He was a shit stain - terribly annoying while you have one and not missed at all once it fucking rots away with cancer.
Honestly I hadn’t thought of him until this post about that tweet.
Talk about a living.
For a long time, I hated him. Then for a brief moment, I thought he was hilarious because I figured it had to be satire with how over the top it was. Then went right back to hating him when I found out it wasn’t satire at all.
I still don’t really understand his guest roles on family guy. He had to have known he was the joke, but still did it anyway.
Easy: he didn’t actually believe in anything other than the next paycheque.
All I remember is that piece of shit Rush Limbaugh is buried at Bellefontaine Cemetery Saint Louis, St. Louis City, Missouri, USA.
Very useful information to know.
But why would you want to remember he even existed?
It’s good to know where you have a bathroom.
This misunderstands the motivations of real-life evil people.
Once you accept there is no afterlife, that your legacy means nothing, and that you’re a piece of shit who has no desire to contribute to society or help others - only your personal success and self-pleasure while living matter.
Tarquin says it best, though much more humorously, here: https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0763.html
By Rush’s personal measure, he absolutely won. So did Kissinger. So did Reagan. Trump and Jones and Rogan are on track.
You don’t beat such people with legacy.
Here’s the comic. Thanks, it was a good read.
Tarquin ! What a beautiful reference. Sadly still as pertinent as ever.
I don’t think that most of the people we might consider evil have that level of self-awareness. Certainly those with a pathological lack of empathy are overrepresented in the highest echelons of power. It doesn’t logically follow that they see themselves as bad.
You can either make somthing for younger generations. Or burn what’s been built for your own pleasure.
Boomers made thier choice
Thats mostly because he lost his popularity when Internet poscasts started taking over, now we have a new generation of asshole podcasters like Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh
And I wouldn’t know who they are but for the memes ridiculing them. LOL
I’d say his replacement is Alex Jones, and his replacement is Joe Rogan. It’s just a series of ignorant men with microphones and an even more ignorant audience.
So many have taken his place now.
Yeah the problem is new hate mongers keep getting born
Limbaugh’s dead? I guess it’s been years since I thought of him last.
He died of lung cancer from all the cigar smoking after decades to claiming that smoking doesn’t cause cancer.
I wouldn’t wish for anyone’s death, but I can certainly celebrate it after the fact.
He’s also the reason no conservatives believe in climate change. He started the meme that it’s a socialist conspiracy to extract money out of the US. So not only did he not contribute anything worthwhile, he actively worked to make money at the whole world’s expense.
That’s okay, after filling out a USPS online change of address form I’m now wishing for the death of DeJoy, I can add a random conservative pundit to the list no problem to make up for your lax hate game.
Ugh, I did not need my favourite web comic being associated with Limbaugh.
One frustrating thing about Limbaugh (and Jones and Hannity, et al) is that they made Being Angry a Right Wing Thing.
Extremely frustrating when you see a genocide in Gaza or global temperatures spiking or some cop shoot up a subway over a $3 fare, express anger, and have someone respond “You just sound like Rush Limbaugh”.
There are real reasons to feel righteous anger and to use that as motivation to act. But guys like Rush just fill the airways with this white nationalist noise. They make the idea of being angry this exclusive Right Wing attitude to have.
The First Labor of Heracles is reeling right now
The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won’t accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.
Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it’s good for reactionaries. They want you either impotently angry so you can’t think clearly to make those long term, organized plans; or they want you mad enough to go do a little stochastic terrorism.
Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that’s motivational and doesn’t slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can’t turn into immediate results.
The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won’t accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.
I disagree. People who aren’t agitated make for poor partners. They’re unreliable, uncommitted, and easily wooed by empty platitudes from the folks committing the offenses.
Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it’s good for reactionaries.
Generic always-on anger burns you out and turns you into a cynic. It’s the cynicism that reactionaries feed on. But when you have a baseline moral position and you can recognize what does and does not rise to the level of offense, you can leverage outrage productively rather than feel sour and hateful all the time.
Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that’s motivational and doesn’t slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can’t turn into immediate results.
Progressives (in the US) have a hard time mobilizing large groups toward productive action because they lack the resources and the institutional structure to mobilize individual activists into a collective workforce. When progressives get access to these kinds of resources, they generate enormous social value in a relatively short amount of time. The despair we routinely see in progressive communities stems from groups that are fractured - often deliberately so - and undermined by state and corporate institutions.
We need to get better at allowing righteous anger
We need to get better at doing things about it instead of farting rage into the Internet.
Also true. Farting rage is easier so its all people do
A decade ago - all the rage bait YouTubers.
Today:
LibsOfTiktok
Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now
Probably a bunch more names.
Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now
Apparently she got dumped by the campaign team.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/laura-loomer-anti-republican-posts-donald-trump-travel/
From the WaPo article (where the daily dot got its info)
He also promised advisers he would not regularly invite her to travel with him on his plane
Emphasis mine. He didn’t dump her, he just said he wouldn’t invite her regularly.
Ahh. So not really dumping just not flying her everywhere. Got it.
Nah, I heard that she ran out of tictacs, and had the nerve to ask Trump to start washing occasionally, instead of popping a mint before going down.
🤢 What an awful day to have a too vivid imagination
That’s not the point of the tictac blowie but now I hope they make a menthol version
I was about to correct you and say that YouTube didn’t even exist a decade ago, and now I feel old instead
You’re off by a lot! Youtube is almost 20
That is cool!
YouTube had already gone through several eras a decade ago.
Saying that makes me want to yell at a cloud.
My brother was into him back in the day (he still has shit taste) and another sibling and I found a clip of him telling fox news he makes things up and does it all for the money. Brother didn’t care and just kept listening to the guy
I hadn’t thought of him since the last time somebody trashed him. That is his legacy. He is like Joseph McCarthy in the 50’s. Just another example of what not to be.
