just going to keep using the past tense with rush - he's already dead to me
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
So glad I've never had to listen to this guy's show, ever, in any context.
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link
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.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:38 (three years ago) link
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
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
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
― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:46 (three years ago) link
this will be the second biggest Rush death of 2020
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
But only one of those will have been truly upsetting
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:57 (three years ago) link
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.
― Quiet Storm Thorgerson (PBKR), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 17:58 (three years ago) link
hopefully he dies after Trump leaves office so there's no state funeral
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
Trump's advisors currently exploring whether you can pardon someone from cancer
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
aw I was hoping I would get to revive the thread with this news, that's what I get for actually working
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 19:35 (three years ago) link
I know Twitter will go out of its way to ban people who say shit about him but a large part of me thinks it's vitally important he understands how many people are actively looking forward to the day he dies and that that will be a significant part of his legacy.
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Tuesday, 20 October 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
It is extremely difficult over a lifetime to do so much evil and so little good that one completely forfeits the human privilege of sympathy over the news of one's diagnosis of a terminal illness. But Rush was up to the challenge.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 03:05 (three years ago) link
An American Tale
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 21 October 2020 03:19 (three years ago) link
i wish he were already dead
― Walter Draggedman (stevie), Wednesday, 21 October 2020 07:41 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30Cm92dlZ4&t=310s
Are we there, yet?
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:29 (three years ago) link
The number of “Rush Limbaugh radicalized my dad and ruined our family” stories being told in various places right now is truly terrifying. I hope this is a safe space to fervently wish him a long, excruciating death wherein he hears nothing except how roundly he is hated and what a blight he was on the American cultural landscape, and that maybe, just maybe, he has a come-to-Jesus moment about it, and spends his final days in an agony of guilt, shame and despair from which there is no reprieve.
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:40 (three years ago) link
R-ing in P being way too good for him
― The little engine that choogled (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:41 (three years ago) link
more like rot in a pit!!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
rot in a pit rush limbaugh
Man, it's depressing that so many dads are so easily pushed over that edge tbh, but I guess it just shows how a popular figure can give people permission to stop checking their worst impulses.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link
As a person, a real piece of shit, and I don't find it easy to speak ill of a dying person.
As a phenomenon, important to understand. I had a job where once a week I had to be in an office where someone was always playing limbaugh, and one thing that caught me about him was that he was fairly funny at times. I think you could even say that the alt right owes him a lot stylistically -- he's a pre-internet troll.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:45 (three years ago) link
otm yeah hes definitely a pioneer of the joking-but-not-really-but-sort-of-joking hall of mirrors tone that a lot of maga twitter and the alt right thrives on nowadays
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 22 October 2020 14:04 (three years ago) link
1860.— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) November 6, 2020
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:08 (three years ago) link
oops. i meant to link to a short thread (5 tweets or so) which handily breaks down what rush is telling his idiots right now:
I've been listening to a lot of right-wing talk radio yesterday and today. All take it as a given that Democrats have stolen the election, and, with the feckless Republican establishment having stood down, successfully.... 1/— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) November 6, 2020
(Perlstein's "1860." was in response to this question: "Do you know of any time when the lunatic fringe (a) was this bonkers, and (b) captured as large a share of the population?")
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:09 (three years ago) link
Karl, yes, that is exactly what I am hearing in the dextrosphere as well: Trump won, Dems stole it, RINO squish establishment GOPers (and Fox) let it happen. War.
― coup de nancy grace (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:15 (three years ago) link
i have been blissfully tuned out for the past few days, so i wasn't sure how widespread it was beyond the core rightwing talk radio audience.
― @oneposter(✔️) (Karl Malone), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:17 (three years ago) link
I said this on the other thread, but I don't buy Perlstein's theory that this helps Ossoff in the runoff. Perdue was "trump's man in Georgia"
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:20 (three years ago) link
sorry that wasn't really his theory, just that this should be "cheering for Democrats" which I guess someone else interpreted to mean good for Ossoff. Perlstein doesn't say that.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 6 November 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
did especially Trumpy candidates do better or worse this election?
― lukas, Friday, 6 November 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
In re: "1860" and "war." Under the present condition of US politics, such rhetoric could only deliver something more resembling Rwanda than a replay of the Confederate States vs. The Union. I don't think it's come to that, yet.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Friday, 6 November 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
Influence of Talk radio a striking common denominator there re rwanda
― J.G Ballard otm (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 7 November 2020 12:09 (three years ago) link
Help me Rwanda
― coup de nancy grace (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 7 November 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
Can't happen soon enough. This was after the US Capitol coup attempt:
"There's a lot of people calling for the end of violence," Limbaugh said. "There's a lot of conservatives, social media, who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable. Regardless of the circumstances. I'm glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual tea party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn't feel that way."
― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Sunday, 10 January 2021 20:10 (three years ago) link
Don't think they killed ppl while trying to stop votes being certified---?
― dow, Sunday, 10 January 2021 20:21 (three years ago) link
Oh well we'll prob get a maskless musical someday, Trump!, to explain it all.
― dow, Sunday, 10 January 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of liberty
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 11 January 2021 02:30 (three years ago) link
ok this time for reals
― underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
woop
― nxd, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
rest in hell you bitch
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
fuck yes
― Hello Nice FBI Lady (DJP), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
make today a national holiday
Say hi to the devil for me, Rush!
― The Mandolinrainian (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
world is a better place without that piece of shit, would've been better still if he'd never existed
― Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/knAAAOSwhXxeTf5y/s-l300.jpg
― avatar of a kind of respectability homosexual culture (Eric H.), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
https://giphy.com/gifs/animation-ilx-jiggly-panda-4iV6quWypxgcg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:19 (three years ago) link
I remember listening to both him and Larry King on the radio in the late '80s/early '90s. End of an era!
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:21 (three years ago) link
wooo i hope it was terrifying and painful
― adam, Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
link?
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 17 February 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link