agreed to take it on the chin. Look, I know you\u2019re shouting at me, “Why would anybody do this?” You have to understand the… Not just the liberal mind.<\/p>\n You have to understand the establishment and elite mind, and by that, I mean the people who believe they run the country. Many of them are not elected. They are just titans of this or that, many of them in the State Department. It\u2019s all rooted in the idea that it just isn\u2019t stable if the world only has one superpower, even if it\u2019s us, because in these people\u2019s minds we are not necessarily the good guys. And that\u2019s really the root of it. You may have forgotten this.<\/p>\n Madeleine Albright, when she was the secretary of state for Slick Willie, when the Berlin Wall came down, she fretted over it. She was very distressed. You know why? Because with the Soviet Union imploding, it left the United States as the single superpower in the world, and that made the world (in their stupid view) unstable, because if you don\u2019t have the concept the United States is the good guys, then you can see the world that way.<\/p>\n We\u2019re the only superpower, and therefore the world is unstable — and in their minds, the world was unstable because we become an instant threat because of our singular superpower status. But if nobody\u2019s out there presenting the United States as the solution to the world\u2019s problems, if nobody\u2019s out there presenting the United States as the good guys — and they don\u2019t. I remember during the Obama administration, the ChiComs would send trade negotiators over, and the trade negotiators from the ChiComs would say things like:<\/p>\n “You\u2019ve got no business telling us how to run our country. Look at your civil rights abuses. You had slavery! You had this; you had that,” and the Obama negotiators agreed! They said, “We have no right to enforce a moral penalty or moral behavior on the ChiComs. We have no right to enforce a fair deal dealing with China because we do have our own baggage.” That was not exclusive to Obama. That is the attitude of the (whatever you gonna call it) administrative state, the Washington establishment.<\/p>\n By the way, to give you further evidence of this, I went back (because I knew I had seen this) to the New York Times, October 17th, 2016. This is one of the reasons why Kathryn and I wrote the Rush Revere time-travel adventures with great Americans series<\/a>, incredible Americans. The headline of this New York Times story (it\u2019s one of their big Sunday news features) is: “Why We Still Care about America\u2019s Founders.”<\/a> Why we still care? As though maybe some people don\u2019t and it\u2019s…?<\/p>\n Listen to the way it starts: “There\u2019s a lot to dislike about the founding fathers and the war they and others fought for American independence. The stirring assertion that ‘all men are created equal\u2019 did not, of course, apply to 500,000 black slaves… Nor was it valid for Native Americans, women or indigents. Those who remained loyal to the British crown, and even fence-straddlers skeptical of armed rebellion, were often subjected to dreadful treatment, including public shaming,” this is what the founders did, “torture, exile and execution.<\/p>\n “In a defensive war waged for liberty and to secure basic rights, the Americans invaded Canada in an effort to win by force of arms what could not be won by negotiation…” This is just three years ago, 2-1\/2 years ago, the New York Times has a story that basically confirms what I have been trying to get people to believe for the longest time. The American left does not like this country, does not believe that any of these original sins that are part of our founding can ever be fixed, can never be corrected, because they are permanent.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a long-ass story. I had to staple it together, it\u2019s so many pages. So the idea that America is flawed, that America is an unjust superpower, that America is responsible for an unstable world as the lone superpower, explains why we give away the store. Which explains why we let the U.N. tell us what to do and pick our back pocket. It\u2019s why so many American presidents, whatever the U.N. says about it — climate change or getting out of South Africa — we\u2019re right in there agreeing with it because we have to accept the premise that we are not the good guys.<\/p>\n We have to accept the premise that we have our flaws; we have no right to preach to anybody else about anything — and that is absurd. There isn\u2019t a single human being alive that hasn\u2019t made mistakes. You have kids. You\u2019ve raised them. Are you disqualified as an instructor, as a mentor because of the mistakes you\u2019ve made in your earlier life? You tell your kids the right way to behave. You tell them not to steal. You tell \u2019em not to do this be with not to do that. You tell \u2019em how to behave, you raise them the way you think is right, to be the best you can be and your kids say, “Well, I know you got drunk on a keg of beer when you were 17. You got no right to preach to me.”<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Here we have Madeleine Albright. Leave that up a minute. Leave that up. (singing along with it) Doesn\u2019t sound like a video game to me. I don\u2019t play video games. I don\u2019t know what a video game sounds like. Anyway, they\u2019re playing this tune… There is vocal in it, but that\u2019s not the point. It\u2019s Black Light and it\u2019s about the Dream Syndicate.<\/p>\n All right. All right. I want to get to this Madeleine Albright quote. This story is back in 1998. “The Clinton administration,” she said, “is striving to expand the number of countries that are democratic and have free-market systems. We very much don\u2019t want to be out there by ourselves as the organizer and the only superpower. People don\u2019t believe that. They think we just want to be king of the hill, but we do not.”<\/p>\n Well, why the hell not?<\/p>\n If we\u2019re the good guys, why don\u2019t we want to be the king of the hill? If we are here as the solution to the world\u2019s problems — if we\u2019re the good guys, if we are the beacon of light and freedom and all of this — why do we not want to be king of the hill? Trump wants to be king of the hill, but he doesn\u2019t want to pound other people into the sand to get there. He wants — and he\u2019s been very clear about this. He thinks that every president, prime minister, premier around the world in free societies, ought to be doing what he\u2019s doing: Trying to make their countries the best they can be.<\/p>\n And if everybody\u2019s doing this in unison, then everybody benefits. But in the Madeleine Albright world where everything\u2019s a zero-sum game, we can\u2019t become king of the hill unless somebody gets squashed. It\u2019s the way the Democrats look at the economy: “If somebody earns a lot, somebody has to lose a lot in order for the winner to get his.” It\u2019s not the way the works. And Trump looks at this and says this is absolute stupidity. We\u2019re the good guys. We save the world. We promote liberty and freedom. Why wouldn\u2019t we want to continue to grow? Why wouldn\u2019t we want to stand for those values and help spread them around?<\/p>\n That\u2019s what he\u2019s essentially trying to do. That\u2019s what his presidency is.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/APP-051019-America-First.jpg\")
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<\/a>Which is what then gives them, in their minds, the right and the requirement to essentially attack this country and to transform it, to remake it. So now we have this socialist movement of young Millennials, and it\u2019s all rooted in the fact that the American founding was so deeply flawed and dishonest. This headline would be more accurate if it said, “Why Do We Still Care About America\u2019s Founders?”<\/a> Because they get savaged in this story.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Albright.jpg\")
That\u2019s essentially what\u2019s happening. The idea that we at one time may have had some flaws — never mind that they\u2019ve been fixed — disqualifies us for any kind of economic or moral leadership. Well, Trump doesn\u2019t believe any of this. Trump thinks this is crazy. Why should the United States, as the world\u2019s lone superpower, basically punish ourselves, particularly if the effort is oriented around showing people we don\u2019t mean \u2019em any harm and we just want them to like us? That\u2019s what Trump is trying to fix in addition to very specific unfairness of the trade arrangements we have with the ChiComs.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>“So the playing field is not level and is especially tilted against us given that Beijing\u2019s non-tariff barriers in China can make it prohibitively expensive to do business there. We have an open market competing against the world\u2019s second-largest economy whose doors are slammed shut,” and this has been accepted by American leadership for decades. There\u2019s also another element to this. “What do we have to do to make sure they don\u2019t nuke us? (sniffles) What do we have to do to make sure they don\u2019t drop any bombs us? What do we have to do to make sure they don\u2019t attack us?”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/APP-040219-Talks-Techj-Defiant-Rush.jpg\")
The original Kardia, the original Apple Watch are one-lead — and they\u2019re good! Don\u2019t misunderstand. I mean, doctors accept them. You can send PDF files of your trace, your EKG from either Kardia or the Apple Watch. A doctor will accept them. Both these devices have saved people\u2019s lives. So Kardia says, “Okay. We need to up the game.” So they\u2019ve come out with a new device that is a six-lead EKG, which will give the user even more data, more refined data.<\/p>\n