Rush Limbaugh, October 1, 2019, Speaking of Democrats: They resent the whole premise behind elections. Look, they don’t believe they should have to persuade anybody to agree with them. Therefore, they don’t believe in campaigns. They don’t believe in the free, open exchange of ideas. There aren’t any legitimate ideas outside of their own.
They don’t believe in giving legitimacy to anybody who is not already on their side. So if this is who they are psychologically — if they have no interest in persuading people, if they have no interest in acquiring power as a result of massive public support — then who are they? What are they? They want power simply to have it. They don’t want it to derive from the people.
They don’t want it to derive from persuading people that their ideas are the best — and where is all of that codified? All of that thinking, all of that behavior is codified in elections. What are elections about? Elections are about trying to persuade people to support you, to vote for you. Based on what? Well, it could be any number of things.
It could be you’re better looking than the other guy. You’re gonna give away more welfare than the other guy. You’re gonna beat our enemies better than anybody else. Whatever it is, elections are the result of persuading millions of people to support you. They resent having to do that. One reason is they’re a minority. They can’t persuade a majority of people.
They can’t persuade a majority of Americans to support Black Lives Matter. They can’t persuade a majority of Americans to support burning down American cities and private property. They can’t persuade a majority of Americans to go along with their ideas on guns and eliminating free speech. They can’t persuade anybody to agree with that!
Those are things they’re gonna have to force on people, and they are more than willing and eager to force that stuff on you, but they need the power to do it. So they have to go through the motions. The modern-day Democrats have to go through the motions of campaigning, and they have to go through the motions of trying to win the hearts and minds of voters.
But they resent the hell out of it. And in their world, it’s the one thing standing in their way: This need, this requirement to win elections. And I’m just telling you: As soon as they can figure out a way to eliminate elections, they will do it, ’cause they resent the hell out of it. This is… (interruption) Mr. Snerdley, the program observer, just said to me over the IFB.
He said, “I gotta admit something. When I first heard you say that the left and Democrats ultimately want to do away with elections, I thought you were going insane. I thought you were mad. I thought that all of this had finally gotten to you.” Well, that has to be some years ago now when I first advanced the theory. But now you say you can see it?
(interruption) “They’re doing it in front of our faces.” They really are. They are attempting to win elections without broad public support. That’s what they’re trying to do. That’s just another way of phrasing what they’re doing. How do you win elections without broad public support?
You have to cheat.
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This is the Biden the Illegitimate's best speech ever:
Unfortunately, I have to acknowledge Limbaugh did have it right. He did predict what has just happened.
ReplyDeleteI wish, though, he would make a distinction between rank and file Democrats, high ranking hacks and puppets, and the plutocrats behind it all, who play everyone of every affiliation, 99% of the time.
I too predicted what was going to happen, but for me the basis was Trump is in the 1% not entirely played by the elites. He may have been 90% what they liked, but they demand 100%. Trump held on to his 10% defiance and now he's paid the price, with interest.
I'm a registered Democrat. I couldn't say why. For a long time I registered as an Independent. The state changed the rules for party voting in state primaries and that's when I switched.
The choice was between Republican corruption and screwball crap (exemplified by Sarah Palin) and pathetic, passive Democrats, who in some small measure held out against the worst of what the Republicans cooked up. This made affiliation with them somewhat preferable
I don't know if it was widely publicized outside the state, but the Republicans in the legislature formed a club called the CBC, "Corrupt Bastards Club", with T-shirts, ball caps, and a voting coalition. I think Ted Stevens, our late senator, got himself assassinated by the CIA for his involvement extricating his son Ben, from the FBI's investigation of the CBC, of which Ben was the founder and head. Ben is currently the Chief of Staff of the sitting Republican administration.
The pathetic Ethan Berkowitz, who just resigned as mayor of Anchorage, was president of the senate at the time of the CBC. He's cooperated in the destruction of Anchorage during the pandemic, but I did admire the courage he showed pointing out the excesses and actual corruption of the Republicans when Ben Stevens was sitting in the state senate.
I certainly do not want to do away with elections. I wouldn't mind doing away with corrupt elections. To do so was pretty much hopeless before now, but now it will be impossible. Limbaugh must know what's really happening and his pointing to the dumb Democrats is merely a way of distracting his listeners from the real action.
"I'm a registered Democrat."
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" I wouldn't mind doing away with corrupt elections. To do so was pretty much hopeless before now, but now it will be impossible."
I dunno bout that. Trump has apparently decided to fight (see speech above, in which Trump uses grown-up language and quite long sentences.)
At least the ruckus he is apparently intent on making may do away with those proudly-supplied-by-Canada Dominion voting machines (LOL: we get to rule the dumb Yanks). But if it fails to do so, then that truly ends all credibility of the so-called "The Free World." Time will then be to call in Klaus[n] Schwab and Charles the Turd to rule the world.
Thanks for linking to Trump's speech. This is dangerous to the fraudsters, more dangerous than mass protests or nearly anything else. Trump is able to address the nation directly and bypass the mass media. (I wonder, though, how many heard this speech. I wouldn't have if not for you. I hadn't even heard about it, and I read the local papers nearly daily.)
ReplyDeleteI guess we're going to see what happens. The fraudsters are going to be forced into a drastic action here, it seems to me. Maybe they'll wait to see how this is received by the public.
Yes, there does seem to have been a change in tone from Trump, as though he has finally resolved to ignore the whimps in his own camp and push things to the limit. Maybe that's why Biden the Illegitimate, weighing the consequences of being exposed as a cheat, complimented Trump the other day on the acquisition of the Covid vaccine.
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