RIP Rush Limbaugh

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.

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.

An American Tale

i wish he were already dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30Cm92dlZ4&t=310s

Are we there, yet?

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.

R-ing in P being way too good for him

more like rot in a pit!!!!

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.

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.

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

1860.

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) November 6, 2020

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?")

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.

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.

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"

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.

did especially Trumpy candidates do better or worse this election?

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.

Influence of Talk radio a striking common denominator there re rwanda

Help me Rwanda

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."

Don't think they killed ppl while trying to stop votes being certified---?

Oh well we'll prob get a maskless musical someday, Trump!, to explain it all.

the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of liberty

ok this time for reals

woop

rest in hell you bitch

fuck yes

make today a national holiday

Say hi to the devil for me, Rush!

world is a better place without that piece of shit, would've been better still if he'd never existed

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I remember listening to both him and Larry King on the radio in the late '80s/early '90s. End of an era!

wooo i hope it was terrifying and painful

link?

Good riddance, you bloated sack of shit.

good.

yay

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/rush-limbaugh-self-proclaimed-doctor-of-democracy-dies-at-age-70.html

Good riddance to someone who actively made the world worse.

god wanted his talent back apparently

good. rest in poopies.

binging my L.A. Style tracks

later day you piece of shit

LOL president keyes

wow only 70, i thought he was at least 120

It’s nice to get some good news this week.