Rush Limbaugh

I find the way the left comes up with these analogies interesting. Trump is a child. We can\'t have a child run our country. The whole left has been turned into nothing but a bunch of people who never got out of day care, for crying out loud! They still live their lives as adults as though they\'re still in day care.

The left believes that we\'re an unwarranted, undeserving superpower because we\'re a racist, bigoted nation from our founding. So Obama presides over America\'s decline and tells everybody \"get used to it. This is the new norm.\" The new norm is no full-time jobs. The new norm is government getting bigger. The new norm is you having no wage increases for 15 years. This is what the new norm is, as we entered the global marketplace. And the American people don\'t want any part of that. That\'s not America.

We\'ve so, so fallen for the premise that only government can do certain things. But then when we get around to privatizing, people always applaud it. Well, I mean, the left never does. Privatize this; privatize that. Prisons, you name it. When you are endeavoring to create wealth by virtue of creating profit, you\'re gonna have a much more efficient operation a bunch of bureaucrats - who have no idea what they\'re doing, by the way.

If Trump does not start seeing things through an ideological prism, he will never understand the method, the motive, and the how and why these attacks against him happen. He doesn\'t see liberalism, and because he doesn\'t see liberalism, he can be outfoxed by it every day. He\'s not an ideological person.

I don\'t care what you want to call it. You can call it the deep state. You can get specific and you can say that it\'s members of the permanent government and there are plenty of those, that are in the intelligence community that simply will not accept the results of the Donald Trump election.

Now, you\'ll hear people call here on my show claiming they used to be lib and they\'ve changed their minds. That happens, but it happens naturally. It\'s not because I\'ve focused on trying to persuade people. I think while it\'s a noble objective to try to help people to see things the right way, this is a different psychological collection of human beings, and they are walled off from anything that\'s not them.

They are the hate group. The Democrat Party, that\'s their fuel. That\'s what energizes them is their hate. And for them to sit here and act like they\'re the most compassionate and tolerant and peaceful and understanding is just a bunch of hogwash. The American people that voted for Donald Trump are hated. The Republican Party is hated. The alternative conservative media is hated.

Donald Trump gets things done. That\'s all there is, getting things done, accomplishing objectives. And you watch. The reaction to Trump is, \"We can\'t do it that way. This is not the way we do it. That\'s not the way it\'s always been done.\" It\'s almost cliched, but that is what I expect is gonna happen, and the Democrats, I think, are gonna end up falling even flatter on their face than they have to date because they still are living in a state denial.

I think one of the things guiding this on the Russia-collusion side, is we\'ve been at this for over a year, or coming up on at least a year. It really intensified after the election with the Hillary Clinton campaign. By the way, speaking of Hillary Clinton, can you imagine what a victory this must feel like for the Clintons? She single-handedly - the Clinton campaign single-handedly - invented this vast Russian conspiracy 24 hours after the election.

At least in my perception, seeing accomplishments of minorities is a way to actually be critical of the country, not celebratory of it. The reason for celebrating all of these minorities - women, African-Americans, pick your minority - who do something that hasn\'t been done by somebody in that group before? The media goes nuts. It\'s one of the greatest things in the world! At the root of that is that America\'s unjust, that America is unfair, and that America discriminates, and that America is biased and bigoted and whatever.

Hillary throws that sexism victim card right down, starts crying, starts talking about how hard it\'s been. She was raising Chelsea, she was doing her best, and her husband was doing that, and the attacks are so mean and so cruel, the attacks are so vicious. And she hung in there. And then the other thing they do is say she didn\'t know, she\'s ignorant, she\'s not up to speed. I don\'t know how any of it jibes with the Smartest Woman in the World.

There\'s no question here that every effort is made to earn as much money off tobacco as possible. At the same time, the same people who are doing everything they can to get every penny out of this product, are condemning its use, are bludgeoning and impugning its users, and denying them every day more and more places where they can legally use the product. In the process, they have been the architects of the black market. The people in charge of all this have themselves set the stage for black market circumstances to prosper and thrive.

You do your job every day. When things go right, there\'s never any coverage. But when certain things happen, boy, the world descends on you and they plug you into a narrative that has been established that you\'re either a pig, you\'re a racist, you\'re a hater, and that\'s why you joined the cops and so forth. The good work you do - it\'s kind of like the CIA, every success nobody can ever know. You guys, not that your work is clandestine, but it\'s not news when you save a kid.

The state of New York\'s got this group of people called smokers, and they know they\'re addicted, and despite all the efforts to make \'em quit, they know they can\'t. So they just see a pile of money when they see these people. And they think because they\'re addicted, they can\'t not buy the product, so they just keep raising taxes and raising taxes, and they expect people just to come up with the money from somewhere and pay it.

Why can\'t the investment firm of I\'ve Got More Than You\'ll Ever Have and I\'m Laughing at You About It not build a highway or two if they think it might be a valuable investment? \"Well, because then they own it and they can restrict who uses it!\" And you think the government doesn\'t? (laughing) You talk about government owning and restricting people on things? The government restricts what you can say, they restrict what you can watch, they restrict now what you can eat, they restrict what your health care is gonna be, and you\'re worried about them restricting roads!

Liberals live in a cocoon, and the shelter of the cocoon is lie after lie as after lie after lie that gives them comfort. They are comfortable in these misrepresentations, distortions, and mistakes about their opponents. It\'s one of the ways in which they feel valid and relevant is to think that all the rest of us who disagree with them are contemptible and mean and all that, and we\'re not worth understanding or getting to know.

The left does not like self-reliance and individuality and the disparities in wealth and income that result. So the left has targeted capitalism forever on the pretext that it\'s unfair, that it\'s unequal, that it is mean-spirited, that it is white patriarchal Christianity - and all of these horrible, rotten things.

We are going to lead once again by being the best. We\'re gonna lead economically. We\'re gonna lead technologically. We\'re gonna go back to the Moon, we\'re gonna do whatever we\'re gonna do. We are going to lead by engaging in American exceptionalism and this is going to inspire others to come along with us. We\'re not shrinking away from anybody. We are reengaging. That\'s what Trump is, and that\'s what Democrats don\'t see.

I hear all of these liberals so concerned with people\'s health and so critical of tobacco cause it kills, it\'s deadly, and secondhand and third, and they\'ve created a bunch of insane people out there. I\'m telling you, liberalism has created literally deranged people afraid of everything. I mean it makes no sense to be afraid of secondhand smoke a hundred yards away from it. They have created this. They have created this inordinate fear of ordinary, everyday life.

Who do you think, as you gaze at the entire scene in Washington, who is it that\'s acting like a bunch of children? It isn\'t Trump. Who is it throwing the tantrums because they didn\'t get their way? Who is it acting like hysterical spoiled brats because their side lost the game? Who is it that\'s insisting, because they lost the game, that the rules be changed? Who is it that\'s acting like any average eight- to nine-year-old kid who\'s told he can\'t have any more Twinkies or whatever kids - marijuana; I don\'t know.

Democrats continue to make the mistake of plugging Trump into what they think their system is. And what they haven\'t figured out is, Donald Trump has taken over their system. I really think they don\'t have any idea what\'s headed their way.

I remember a prominent conservative media figure, talking to him about prominent liberal media figures that he knew, that he liked. And I questioned him. \"How can you trust these people? I mean, these are...\" \"No, no! They\'re good guys. In fact, one of them likes you, says you\'re not a hater.\" And I was supposed to be thrilled to hear this!I was supposed to be mollified that some liberal media figure had just pronounced I was okay because, after he had listened to me, he had determined I wasn\'t a hater. I did not take that as a compliment, and I got kind of mad.

The establishment is doing everything it can to overturn a duly elected presidency and president. And their allies, of course, are those in the media. Without the media, none of this would be possible.

The left has so corrupted everything it\'s touched. Even its highest ranking intellectual members are loony.

I thought you liberals cared about people, but here you\'re perfectly content to get them addicted to tobacco and make them pay taxes through the nose and continue to pay taxes through the nose and raise their taxes. And then you try to make \'em think you care about \'em by running PSAs telling them how they shouldn\'t smoke and how they should quit. You\'re exactly right. If they really cared, they would ban the product, but they can\'t, because the revenue from tobacco taxes - I\'m not kidding you - funds children\'s health care programs, and a number of other things as well.

Obama found a lot of people that think just like he does, and he put them in the intelligence community. Can you imagine? When you think of the intelligence community, don\'t you think of super patriots, don\'t you think of people out there even risking their lives to defend and protect the Constitution and the people of this country and this country itself as founded? No. That\'s not the kind of people Obama put at the CIA.

Gross negligence cannot possibly have intent because it cancels it out. If you\'re grossly negligent, intent\'s not a factor, you are or you aren\'t.

Trump believes we lead nations. Trump believes we set the example. Trump believes that American exceptionalism means just that, and anybody that wants to come along with us is more than welcome to. But they got to understand who we are. We\'re not gonna define ourselves by telling ourselves we\'re no good or we don\'t rate, we\'re gonna be more like you.

Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post. I think a lot of this is the PR value. Look at what we\'re doing here. We are talking about how Jeff Bezos cares about the poor. And for some people that\'s all you need.

We know from this book entitled... What is it? Surrendered? Succumbed? I can never remember the title perform. And we learn from this book that 24 hours after the election, the Hillary Clinton campaign decided to blame their defeat on the Russians colluding with Trump to affect the outcome of the election. And that allegation ends up being taken so seriously by so many supposedly rational people that now even so-called Republicans are talking about impeaching Donald Trump.