RIP Rush Limbaugh

I remember from when I was pretty young my mom used to play him in the car often so that we could laugh at him & dunk on him. I have fond memories of being able to crack her up as a little kid with my impression of him, loudly announcing that this dinner or w/e was entering HOUR 2 OF BROADCASSST EXCELLENCCCCCCE.

God, if Trump gets decisively beaten in November, preferably by Bernie or Warren, I may have to take off work for an entire week on account of being drunk 24/7/7.

unfortunately there's something already hypothetically scheduled for the hypothetical week after trump loses in an election: the accusations that the election was rigged, the launch of investigations in the senate, and a bunch of rural white people walking around with guns in cities

good reason to be drunk imo

I remember when Rush was briefly deaf, at the time I thought it was hilarious how he would occasionally modulate his voice extremely high or low without apparently realizing it - dont feel great about laughing at someones deafness in hindsight, but at the time I thought it was sweet poetic justice that after all those years of recklessly running his mouth, he had finally literally lost control of his voice.

I feel awful about it but I really kinda do want him to die suffering in agonizing pain, and to have all of his nurses be queer POC.

why would you inflict that on those poor nurses

in a perfect world, his nurses would be tree stumps

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don't feel awful about that. he's not only THOUGHT much worse things about everyone that isn't a white conservative christian, but he has had more influence than just about anyone in the country over the last 40 years in transforming his hatred into the GOP platform

and got awarded with a fucking medal of freedom for his efforts. he can't die soon enough

xxxp fair, replace "queer POC" with "the people from HOSTEL."

he doesn't have the medal yet

Rush's consciousness needs to be uploaded into the cloud a la San Junipero and be whisked to a VR environment where he does nothing but witness gay weddings for eternity.

Maybe he'll actually gain a heart during the exercise.

he doesn't have the medal yet

didn't Melania place it around his neck during the SOTU? or was that a fake placeholder medal until he gets the real one?

that was the foil-wrapped chocolate medal

oh did that happen? I didn't bother with the SOTU

sorry my bad

yeah, i didn't bother either (first SOTU i've missed since bush's first term?, i think?), but i saw the clip. he's sitting up there with melania, and then trump announced that he's an american hero of freedom and then melania reached into her bag of blood diamonds and pulled out the foil-wrapped chocolate medal placeholder and slipped it around limbaugh's neck. limbaugh's face went bright red and his mouth hung open in that dumb way that midwestern dads do when someone is filming them open up a present. then he gave a big thumbs up to the president and all of the republicans who were so proud of their racist enabler getting honored

Great thing about those dancing Rush?trump gifs is whatever music you're listening to synchronizes with the movements. I'm cracking myself up.

Rush is one of the biggest pieces of shit in American public life and basically opened the door to being a professional asshole as a viable career option. I can't say that Fox News wouldn't exist without his popularity (which was massive between the time he really took off to the demise of his football broadcasting career), but he showed how lucrative it could be and how willing people were for the kind of message- and as importantly - the tone- that he had to offer.The damage he has done to the psyche of this country is irreparable in my opinion. Cancer is the absolute worst, and it fucking sucks, but so does Rush.

Life is hard
And so am I
Better give Rush something
So he dies

mega dittos lung cancer

rush looks like he's dancing at the club, trump looks like he's caught in a hail of tommy gun fire

― omar little, Wednesday, February 5, 2020

real lol

I feel awful about it but I really kinda do want him to die suffering in agonizing pain, and to have all of his nurses be queer POC.

― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.)

did you read Angels in America recently

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says his lung cancer is terminal https://t.co/408q1lu4Il

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 20, 2020

What happened to Glenn Beck going blind? Did that ever happen?

I totally forgot about that, but now I'm thinking about that one week period where Glenn Beck was photographed wearing a hipster scarf and everyone was like, "oh he's #resistance now!".

Glenn Beck was the one constantly crying at his blackboard right?

couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. fuck you rush limbaugh

i hope they shove his presidential medal of freedom down his throat before they close the coffin, and his body deserves to be dug back up a few decades right now and prodded with needles for no particular reason

at least, that's how i feel about it

tough but fair

in ZERO way does he deserve that photo to be the WashPost image for the story. sure, show the fucking racist, vigilant white supremacist, giving a thumbs up and getting a medal. no, fuck that. show him as a sweaty, angry man provoking violent white resentment into his microphone for forty fucking years, what a piece of shit

"sO MuCh fOr tHe tOlErAnT LeFt"

Karl Malone otm

"2003, ESPN removed Limbaugh as a football commentator after he said Donovan McNabb, an African American quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, got more credit than warranted because “the media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback can do well."

ESPN paid rush limbaugh to talk about football? in the 2000s?! wtf

was very short lived and he was very bad at it

you know, we really need a voice to draw in that sexist, white supremacist crowd...where is the vitriolic anger toward anyone who isn't a white christian during ESPN football broadcasts? get my man rush limbaugh on the phone

During summers in college, I worked for a county highway department and a big portion of my job was spent sitting in a truck, either driving ahead of a patching crew to alert oncoming cars or sitting at the mile spaced intersections out in the wide open country to redirect the rare vehicle. Spent a lot of time reading and listening to the radio, but the worst week was when we were situated in one of the only "groves" in Central Illinois and the only station I could pick up was the talk radio station with his show. It was awful and I had trouble deciding whether the stifling summer silence or Limbaugh's frothing rage was more torturous.

"2003, ESPN removed Limbaugh as a football commentator after he said Donovan McNabb, an African American quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, got more credit than warranted because “the media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback can do well."

ESPN paid rush limbaugh to talk about football? in the 2000s?! wtf

― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, October 20, 2020 12:02 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they were floundering around for a while. I think they felt like they needed to try to recreate some kind of Howard Cosell phenomenon...which really could never be recreated. So they tried outsized personalities, like Rush for a minute and Dennis Miller...both crashed and burned.

sadly not literally

my dad was p much already a proto-chud from the minute Reagan kicked off his campaign in Neshoba Co Mississippi talking about “”states’ rights””, but I hold Limbaugh responsible for pushing him right over the edge.

I really wish Hell was real

i hold limbaugh responsible for my dad. he went to college in limbaugh's hometown, and was in on limbaugh from the early days of his radio hatred. limbaugh was someone who could belittle women and other races while combining it with christian righteousness - the perfect prescription for my dad

just going to keep using the past tense with rush - he's already dead to me

So glad I've never had to listen to this guy's show, ever, in any context.

I would like to say I would never hear his voice again (maybe I won't!) but my father in law always likes us to take him to an antique market near his house when we visit and half the stalls have radios tuned to this moron. I have a feeling that after he dies these stations will still replay him forever.

he donated a lot of money to local churches around missouri and illinois, too - that's part of why he has so many defenders, i'd suppose. he knows his target audience

he likes to donate money to the churches which still think the "american slavery was endorsed by the bible" viewpoint is part of the discussion

this will be the second biggest Rush death of 2020

But only one of those will have been truly upsetting

Lung cancer varies but average 5-year survival rate for Stage 4 is 2%. Reading between the lines, he was diagnosed in Feb, probably underwent some initial chemo/radiation type treatment (which doesn't really do much for lung cancer) and then was prescribed a cancer drug that worked somewhat by reducing the cancer or at least maintained the status quo. The thing is, unfortunately ime, these drugs only work for a certain period of time and then stop being effective for a patient, so the doctor noticed the drug had stopped working on his six-week/ninety-day checkup and has now prescribed another drug that may or may not work as well as the first one. I am making some assumptions, but the fact that he was diagnosed in Feb and the drug is already not working in Oct is not a good sign. This could go two ways: the new drug is effective and maybe he gets another year or two, tops, or the drug doesn't work and he is dead in the next six months.

Regardless, it is pretty clear to me that Limbaugh isn't going to see election day 2024 and there is a decent chance he doesn't see the midterms in 2022.

Also, fuck Rush Limbaugh.