{"id":325601,"date":"2019-10-17T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=325601"},"modified":"2019-10-18T16:49:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:49:51","slug":"what-pelosis-stunt-tells-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/10\/17\/what-pelosis-stunt-tells-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What Pelosi\u2019s White House Walkout Stunt Tells Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: I\u2019ll bet many of you are saying, &#8220;Rush, please don\u2019t waste any time talking about Pelosi\u2019s stunt today. We can get that anywhere. We don\u2019t need the ABCs. We don\u2019t need the back-to-front, front-to-back explanation of this. We know what\u2019s going on.&#8221; I know, and I agree with you. But, nevertheless, folks, there\u2019s some things that need to be said about it. It has become the total media narrative. The whole thing was planned and the whole thing was strategized.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of ongoing effort by Pelosi to create this massive illusion of incompetence and criminal behavior so that she can get Trump impeached without having to call a vote for it. That\u2019s what this is. She doesn\u2019t want to have to put this to a vote. She doesn\u2019t want to go anywhere formal. She wants to try to get this driven by public opinion. They\u2019re desperate to create the Nixon situation out there where the Republicans are forced to abandon the president because the president has lost his own base support.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325596\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Trump-Meeting-Pelosi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Trump-Meeting-Pelosi.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Trump-Meeting-Pelosi-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the attempt here. They have been attempting to drive a wedge between Trump voters and Trump since Election Day 2016. It really is what this is about. I mean, the details are the details, but the objective is she doesn\u2019t want to do a formal vote. She doesn\u2019t want to have to go to a trial in the Senate because that\u2019s gonna lead to an acquittal, and that just blows everything out of the water. She wants and is using the Drive-By&#8230; Well, she\u2019s not using it.<\/p>\n<p>The Drive-By Media is actively cooperating in this attempt to create this image that your president is corrupt, that he\u2019s sick, that he\u2019s dangerously out of touch, that he\u2019s incompetent. That\u2019s what this is, and I\u2019m gonna give you the opposite picture today. I\u2019m gonna tell you how it\u2019s the Democrats on the run. I\u2019m gonna tell you how it\u2019s the Democrats who are panicking after that horrible debate that they had on Tuesday night, and that that\u2019s one of the reasons that Pelosi pulled her stunt yesterday!<\/p>\n<p>That debate was pathetic. It was horrible. The people who did the best in that debate are people that don\u2019t have a chance of getting the nomination. Fauxcahontas, who many now think is the frontrunner, was disastrous! She will not explain to anybody how in the world she\u2019s going to pay for her proposals. She will not go there. The answer is tax increases, but she\u2019s not gonna commit the mistake that Mondull made in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>To refresh your memories &#8212; because I realize many of you were not alive in \u201984 or not old enough to be paying attention. Or you were and you just didn\u2019t care, because this program wasn\u2019t on the air in 1984, at least not here. And, as such, you had not yet gotten interested in this stuff. Ronaldus Magnus, running for reelection, was en route to what everybody knew was gonna be a landslide. The Democrats nominated Mondull because he had been a loyal war horse.<\/p>\n<p>They knew they were gonna get shellacked. So let Mondull be the nominee. Let Mondull go down in flames. Don\u2019t waste a viable candidate of the future and pay Mondull off. Let him get his fundraising. Let him have his acclaim. Let him get the perks that go along with it. And at the Democrat convention in San Francisco where I was (it was my first time there, by the way), Walter Mondull actually promised to people that he would raise their taxes.<\/p>\n<p>He was very proudly, very proudly saying, &#8220;I promise you I\u2019m gonna raise your taxes! I just told you. Reagan\u2019s gonna raise your taxes, too, but you won\u2019t tell you.&#8221; That was Mondale\u2019s big statement. That was in the acceptance speech. Well, we know what happened. Bye-bye Mondull. He went down to a 49-state landslide defeat. So Fauxcahontas is not gonna make that mistake. That\u2019s the answer to the question that they were all badgering her on: &#8220;How are you gonna pay for all this health care? How are you gonna pay for all this whatever it is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She kept say, &#8220;We\u2019re gonna tax the rich! We\u2019re gonna get the people over $50 million! We\u2019re gonna make \u2019em 2\u023c cents for $1 they earn over $50 million &#8212; and we\u2019re gonna soak \u2019em and then we\u2019re gonna make them pay for it.&#8221; Nobody was buying it. In the meantime, Crazy Bernie out there is assuring the middle class that their taxes are gonna go up. Crazy Bernie\u2019s theory is that people will be happy to pay for utopia. Well, that\u2019s disastrous too. You just don\u2019t tell people you\u2019re gonna raise their taxes!<\/p>\n<p>Particularly when part of your agenda is to offer &#8220;free&#8221; health care for illegals who now number, officially, 22 million (as we\u2019ve always known) not 11 million. So Pelosi had to do something. I\u2019m telling you, this debate was a disaster. It was dull. It was a dryball three hours. There was no excitement. There was no pizzazz. There was no charisma. There was no connection with the audience. This was a bunch of candidates talking to their friends who were called moderators. I\u2019m telling, folks, it was&#8230; (sigh) The Democrats know this, and their consultants know this and are telling them this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Trump-Meeting-Pelosi-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Trump-Meeting-Pelosi-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101719-Trump-Meeting-Pelosi-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only people excited by that debate are the people the Democrats already have, and they don\u2019t have to work to keep them. They don\u2019t have to do anything. They are people who already hate Trump or are loyal to Democrats for whatever foolhardy reasons. But that debate didn\u2019t reach out and grab anybody, didn\u2019t excite anybody. So Pelosi knows it. So next up is a trip to the White House. So let me get this straight, see if I understand this.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at a meeting between Democrat leaders and the president in the Cabinet Room at the White House &#8212; a room, by the way, I have been in often (just saying) &#8212; Pelosi pitches a hissy fit and storms out because Trump has a &#8220;meltdown.&#8221; Trump had a meltdown. Trump\u2019s going crazy! Trump can\u2019t deal with all the criticism he\u2019s getting over pulling troops out of Syria. Steny Hoyer and Chuck You Schumer (accompanying Pelosi) ran right out of the White House &#8212; and magically, there were the microphones already there waiting for them even though they were leaving the meeting early.<\/p>\n<p>So really what it boils down to is Pelosi is upset that Trumps pulls 28 troops out of Syria. When you boil all this down, isn\u2019t that what happened? I mean, she can say that she left there because Trump had a meltdown because Trump doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing because Trump\u2019s dangerous because Trump\u2019s sick, &#8220;We need to pray for Trump,&#8221; blah, blah, blah. But in essence, what was she playing off? She\u2019s playing off Trump with the troop draw-down in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Strip way all the spin, that\u2019s what\u2019s going on. Think about the irony of this for a second. Think about all of the issues that Trump is taking away from these people when you get right down to it. Whatever Trump comes out in favor of, they reflexively have to be opposed to. Where is, for example, Code Pink? Do you know what Code Pink is? Code Pink is a loony tune bunch of left-wing anti-war supporters who show up &#8212; somehow magically get invitations to appear at congressional hearings, Senate hearings, you name it &#8212; and they are known to be anti-war.<\/p>\n<p>Where are they?<\/p>\n<p>Where are they praising Trump? Where are they criticizing the Democrats? Code Pink has gone silent. They\u2019ve got nothing to say here. They\u2019re making a feeble attempt at attacking Trump, which proves that Code Pink is not even honest about what they are. They\u2019re nothing more than pro-Democrat activists just using anti-war as a platform. This is the move the Democrats have been advocating for who knows how long. The Democrats want us out of everywhere. They\u2019ve always wanted us out of everywhere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101619-Dem-Debate-RUSH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101619-Dem-Debate-RUSH.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101619-Dem-Debate-RUSH-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Democrats tried to engineer a defeat in the Iraq war. The Democrats tried to engineer a defeat in the overall War on Terror. The Democrats have been saying, &#8220;We gotta get out of Afghanistan!&#8221; They told Obama, &#8220;You gotta get us out!&#8221; Obama said, &#8220;I\u2019ll get you out! I promise, I\u2019ll get you out.&#8221; He didn\u2019t. He expanded the number of troops in Afghanistan. Now all of a sudden, the Democrats are in favor of war? Ha! Democrats in favor of war in Syria? The Democrats are now in favor of deploying troops?<\/p>\n<p>How do you think this is gonna play with Democrat voters? This is not what the Democrats traditionally stand for, and their voters know it. I will guarantee you\u2019re not gonna see news about it, but Democrat voters are scratching their heads. The overriding thing that Pelosi has on her side is Trump hatred. She thinks that her Democrat loyal voters will support her and the party in anything if it\u2019s oriented toward getting rid of Trump, even if it\u2019s one hypocrisy after another.<\/p>\n<p>She is confident that Democrat voters will all of a sudden miraculously support more troops to Syria (chuckles) if it means getting rid of Donald Trump &#8212; and she may be right. But I think overall, she\u2019s playing with fire. So now Donald Trump has turned these people into hawks, into military hawks. Here is a woman who has voted against&#8230; This is Pelosi. Pelosi has voted against every use of military force since she has been in Congress. It was close on the war on terror.<\/p>\n<p>She kind of had to go with the flow on that in the original foray into Afghanistan. But, man, when the pictures of Abu Ghraib showed up, she was the first to lead the turnaround on support for the U.S. military in Afghanistan following 9\/11. This is a woman who almost alone opposed the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Don\u2019t doubt me. You may not remember it, but she\u2019s been the leader of this bunchon this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s been the Speaker of the House or the majority leader in the House when they\u2019re in the minority for as long as we\u2019ve been doing this. Nancy Pelosi is the woman who tried to defund soldiers in Afghanistan and in Iraq in order to force Bush to bring \u2019em home. Nancy Pelosi is the woman who cheered when Obama pulled our troops out of Iraq, which opened the door to ISIS. Now she is apoplectic because Trump has pulled a handful of troops out of Syria. So, do we have this right?<\/p>\n<p>You may think Trump bumbled here. I\u2019m not talking about that. What I\u2019m countering here is this very, very cleverly constructed Democrat-media narrative today that Donald Trump has lost his mind, that Trump\u2019s off his rocker, that Trump melted down. This is all part of the ongoing effort Pelosi and the Democrats are running to create massive public support to get rid of Trump, force him to resign under threat of impeachment, just like happened with Nixon.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the model here, folks, because she doesn\u2019t want to go to full vote. She doesn\u2019t really want to have a trial in the Senate. That\u2019s why when you hear McConnell saying, &#8220;I want this trial before the end of the year. I want this trial startin\u2019 here by November,&#8221; he\u2019s goading her. Nobody&#8230; (chuckling) Trial in November? They haven\u2019t written the articles of impeachment! Well, they haven\u2019t presented. I\u2019m sure Schiff has them in a little safe-deposit box somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Now, on top of all this, Nancy Pelosi is being hailed for her principled stance and her courage for throwing a fit and storming out of a meeting! Trump is passing around a letter which proves that the Democrat-media narrative on this isn\u2019t true! It\u2019s a letter between him and Erdogan of Turkey, and Pelosi refused to even read the letter. She turned it face down. That\u2019s when she stood up, pointed her finger at Trump, and then ran out of there with Chuck You Schumer and Steny Hoyer trailing close behind.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-167009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ObamaBrewerTarmacBACK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"585\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you all remember (you may when I remind you) during the ongoing battle between the state of Arizona and the federal government over immigration law enforcement, the governor of Arizona at the time the Jan Brewer, and Obama went down to Arizona to try to quell the latest controversy. Remember Arizona passed their own version of immigration law because Obama was not enforcing federal immigration law. So they passed their own law, which mirrored the federal law. So they were giving them the right to enforce it.<\/p>\n<p>Obama sued them saying that you have no control over immigration. That\u2019s a federal mandate, it\u2019s a federal jurisdiction, and states can\u2019t make up their own immigration law. To which the answer was, &#8220;What about San Francisco? What about all these California sanctuary cities? What do you mean, states can\u2019t do their own immigration law?&#8221; Anyway, Obama went there and it\u2019s at the airport. He gets off the plane, they have a meeting, and she is seen pointing her finger at him in the middle of a conversation &#8212; and the media had a meltdown!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You don\u2019t disrespect Obama that way! Look at this white woman pointing her finger at the first African-American president.&#8221; That was the news narrative. She was castigated. She was ripped to shreds. She was being disrespectful &#8212; double disrespectful because of the racial component. Never mind the fact that he towered over her. She probably comes up to (sigh) &#8212; I don\u2019t know &#8212; Obama\u2019s neck at the most. She looking at him and pointing, just the kind of pointing you do for emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>But the media said, &#8220;Look at her! Look at her! She\u2019s calling him out. She pointing! That\u2019s disrespectful.&#8221; Now, is there anything about Pelosi disrespecting Trump, standing up in the Cabinet Room pointing her finger? Noooo. Not at all. I\u2019m just saying, folks, make no mistake: This whole thing was preplanned, including Hoyer and Chuck You Schumer backing Pelosi up. It was all staged. Pelosi was just relishing the opportunity here to confront Trump and then claim that he had the meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>So that she can then go back to the House and then tell everybody (impression), &#8220;We should pray for the president\u2019s mental health,&#8221; and thus imply once again that he should be removed because he\u2019s unbalanced. They\u2019ve done this act before. They pulled this. You realize this is the second time that she\u2019s asked people to pray for Trump\u2019s mental health? This is the second time, minimum, that she has suggested that Trump is unbalanced. The most recent time The Three Amigos pulled this stunt was back on May 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>May 22nd: &#8220;A White House meeting that was supposed to be about infrastructure spending broke down after Pelosi accused Trump of covering up his collusion with Russia,&#8221; and she did that again yesterday too! In this meeting, pointed her finger, she says, &#8220;All roads lead to Putin!&#8221; Putin! What\u2019s Putin got to do with any of this? Typical headline from the May 22nd episode from Vice News. Quote, &#8220;Nancy Pelosi Said &#8216;Cover-Up\u2019 and Trump Had a Complete Meltdown.&#8221; May 22nd. They\u2019ve done this before. It\u2019s all an act! Don\u2019t doubt me.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: We\u2019ll go to Houston. This is Patrick. You\u2019re up first today, Patrick. Great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hey. Thanks, Rush. Yeah, you know, with Congress\u2019 approval polling perennially around 15 or 20%, yeah, I gotta say that Trump calling Pelosi a third-rate politician is quite the compliment to her, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So you mentioned the 20%. You don\u2019t think this is any big deal? You don\u2019t think Pelosi is gonna have any impact on changing public opinion about Trump among Republicans?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296058\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-010918-Schumer-Pelosi-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-010918-Schumer-Pelosi-004.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/APP-Master-APP-010918-Schumer-Pelosi-004-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>CALLER: No. It\u2019s like Groundhog Day all over again. I mean, this just happened about two months ago when Schumer and Pelosi go into a meeting with Trump, and five minutes later they come out and they\u2019re all indignant, and it doesn\u2019t move the needle at all.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, you\u2019re right. In fact, let me go through this again. Thanks for the call. I appreciate it. It was May the 22nd, and it was an exact replica of today. It would be better stated that yesterday was an exact replica of what happened on May 22nd. The most recent time that these same three people &#8212; Pelosi, Chuck You Schumer, and Steny Hoyer &#8212; had a White House meeting (supposed to be about infrastructure spending), it broke down soon after it began after Pelosi accused Trump of covering up his collusion with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>May 22nd. I mean, that\u2019s just, what, five months ago? Four? So in the meeting about infrastructure spending, Pelosi accuses Trump of covering up his collusion with Russia. A headline from that episode from Vice News: &#8220;Nancy Pelosi Said &#8216;Cover-Up\u2019 and Trump Had a Complete Meltdown.&#8221; Why, isn\u2019t that the same word that Pelosi used yesterday? (impression) &#8220;The president had a meltdown. I gotta go pray for the president\u2019s mental health!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time. It is a repeat. It\u2019s a replay. Now, some of you might think, &#8220;What the hell does Trump invite \u2019em up there for? He knows what\u2019s gonna happen. He should just refused to meet with \u2019em,&#8221; \u2019cause after that meeting, after May 22nd, by the way, Trump vowed that he would refuse to work with the Democrats as long as they\u2019re investigating him. He should have stuck to his vow. He shouldn\u2019t give them these opportunities to grandstand, \u2019cause he knows they\u2019re gonna do it.<\/p>\n<p>But see, what Trump is doing is demonstrating that he can be above all this. There\u2019s the work of the nation to get done, the serious issue out there: Syria, our withdrawal. Gotta do something about it. Gotta bring congressional leaders up to talk about it. Trump is trying to conduct the business of government. He\u2019s included all of the leaders from the various committees that are involved, that are relevant. So he\u2019s rolling the dice here that he will be seen as continuing to do his job.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s working while the rest of these people are playing partisan patty-cake. Of course, he\u2019s up against the media creating this false narrative. But I\u2019m going to tell you what\u2019s going on, folks. There\u2019s more impeachment polling data out today. Trump has, in one of the polls&#8230; I forget which it is off the top of my head. One of the polls the Democrats are using to suggest that public opinion is moving in favor of impeaching Trump, actually support for impeaching Trump on this stupid poll among Republicans dropped a point. It\u2019s not going in their direction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-324313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100419-Trump-Smile.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100419-Trump-Smile.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-100419-Trump-Smile-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>What they\u2019re trying to do is bust up the Trump coalition. That\u2019s the point. Just to repeat this again: All of this is an effort to get Trump to resign by forcing his voters to abandon him and thus forcing Republican support in Congress to abandon him. They\u2019re literally trying to recreate the Richard Nixon scenario. Now, that was 1974. So let me remind those of you who don\u2019t know about that what actually happened. We had the Watergate hearings. We had a bunch of bombshell hearings about tapes, 18 minutes of missing tapes.<\/p>\n<p>We had John Dean. We had news of the Plumbers. It all went south on Nixon, and they were in the process of preparing formal impeachment hearings. But back then, Nixon didn\u2019t have me. Nixon didn\u2019t have an alternative media, and so Nixon lost support among the Republicans, after he had been reelected in a landslide in 1972. He had been reelected. So Howard Baker was sent as the emissary from Republicans on Capitol Hill to the White House to tell Nixon that he had lost all support.<\/p>\n<p>That if it came to impeachment, he would be convicted and tossed out &#8212; and so Nixon resigned. This is what they\u2019re attempting to do now. They want that same scenario, and for that to happen, the 90% of Republicans that support Trump are gonna have to abandon him. Not all, but a significant number. Pelosi is trying to make that happen with nothing but media. She said just earlier this week that she\u2019s not gonna do a formal impeachment vote. &#8220;We\u2019re not there yet.&#8221; She doesn\u2019t want to have to do this.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn\u2019t want to have to go to a trial in the Senate where Trump would be acquitted. So she\u2019s working with every other Democrat in the media to create this illusion &#8212; this image &#8212; that Trump is unfit, unsound, mentally deteriorating, &#8220;we need to pray for him,&#8221; and this is the second time she\u2019s tried the stunt. It\u2019s almost word-for-word from what it was back on May 22. That\u2019s what this is. And pretty soon, you know, we\u2019re gonna get to the equivalent of Carl Bernstein and Woodward coming back, which we probably get every day on CNN anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So, you know, Syrian troop situation, pulling Americans out? &#8220;That\u2019s the last straw! Okay!&#8221; By the way, by the way, another little headline heads-up. There\u2019s a story in the Stack, Schiff and company are moving away from the phone call now. Well, there was never gonna be any impeachment over the phone call. That was also part of this massive effort to create an illusion that Trump is unfit, that he\u2019s incompetent, that he\u2019s corrupt.<\/p>\n<p>But impeaching him over this phone call was never gonna get anywhere and it hasn\u2019t. So now they\u2019re focusing on trying to make it look like all of Trump\u2019s supporters and employees and people that work for him are now caving and stabbing hum in the back and showing up to testify. It\u2019s all a game. Folks, it\u2019s all an illusion! I keep saying this in the desperate attempt to persuade as many people within the sound of my known voice what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the phones we go. Rhonda in South Bend, Indiana. Great to have you. Hi. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Hi, Rush. Two things about these nonstop attacks on President Trump. As a Trump voter, I am taking that very personally, because it seems to me that they think I am too stupid to make a wise choice, and so it feels to me &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s worse than that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You\u2019re right but it\u2019s worse than that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: It\u2019s not that you\u2019re too stupid to make a wise choice. It\u2019s that your choice doesn\u2019t matter. Your choice doesn\u2019t matter. Your choice can be overturned. Your choice can be erased. Your choice can be reversed. Not just because you don\u2019t matter but because you did the wrong thing. You\u2019re too stupid to know what you did. Your vote doesn\u2019t count, is what this is saying.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Right, and that is such arrogance &#8212; and arrogance, I have learned, always blinds us, causes us to overestimate our own abilities, and we underestimate our opponents, or we underestimate those around us. And there will come a point in time when it will be our downfall. Now, it may not come as soon as we would like, but it does blind the person who is arrogant. So they\u2019re underestimating us. I\u2019m living my quiet life in my quiet home, and if I am feeling all these things &#8212; that this personal attack on Trump is now on me, too &#8212; then I have to believe that there are many other people across the country just like me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/10\/16\/usa-today-writer-goes-home-to-ohio-finds-optimism-under-trump\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-325228\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101419-Trump-Ohio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101419-Trump-Ohio.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/APP-101419-Trump-Ohio-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>RUSH: Oh, there are. CNN found them. <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2019\/10\/16\/usa-today-writer-goes-home-to-ohio-finds-optimism-under-trump\/\">The town hall that was the Democrat debate that was in Ohio<\/a>. They went out, they talked to people &#8212; Democrats &#8212; in Ohio and Michigan. They find out so many of them are for Trump, and they\u2019re shocked and stunned by it. And it\u2019s because of this arrogance you describe that prevents them from&#8230; Look, they\u2019re just trying to will what they want, what they think, what they feel to happen. They\u2019re not trying to persuade you.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re trying to depress you. They\u2019re trying to make you think you have no chance. They\u2019re trying to make you think Trump has no chance. They\u2019re trying to drive you away from the political system. They want you fed up with it. They want you throwing up your hands in frustration and saying, &#8220;The hell with this!&#8221; They want you leaving. You don\u2019t matter anyway. You\u2019re a Trump voter; you don\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>You pose an existential threat! Anything that can be done to make whatever you vote, whatever you think, mean nothing they will do. And you\u2019re right to be upset about it, to be mad about it, because all of these attacks on Trump really are about you. All of this anger at Trump is real, but it doesn\u2019t stop with Trump. The anger is at you who voted for him, all of you. That\u2019s who they\u2019re really seething at. But they think if they can get rid of Trump that they have negated your influence because they can keep this from happening a second time.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I appreciate the call, Rhonda.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: The truth of the matter is, folks, Schiff, Pencil Neck, the Democrats, they have lost the whistleblower narrative for impeaching Trump. That\u2019s gone! Do you know the whistleblower is not even gonna testify now? Sheila Jackson Lee said, &#8220;I want to hear from the whistleblower. I want to hear what he says.&#8221; Schiff said, &#8220;No, no! We don\u2019t need the whistleblower to testify.&#8221; Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because the whistleblower doesn\u2019t know anything! The transcript of the call has been released. The whole whistleblower narrative is broken. They have to move to something else. So what they\u2019ve done is they\u2019ve gone back to trying to tie impeachment to the Russiagate theory! Here\u2019s Pelosi yesterday in this meeting saying, &#8220;All roads lead to Putin&#8221;? Haven\u2019t we already had an investigation on this? They\u2019re just recycling it. They\u2019re creating this illusion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-093019-Trump-Zalensky-UKRAINE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-093019-Trump-Zalensky-UKRAINE.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/APP-093019-Trump-Zalensky-UKRAINE-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>No matter the Mueller report, no matter the facts, they\u2019re trying to overcome the facts with a series of never-ending, smothering lies that are repeated daily by the Drive-By Media. Even in her press conference today, Pelosi twice repeated the new talking point, &#8220;All roads lead to Putin.&#8221; No, they don\u2019t. I\u2019m gonna tell you where all roads lead. All roads lead to Obama. All roads lead to Obama. So now Pelosi and her gang are alleging that Trump pulled out of Syria to help Russia! They don\u2019t have anything!<\/p>\n<p>Folks, they have nothing! All they can do is recycle everything that\u2019s failed. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve been saying. They run the same play. They\u2019ll run it in a different formation. They\u2019ll run it to a different side, the weak side, the strong side, but they\u2019re running the same play. &#8220;All roads lead to Putin. Trump pulled out of Syria to help Russia.&#8221; And they\u2019re claiming that Trump tried to withhold military aid to Ukraine to help Putin, but he didn\u2019t withhold any aid. That\u2019s another lie. The aid was flowing already! 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