{"id":312858,"date":"2019-06-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=312858"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T20:08:02","slug":"trump-shows-them-what-they-cant-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/06\/19\/trump-shows-them-what-they-cant-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Shows Them What They Can\u2019t Match"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: That\u2019s right, my friends, you are in the right place to have everything that happened last night and all the reaction to it put in proper perspective. You are right where you need to be. And when we\u2019re finished today, you\u2019re not gonna need to go anywhere else.<\/p>\n

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In fact, this program probably would be a gold mine of information to the liberal Democrats and the Democrat Party if they would only listen to it. But their arrogance and their conceit prevents them from learning anything, so I\u2019m not worried about giving anything away because they will discount it simply because I am saying it. I\u2019m a conservative, I\u2019m all the cliches.<\/p>\n

And, plus, I\u2019m just a guy on the radio. I don\u2019t know anything. I mention this because people always ask me, “Do you think you should maybe dial back some of this expert analysis? ‘Cause you don\u2019t want the Democrats to figure this out.”<\/p>\n

I said, \u201cYeah, I understand, but I\u2019m not worried about them figuring it out. If they haven\u2019t figured it out by now, they don\u2019t want to.\u201d And, folks, they don\u2019t want to have to beat Trump by figuring this out. They want to beat Trump by being able to follow what they think is their own superior instincts, intelligence, experience, and all of that.<\/p>\n

And, like I say, they do not innovate, they cannot modernize, they cannot reform. All they can do is go back to the past and look at past glories and then try to fit everything in the present day back to some event in the past, like Watergate now and Trump collusion with Russia. They are refusing to learn what happened right in front of their eyes in 2015 and 2016. Much of it is being repeated, although on the Trump side it\u2019s being updated and modernized. Now there\u2019s a record and promises kept, to go along with what Trump was promising only back in 2016.<\/p>\n

And everywhere you look, the Democrats have nothing to offer. There\u2019s no counter. Look at Biden, he puts out a tweet.<\/a> This is how bad it is. Biden put out a tweet last night. “Let\u2019s be clear. Let\u2019s be clear.” You know, I love people that start that way. Must be you\u2019re gonna be confusing in your natural state and so you have to point out “let\u2019s be clear.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s kind of like saying \u201cat the end of the day.\u201d Why do we have to wait until the end of the day? Why don\u2019t you tell me what you think right now? And you know what I\u2019m starting to really get irritated by? Say you\u2019re asking somebody a question or you\u2019re interviewing somebody. \u201cWhat did you think of that putt limping out in the eight \u2013”<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I was sitting there \u2013”<\/p>\n

What do you mean “so”? So what? People are using “so” and “you know” almost interchangeably. As a communication specialist, I notice these things. And here\u2019s Biden: “Let\u2019s be clear.” Because normally he isn\u2019t. “President Trump inherited a growing economy from the Obama-Biden administration, and now he\u2019s in the process of squandering it.”<\/p>\n

Folks, the Obama-Biden economy had a maximum growth rate, when averaged out for the eight years of their terms, 1%! One percent economic growth! And they both told us, particularly Obama, that this was the new normal. Everybody better get used to this. These days of everybody thinking they\u2019re gonna do better than their parents, those days are over. The United States has kind of been living large unjustifiably all these years. Time to pay the piper. Time to pay the dues. Yeah, some of these jobs are lost. They\u2019re not coming back. What\u2019s Trump gonna do, just wave a magic wand?<\/p>\n

I mean, we were all there when they were trying to make the case for “We\u2019re the people to manage this decline and make it as least painful for everybody as we can.\u201d That was their agenda. And so now, after two and a half years of Trump, the economic uptick is undeniable, the economic growth rate is over 3%. Unemployment record low for Hispanics and African-Americans. The stock market\u2019s a record high.<\/p>\n

None of this happened during the Obama years. They didn\u2019t want it to happen! The big difference is the Democrats cannot make this kind of thing happen \u2019cause they don\u2019t want to. They don\u2019t want a booming economy that promotes self-sufficiency and self-reliance. It\u2019s the last thing they want. But they\u2019ve got nothing to counter with.<\/p>\n

\"\"So now here\u2019s Biden out there lying that this is really the Obama-Biden economy and that Trump is in the process of squandering it? How do you squander an economy that you have more than doubled? I mean, look. These people are literally painted into a corner on practically every single issue, but none more so than the economy. And now these stories are starting to creep into it mainstream, “the unreliability of polling.”<\/p>\n

There are more stories in my Stacks of Stuff today<\/a>: Polling today no longer relevant. Polling today impossible to get accurate. All kinds of things are happening here because they\u2019re making the same mistakes. They\u2019re telling themselves that Trump\u2019s already lost. They are telling themselves that whoever the Democrat nominee is has already won in landslide.<\/p>\n

Even after watching that rally last night, you know what they\u2019re harping on? Major Garrett. Where\u2019s he now? CBS? Major Garrett said (imitating Garrett), “I saw something last night I\u2019ve never seen before. I\u2019ve never seen this. I saw people leaving early. I saw some people leaving before Trump had finished his speech. And then after Trump had finished his speech, I saw some people making tracks to get out of there. There wasn\u2019t any hanging around to be part of the festivities. I\u2019ve never seen that before at a Trump rally.”<\/p>\n

Yeah, lots of people hang around after events are over to do what? People left after the event. This is news. The event was over and people left. Breaking news, CBS: Trump in trouble. Event ended, people left. Uh-oh. Really? “Well, it\u2019s different, Mr. Limbaugh, it\u2019s different. They used to hang around and pal around with each other.” Well, it\u2019s four years ago. Certain levels of excitement change, reasons for excitement change. I mean, nobody can deny this isn\u2019t new anymore, which is all the more fascinating.<\/p>\n

Trump rallies are not new. There\u2019s nothing you can do to make them new. There\u2019s nothing you can do. Once you discover — once you grow up and you learn a bunch of things you thought of as a kid aren\u2019t true, you know how hard it is to recapture the magic when you were a kid. I mean, these rallies have been happening now for four years, they\u2019re happening so frequently that the newness is gone. That factor is not relevant.<\/p>\n

And despite that, there are still people showing up in record numbers. This is what the Democrats ought to be noticing instead of trying to find that people leave early, a few, or that they\u2019re not hanging around long after the event. The fact of the matter is, a Trump rally is a Trump rally, and yet after all of these years and all these rallies, when one is announced, there are overwhelming requests to get into it.<\/p>\n

Now, before we go to the audio of this, let me do a quick breakdown of what I think are the perfection points in terms of execution and performance in a Trump political rally such as last night. And most of them are good and most of them are good for the following reasons: Trump knew he was gonna speak for an hour and 15 minutes or an hour and 20. He knows there\u2019s no intermission. He knows he\u2019s not gonna hand it off to a musical guest. He knows he\u2019s not going to hand it off to a band.<\/p>\n