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Rush Limbaugh dead at 70
Started By Rue Bella, Feb 17 2021 12:15 PM
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 12:15 PM
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 12:40 PM
Happy Day for Beez!
I'm glad we didn't put this in the RIP thread. No rest or peace for this cretin.
I'm glad we didn't put this in the RIP thread. No rest or peace for this cretin.
"All glory to the HypnoTrump, or else..."
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 01:04 PM
My instantaneous reaction to the headline was “Rot In Hell, You Sick F***.” Chem PhD’s was “Rest in Peace...M*****F*****.”
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The trouble is that editors and their journalists are simply employees of large profit-seeking corporations whose executives have no idea of what "truth" is; only "ratings" or "clicks" or share price. ~Rich T Bikkies, 10/1/2020
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(About fame) Living for likes, shares and follows is a form of validation. The question is whether it is also the source of our self esteem. If it is, we’re screwed. And, culturally, it seems as if it’s become more and more our shared value. ... Meringue is no longer a sweet and pretty topping but the body itself. ~Charles Perez
The trouble is that editors and their journalists are simply employees of large profit-seeking corporations whose executives have no idea of what "truth" is; only "ratings" or "clicks" or share price. ~Rich T Bikkies, 10/1/2020
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384, via LFC, 12/1/2016
Competent people go in one of a few directions. But incompetence is infinite. ~David Brooks, NY Times
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 01:14 PM
I hope Rush has a very large, indoor, super-spreader funeral, with many conservatives in attendance.
Collateral damage to innocents? Sure, but that's how the GOP likes it.
Collateral damage to innocents? Sure, but that's how the GOP likes it.
What is wrong with these people? ~ PG
We go low so you don't have to. ~ LP
Person.. woman.. man.. election... vote. ~ Twitter
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 01:20 PM
Rue Bella, on 17 February 2021 - 01:14 PM, said:
I hope Rush has a very large, indoor, super-spreader funeral, with many conservatives in attendance.
Collateral damage to innocents? Sure, but that's how the GOP likes it.
Collateral damage to innocents? Sure, but that's how the GOP likes it.
"All glory to the HypnoTrump, or else..."
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 01:20 PM
Yet more schadenfreude that he was taken by a disease caused by smoking after he mocked the dangers of smoking.
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"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 03:46 PM
"All glory to the HypnoTrump, or else..."
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 09:59 PM
Misattributed to Twain, but is apt: "I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." Good riddance to bad rubbish. This sorry excuse for a man is largely a part of how we got into the mess we are in of hyperpartisan politics with his spread of disinformation and faux outrage. Say hi to Roger Ailes in that toasty place you have gone to.
“Trump’s a stupid man’s idea of a smart person, a poor man’s idea of a rich person & a weak man’s idea of a strong man.”
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
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Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
— Fran Lebowitz
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
— Carl Sagan
Pray for Trump: Psalm 109:8
"Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers arc in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
— Carl Sagan
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
1995
“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
— H.L. Mencken
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Second inaugural address January, 1937
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 10:03 PM
For goldenvalley: my hometown's contribution to the national culture. 
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Posted 17 February 2021 - 10:18 PM
AnBr, on 17 February 2021 - 09:59 PM, said:
Misattributed to Twain, but is apt: "I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." Good riddance to bad rubbish. This sorry excuse for a man is largely a part of how we got into the mess we are in of hyperpartisan politics with his spread of disinformation and faux outrage. Say hi to Roger Ailes in that toasty place you have gone to.
I’ll adapt something reportedly said by Bette Davis: “I was taught only to speak good of the dead . He’s dead. Good.”
Politics these days is show business. Elections are Dancing with the Stars with consequences. ~Rue Bella
(About fame) Living for likes, shares and follows is a form of validation. The question is whether it is also the source of our self esteem. If it is, we’re screwed. And, culturally, it seems as if it’s become more and more our shared value. ... Meringue is no longer a sweet and pretty topping but the body itself. ~Charles Perez
The trouble is that editors and their journalists are simply employees of large profit-seeking corporations whose executives have no idea of what "truth" is; only "ratings" or "clicks" or share price. ~Rich T Bikkies, 10/1/2020
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384, via LFC, 12/1/2016
Competent people go in one of a few directions. But incompetence is infinite. ~David Brooks, NY Times
(About fame) Living for likes, shares and follows is a form of validation. The question is whether it is also the source of our self esteem. If it is, we’re screwed. And, culturally, it seems as if it’s become more and more our shared value. ... Meringue is no longer a sweet and pretty topping but the body itself. ~Charles Perez
The trouble is that editors and their journalists are simply employees of large profit-seeking corporations whose executives have no idea of what "truth" is; only "ratings" or "clicks" or share price. ~Rich T Bikkies, 10/1/2020
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384, via LFC, 12/1/2016
Competent people go in one of a few directions. But incompetence is infinite. ~David Brooks, NY Times
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Posted 18 February 2021 - 11:05 AM
baw1064, on 17 February 2021 - 10:03 PM, said:
For goldenvalley: my hometown's contribution to the national culture.
Yeah I remember those days. He was a shock jock back then, sort of funny because of the exaggerated way he described things. But like Trump, he found that a group of people really agreed with him, took every word of his as gospel. The deconstruction of the guardrails against mass ownership of radio and tv stations in the '90's enabled him to reach even more people.
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Posted 18 February 2021 - 12:12 PM
From Connor Freidersdorf at the Atlantic:
There's a lot more in this but it's mostly about how Limbaugh wasn't really a conservative. We all knew that.
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Limbaugh isn’t solely or mostly responsible for conservatism’s decline, but he is partly responsible. He spent several decades running interference for whoever was leading the Republican Party, only to complain later that those same Republicans were corrupt swamp creatures. Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, and Trump differed greatly in their worldviews and policy agendas, but Limbaugh, always more a partisan warrior than an intellectual leader with independent convictions, aligned with each just at the height of his or her power in the GOP, even in years when fiscal profligacy under Republican leadership meant ballooning budget deficits and debt. Nor is fiscal conservatism the only core belief Limbaugh jettisoned.
There's a lot more in this but it's mostly about how Limbaugh wasn't really a conservative. We all knew that.
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Posted 18 February 2021 - 12:19 PM
golden_valley, on 18 February 2021 - 12:12 PM, said:
There's a lot more in this but it's mostly about how Limbaugh wasn't really a conservative. We all knew that.
He was (I really enjoyed just typing "was") a self-centered, egomaniacal, right-wing grifter with no morals, no principles, who loved beating up on people and love the sound of his own voice. Sounds like he completely help blaze the trail for Trump.
" 'Individual conscience' means that women only get contraceptives if their employers, their physicians, their pharmacists, their husbands and/or fathers, pastors, and possibly their mayors, Governors, State Secretaries of Health, Congressmen, Senators, and President all agree that in that particular case they're justifiable." --D.C. Sessions
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
"That's the problem with being implacable foes - no one has any incentive to treat you as anything more than an obstacle to be overcome."
"The 'Road to Serfdom' is really all right turns." --Progressive Whisperer
""The GOP ... where every accusation is also a confession." --Progressive Whisperer
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Posted 18 February 2021 - 01:07 PM
LFC, on 18 February 2021 - 12:19 PM, said:
He was (I really enjoyed just typing "was") a self-centered, egomaniacal, right-wing grifter with no morals, no principles, who loved beating up on people and love the sound of his own voice. Sounds like he completely help blaze the trail for Trump.
But do remember, maximizing personal wealth and power at the expense of others IS a principle. It's just not a very socially positive one.
"All glory to the HypnoTrump, or else..."
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
"It all makes sense when you remind yourself that the GOP is no longer a political party but turned into an organized crime family"
"I hope to live long enough that the name Trump is reviled as much as the name Hitler or Stalin"
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Posted 01 March 2021 - 02:07 PM
I just listened to an interview of a former ditto-head who started listening to Limbaugh while in high school in the '90's. He continued to listen and added Fox News, Drudge Report, and Ingraham to his political diet. Finally in 2012 he decided to drop all political news from his daily routine because he found himself overwhelmed with predictions of horrible socialist consequences if Obama was re-elected. He is now a registered Democrat though he's still a balanced budget guy and cut deficit guy. Why? Because he saw that the country did not become a socialist hell hole; that some things were going pretty well. And he realized that his desired balanced budget came from the Clinton Administration and slashing of deficit created by Bush era tax cutting came from Obama Administration.
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