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<\/p>\nRUSH: We had a call last hour from somebody wanted to know, “What we can do? We know we\u2019ve got corruption all around us. We know we\u2019ve got people breaking the law in the FBI and the Department of Justice. We have people breaking the law in the Democrat Party. What can we do as individual citizens out here to stop it?” And as individual citizens? (sigh) I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
The best thing you can do is elect people who are gonna clean it up and fix it up. And I\u2019m telling you, it\u2019s exactly what Donald Trump is. Like I just saw, we revoked, what\u2019s-his-name, Brennan\u2019s clearance. So now there is an admiral in the Navy who was responsible for running the operation that ended up capturing and killing Osama Bin Laden. He\u2019s out saying, “Well, I mean, Mr. President, if you\u2019re gonna revoke Brennan\u2019s clearance, then you may as well revoke mine.”<\/p>\n
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Of course, the media is celebrating. His name is McRaven, Admiral McRaven. They\u2019re celebrating this guy, and I\u2019m sure a lot of people say, “Oh, my! This is not good. Oh, gosh, this is a great military guy siding with Brennan.” Folks, they\u2019re all from the swamp. It really isn\u2019t hard to understand, but you can\u2019t ever forget what is happening here. You can\u2019t. You who elected Trump and voted for him, you cannot forget what you\u2019ve done here.<\/p>\n
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You have sent a bomb that goes off in Washington every day, multiple times a day, in Donald Trump. He\u2019s blowin\u2019 the place up! And that\u2019s what you wanted. That\u2019s what you elected him for. He\u2019s pushing back against how many decades of entrenched club-ism? How long is the…? I think the Washington establishment and the globalist liberal order has been running this country since World War II. I think at the office put in place post-World War II. Maybe before then, but certainly after it, starting with but not limited to the Marshall Plan and the divvying up of Germany, East Germany to the Soviet Union. Malta with Churchill and FDR and so forth.<\/p>\n
The liberal order which still dominates the American pop culture and the American media, it\u2019s decades old, and it has had no opposition. These are the people that have — to one degree or another — been running the country. And they are embedded throughout the bureaucracy that is Washington, D.C. They\u2019re everywhere in there. And many of them are career people. And their loyalty is to that. Their loyalty is to that — even military people. You know, we\u2019ve discussed this. There are two kind of generals.<\/p>\n
You\u2019ve got warrior generals, and you\u2019ve got the political generals, and the warrior generals try to climb the ladder of success in the military with combat roles, combat success, beating the bad guys. The political side plays the political game; they climb the ladder that way. Who you know, who you have known, who you want to know, who you do know? Contacts. Brown-nosing. It\u2019s thick, and they have had no opposition. Yeah, you\u2019ve got the Republicans and Democrats, but the Republicans serve the role, I think…<\/p>\n
The Harlem Globetrotters always played the Washington Generals, and the Washington Generals maybe in some games would lead and get close to look like they were gonna win. But the Globetrotters ended up winning everything. I know the Republicans win the presidency now and then. But how much of conservative culture actually gets implemented via Republican Party victory in a lasting way? It hasn\u2019t and it doesn\u2019t. So the Republicans have their role to play inside this establishment. It\u2019s not, I don\u2019t even think, sufficient to call it the Washington establishment.<\/p>\n
Because they\u2019re not limited to Washington. These are the people who believe in globalism and who work with European and other foreign leaders to set up this world order that\u2019s basically a liberal order on things. They\u2019re not made up of people who believe that… (sigh) Well, it\u2019s tough. They believe in the bigness and the superpower status of the United States, and most of them don\u2019t want to diminish that, but they don\u2019t want to use it, either. Some of them do want to diminish it. But what matters to them is them.<\/p>\n
Like I made a point the other day that the purpose of life is life. Life\u2019s purpose is to exist. Life is gonna do whatever it has to to continue. Michael Crichton wrote about it great in one novel. It might have been Jurassic Park. I don\u2019t know what. But in the prelude to a book he described that even after a nuclear detonation that wiped out everything, some organism of life would survive and continue to survive and grow and propagate, that life is everywhere, and its purpose is to keep living. Its purpose is to multiply. Its purpose is to live.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s kind of a good way to describe this organization. That\u2019s what its purpose is. Its purpose is to live and to continue to exist and to dominate and to provide everything it provides for people who live and work in it. They\u2019ve had 60 years to establish their order. They\u2019ve had 60 years to entrench themselves and use their power to define the United States\u2019 role in the world, to define the United States government\u2019s role in domestic issues and so forth. And we\u2019ve elected somebody who is not part of that club or organization and never would be, and he has now campaigned on the idea that all of that needs to be blown up.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s described them as dumb and stupid with their trade deals. By the way, have you seen…? I watched earlier today some brain-dead Democrat woman analyst on Fox talking about how the Democrats need to win in 2020 to bring back a good economy for the little people, that what Trump has done is nothing but provide crumbs. I\u2019m saying, “This is absurd!” Everybody who\u2019s working is experiencing an economic boom, many of them for the first time in their lives! People that were born and grew up during the Obama administration have never known a growing, expanding economy like this.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s the first of it they\u2019ve of seen, and they were told it would never happen again. Barack Obama said their jobs are never coming back. Three percent economic growth? Lawrence Summers, an economics expert and the president of Harvard (until he ticked off some women) had said that it was irresponsible to promise a 3% economic growth rate, that it wasn\u2019t possible! Well, here we are at 4.1%. Donald Trump\u2019s embarrassing these people each and every day. He\u2019s illustrating and demonstrating they\u2019re a bunch of know-nothings!<\/p>\n
They\u2019re closed-minded! They have stopped being curious themselves like journalists have. So I\u2019m listening to this brain-dead female analyst saying the Democrats need to win to bring back something more than crumbs for average, ordinary Americans. Crumbs? Have you seen the numbers? Walmart is blowing the doors off! Consumer spending is at a record high! How in the hell is that happening? I guarantee you the 1% are not shopping at Walmart!<\/p>\n
Home Depot? Home Depot has been announcing record quarters! There\u2019s all kinds of new jobs — manufacturing and otherwise — being created. Wages are going up. That\u2019s why consumer spending is going up. There\u2019s a story in the Stack<\/a> here today that if you want to go out and buy a big truck, an over-the-road rig that you would use to ship things, you\u2019ve got a nine-month wait. The backorder for big rigs is so long that it\u2019s a nine-month wait<\/a>. You order one today, and you\u2019re not gonna get it \u2019til sometime next year. Why?<\/p>\n Because the business of shipping things is booming, and the reason for that is that the economy is! To listen to these Democrats talk about how people are being left out? They always do that in every economic boom and the reason is if the government cannot be said to be responsible for whatever improvements are happening in people\u2019s lives, then it\u2019s not real and it can\u2019t be allowed. People can\u2019t be allowed to credit capitalism or the markets or the economy itself for the improvement in their lives.<\/p>\n As far as these people in the club are concerned, Washington has to get that credit — and more specifically, the Democrat Party has to get that credit. The Democrat Party could not make happen what is happening today. They do not believe it is possible! They do not want what is happening today to happen! Because what\u2019s happening in the economy today creates people who become independent! And they find out that they could become much more prosperous and even much happier without depending on the nearest Democrat to hand something off to \u2019em!<\/p>\n That\u2019s why all of this is a threat to them, one of the many reasons why. It is patently dumb for somebody to go on TV and talk about the Democrats need to win in 2020 because all most people are getting is crumbs. This 4% economic growth? It can\u2019t happen if just the 1% are doing well. Despite what you think, there aren\u2019t that many of them! (interruption) Yeah, somebody tried to talk sense into her, but she was incapable. This dumb, brain-dead babe was incapable of understanding and accepting that there is a roaring economy — and the evidence, you can cite it with quarterly earnings reports from one company to the next.<\/p>\n So Trump is thinking of suggesting or proposing the SEC change the reporting requirements to six months, not three, twice a year rather than four times. I\u2019ll tell you, it would free those people up in corporate boardrooms to have even more focus on the actual growth of their companies and not just the stock price. Not that that\u2019s not important. But, you know, having to report every three months, meet expectations, that\u2019s how you get policies that do not have enough time to take hold.<\/p>\n You\u2019ve gotta show results in three months as a CEO or you could be in big trouble with the board of directors, be on your way out. It would be worthwhile thing to change. Just a little thing like that is throwing the country upside-down. “What do you mean you want to change the reporting requirements to twice a year? Who do you think you are?” They\u2019re so etched in stone in their ways. It\u2019s been done for so long. But my point is, this is what people that voted for Donald Trump voted for.<\/p>\n You voted for a guy like Brennan losing his security clearance, because he\u2019s been trying to overthrow Donald Trump and lead the effort to do that. He\u2019s being paid money to do it by using whatever information he supposedly has as a result of having a security clearance — and then out there lying about what he has, and he can\u2019t prove it! While shouting slanderous invective that Trump\u2019s the traitor. So an admiral comes along, “If you\u2019re gonna take his clearance away, take mine away,” and you\u2019re supposed to start getting wobbly.<\/p>\n “Oh, no! An admiral? Trump must be wrong about this.”<\/p>\n No.<\/p>\n The swamp is gonna stick together. The swamp is going to hang in with itself. The one thing that hasn\u2019t changed about the swamp is there\u2019s nobody there — despite what I just listed as the economic improvement, despite trade deals being redone in the United States\u2019 favor. Besides a focus on securing the border and limiting illegal immigration. All the things that Trump is being beat up every day for, inside the Washington Beltway, in the establishment, whatever you want to call it, and he still doesn\u2019t have any new friends in there.<\/p>\n They\u2019re still as arrayed and aligned against him as they were the day he won the election, even before. He has an ongoing, pressure-packed existence. He is pushing back against a 60-or-more-year order and establishment that has never been pushed back against like this before. They are willing to do whatever it takes to get rid of him, to paralyze him, to defeat him, to convict hum, to impeach him, or what have you. And he\u2019s continuing to push back, and he\u2019s continuing to get in their face. I don\u2019t think he gets enough gratitude for hanging in.<\/p>\n I know the people that voted for him have mountains and mountains and mountains of appreciation. What has a doing is exactly what millions and millions and millions of people have been demanding of Republicans, essentially, and conservatives for as long as I\u2019ve been doing this program — and it\u2019s been that long that somebody\u2019s come along and is doing it. It\u2019s only natural they would hate him. It\u2019s only natural that they would align unanimously against him.<\/p>\n It\u2019s only natural they would want to get rid of him. It\u2019s only natural that they would try to create as much doubt in your mind as they can. It\u2019s only natural that they would try to make you think you made the biggest mistake of your life with your vote in 2016. But it\u2019s gonna take more than one administration to continue this, to accomplish this. It\u2019s gonna take another election in 2020 before it\u2019s done. It\u2019s a formidable challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: There are two kind of generals. You've got warrior generals, and you've got the political generals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":282454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/TrumpHardHatThumbsUp-e1532703178307.jpg\")
I tell you, Trump has proposed something else. This would make such a big change. You know, right now the SEC requires businesses and corporations — major corporations — to report their earnings every quarter, four times a year. That reporting requirement creates the need for policy in the corporate boardroom for growth or loss or what have you, for the purposes of the stock price and investors (and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah) every three months. The need to either meet expectations or surpass them or to not get too down below them has way too much effect on the way companies are run.<\/p>\n