BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70 https://t.co/ZDNNQR9Iul
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 17, 2021
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BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70 https://t.co/ZDNNQR9Iul
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 17, 2021
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zzyzx
Let’s take a moment to mourn Rush Limbaugh’s death…
…mainly that it didn’t come at the hand of any of the horrible policies that he helped create. So many ways he could have had an ironic death. The 2021 writers are failing us.
Poe Larity
I’d just like to mention that I’ve got nothing to say.
PsiFighter37
Is 12:30pm on a Wednesday too early to drink champagne?
VeniceRiley
So glad we had a change of government so we won’t have him lying in state or anything like that.
Fraud Guy
Further affiant sayeth naught.
hitchhiker
Well, that’s one of the obituaries I’ve been looking forward to reading.
guachi
He’s been a cancer on the body politic so long I’m surprised he was only 70 when he died.
The Moar You Know
@PsiFighter37: 930 am on the Pacific Coast and the answer is no. It’s not too early.
Geo Wilcox
And there was much rejoicing… sorry but it is true. This creature poisoned the minds of millions of people and I for one am very glad he is dead. If that makes me a bad person, so be it. I will wear that badge with honor.
Dorothy A. Winsor
The world is a better place
Chat Noir
@PsiFighter37: It’s never to early to drink champagne, especially if you add some pomegranate juice to it.
NotMax
“Any man’s death diminishes me.”
So does removing a wart.
trollhattan
I’ll give this to Biden: he’s good.
Spanky
So he’s taking another sick day, then? Slacker.
Elizabelle
LOL. On the same day they’re imploding trump’s Atlantic City casino.
Laughing.
And looked up how to spell Hallelujah.
TaMara (HFG)
…
trollhattan
@The Moar You Know:
This is why God invented the bottomless mimosa.
LurkerNoLonger
I think it was Bill Maher who said, after Jerry Fallwell died, that sometimes death isn’t sad. That’s how I feel.
Comrade Colette
Entirely fuck that guy. He stole my brother – poured poison into his ears for decades, calling it “entertainment,” dehumanizing liberals and women and POC and basically anyone who wasn’t a white asshole like himself. I can’t drink champagne during this Zoom meeting but I sure as hell will later.
Fuck him.
SalterWobchak
He was a cancer on the country, and it is somehow fitting that he died from it.
Elizabelle
@PsiFighter37: Hardly! I am popping a bottle of cava in the fridge for tonight, as we speak. (Would join you in imbibing now, but have some errands and a long walk to accomplish.)
Soprano2
Things seem a little bit lighter, don’t they? I don’t mourn that asshole, he certainly wouldn’t mourn my death. Being dead doesn’t make people better than they were in life.
piratedan
good.
Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)
Can’t say I’m broken up over this.
Gravenstone
Just saw the banner on CNN and my first thought was “well hot damn!”
I’ll stick with that sentiment…
Elizabelle
This is better than our, uh, difficult day losing Andrew Breitbart (ha!) because Breitbart at least had numerous humanizing characteristics.
Rush? No. Is Satanspeed a word?? It is now.
laura
I heartily approve of his exit.
Psy – popping champagne corks was my immediate thought. It’s not too early and I’ve got the dregs of the bottle of Inagural champers – maybe a wee mimosa is called for
Also, what Colette said!
GoBlueInOak
May he receive the reward in the afterlife that he so well and fully deserves.
sab
Woo!Hoo!
rikyrah
I’m having Subway for lunch.
And, I think round steak with gravy for dinner.
With red velvet cake for dessert.
Cheryl Rofer
Also –
TaMara (HFG)
@trollhattan: You win. We can shut down this thread now.
donnah
Limbaugh dead?
Yay!
That’s it.
Poe Larity
Since this news really isn’t important, I’ll just open thread this as former DoE Secretary Perry has weighed in since that last thread:
Never misunderestimate Texans.
Zelma
Ding, dong and all that….
sab
@trollhattan: Lol!
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@zzyzx: It’s a death we needed, not the death he deserved. On the other hand what were the 2021 writers going to do, drown Rush in a tub of bleach?
sab
Woo! Hoo!
mali muso
2021 just gets better and better. I am not ashamed to say that I let out a loud cheer.
dmsilev
@Poe Larity: The really frightening thing about Perry is that he was among the least-awful of T****’s Cabinet members.
Roger Moore
I would say the normal things about feeling sorry for his loved ones, but I doubt he has any.
Z. Mulls
@Comrade Colette: He stole my father too. Dad listened to him every day and I could no longer talk politics with him.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
I assume by “Texan” Perry means; white, male, Republican, age 55+ and makes over 150K a year?
ThresherK
Also “say(ing) nothing at all” here. Read into that what you will.
Dave L
Nil.
MisterForkbeard
@Comrade Colette: My wife says similar. He’s responsible for the radicalization of her father. There were other dominoes, but Limbaugh is the one most responsible for her dad’s outlook today.
Poe Larity
@trollhattan: Yeah, what did all of Hillary’s Black Helicopters ever accomplish?
UncleEbeneezer
(dancing gif)
Adam L Silverman
@Gravenstone:
via GIPHY
MisterForkbeard
@laura: I thought about making myself an irish coffee over this. Still might, though the alcohol will kill my diet.
Some things are worth the hit, though.
@Adam L Silverman: Candidate for the most appropriate gif ever on this blog.
NotMax
Glut of Oxycontin on the market begins in 3…2…1….
Jinchi
Normally I don’t speak ill of the dead, but he was an awful man who, on learning he was seriously ill, decided to spend his final months inciting bigotry and hatred.
opiejeanne
He made the world a better place…
by leaving it.
satby
It does indeed. Ok universe, now do Alex Jones!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
If Larry Flynt were still with us, I’m sure he’d offer a million dollars for a hot mike moment of the fourth Mrs Limbaugh saying, under her breath and behind the veil that hides the smile she can’t suppress: “about fucking time”
I’ll say this for him, in spite of his four wives, there was never a fourth Rusty
mrmoshpotato
@zzyzx:
The writers were mentally exhausted from 2020!
West of the Rockies
“He has assumed room temperature.”
Limbaugh derisively said that when someone he disliked passed. Right back at ya, buddy.
Cacti
You could make a reverse version of the story “It’s a Wonderful Life” about Rush Limbaugh…
Where Clarence the demon, tasked with taking Rusty’s soul to hell showed him scenes of all the people who might not have suffered had Rush never lived.
“You truly did lead a terrible life, Rush.”
Adam L Silverman
@Poe Larity: Never misunderestimate a man who got a C in Meats while pursuing a bachelors in agriculture.
Elizabelle
We are ALL giving up Rush Limbaugh for Lent. And forever. Allah be praised.
He tore so many families apart. I really hope that some of his dittoheads might wake up and smell the coffee, rather than fill their heads with sewage from another source. It could happen, for some of them.
scav
And the sun just came out here. Even nature is smiling.
(seriously, at least 4 good news events in 2 hours? I’m giddy.)
Elizabelle
@West of the Rockies:
On the way to transitioning to eternal flames and hellfire. I see him in an eternal Hieronymous Bosch hellscape.
I suspect some of his ex-wives may be breaking out the bubbly too. They already got paid.
Ksmiami
@zzyzx: He was here and now he’s gone. That’s all I can say…
Adam L Silverman
@MisterForkbeard: I’ve been saving it for a special occasion.
Uninvited Guest
)chef’s kiss(
schrodingers_cat
Nature is healing.
Elizabelle
@scav: I just looked in. What are the other 3 good events?
Have been offline this morning.
Mike in NC
Just added a bottle of Champagne to the shopping list.
Hungry Joe
Christopher Hitchens’ quip about Fallwell’s death seems appropriate: “If they gave him an enema they could bury him in a matchbox.”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think this is the first time in a long time I’ve wished Olbermann were still on TeeVee
msb
I hope he encounters more love and mercy than he showed to others
Watching the trump hazard come down in Atlantic City is pretty cool, especially as it raised money for charity.
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle:
Nominated.
germy
GregMulka
Trump’s hotel being imploded and Limbaugh dead? On my birthday? The universe is being very kind to me. Time to buy the powerball ticket and push my luck.
Suzanne
I’m smirking so hard.
ETA: Smirking like a Young Republican.
James E Powell
@dmsilev:
Remember when Rick Perry was a leading candidate for the Republican nomination but then he said something about immigrants being human beings and his campaign was over?
Elizabelle
Who is looking in at Red State? And perhaps Parler is lit too.
Ksmiami
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Eh Texans will start eating eachother (red meat and all) that reminds me of the old restaurant prank. Put in your name in as Donner party of 5 but when you’re called to the hostess stand just say eh we are 3 now, 2 of us didn’t make it
Baud
I’m upset that the Clintons are too classy to respond in a way I’d like them to.
SiubhanDuinne
@Elizabelle:
This is why I come to this place.
Splitting Image
Riddance good to rubbish bad.
Next up: Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney.
Martin
@Adam L Silverman: It was a ‘D’, actually.
Uninvited Guest
@msb:
Why?
Redshift
I have never wished for any man’s death (at least not out loud), but this is an obituary I will read with the greatest enthusiasm.
Baud
@GregMulka: Happy birthday!
germy
Immanentize
I’m teaching the “political question” part of con law right now. I wonder if a President can rescind a prior President’s award of the Presidential medal? Sounds like a good final exam question.
West of the Cascades
The electricity is back on in Portland, and Rush Limbaugh is dead, and it’s not even 10 am yet. Gonna be a good day.
ETA: power is back on in my neighborhood at least, after about 30 hours without – a lot of rural customers in Oregon still without power (about 100,000), nothing on the magnitude of what Texas is suffering.
Old Dan and Little Ann
That’s a shame.
mrmoshpotato
@Poe Larity: Same assclown who wanted to eliminate the Department of Energy.
Adam L Silverman
@Ksmiami: The Donner joke is mine. Specifically, I’m going to open a themed restaurant called Donner’s Family Style Dining. Smith party of 10, your table for 6 is ready…
Immanentize
@Redshift: I read my favorite new version of this from a Rabbi:
I celebrate no man’s death. But I do not weep for them all.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
“The evil that men do lives after them.”
–Willie Shakes
sab
@VeniceRiley: I will be curious if the rich people up the hill from me find the key to their flagpole that they couldn’t find when RBG died.1
Adam L Silverman
@Martin: I was feeling generous and commented on the curve.
scav
@Elizabelle: Well, mom got her first ouchie and it absolutely went smooth as silk for a total procedure (Jefferson Health Care!), and then there’s the sparkly fizzle of the casino collapse, that US power outage map is a joy (inner geographer breaks through) and a few other minor things that I’m seriously too giddy to remember quickly.
sab
@Immanentize:WAAH you are.
leeleeFL
@Hungry Joe: Thank You! I knew it was about burying him in a matchbox, could NOT remember the rest!
Immanentize
@Adam L Silverman:
Donner’s Family Style: Cold cuts are our specialty!
p.a.
Addition by subtraction. ?
Just One More Canuck
I’ll steal Bette Davis’ line when she heard about Joan Crawford’s death – “You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Rush Limbaugh is dead. Good.”
laura
@MisterForkbeard: I informed spouse that Rush was hurtling to hell and his immediate response was “I’ll drink to that.” It seems there’s a concurrance across the country.
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Colette:
@Z. Mulls:
My younger brother is yet another of Limbaugh’s innumerable … I don’t like to say “victims,” because they all have (or had) agency. But he fell under the Dittohead spell and went completely round the bend.
Immanentize
@Bruce K in ATH-GR: Dying does not remove the evil one does in life
— Some jackal?
counterfactual
I am hoping for a lengthy scandal-headline fight over the estate, finally revealing that he spent it all and left nothing.
sab
@Splitting Image: Henry Kissinger will outlive all of us, even Goku.
Immanentize
@p.a.: nice!
Redshift
@MisterForkbeard: I am so glad my parents weren’t TV watchers and never listened to talk radio. My dad picked up a little bit of it from Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for a while, but fortunately it wasn’t enough to stick.
NotMax
Celebrate Ass Endsday.
prostratedragon
@VeniceRiley: Oh! You’re damn right!
mrmoshpotato
@Jinchi:
Fixed.
Elizabelle
How they’re describing this human hellmouth in headlines: the euphemisms are out in full:
WaPost:
Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio provocateur and cultural phenomenon, dies at 70
NY Times:
NY Times: Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio’s Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70
A longtime favorite of the right, he was a furious critic of Barack Obama and a full-throated cheerleader for Donald J. Trump.
LA Times: Rush Limbaugh, highly influential conservative radio host, dies at 70
Rush Limbaugh had huge influence in the political sphere, setting the stage for the rise of conservative talk radio with ‘The Rush Limbaugh Show.’
Shakti
When I heard the news, I golf clapped at my desk and then did a little spite cardio dancing, bhangra x twerking x cancan style.
I take my small victories when I find them.
feebog
This is shaping up to be a pretty good Wednesday.
Redshift
Texas Democratic campaign slogan?
“If you don’t agree with Rick Perry that sticking it to the feds is more important than keeping the heat on in winter, vote for me!”
GregMulka
@Baud: Thanks Baud!
Elizabelle
@scav: Yea about scav’s mom! I will drink to all of your good news at cava o’clock, in a few short hours.
Biden saying at last night’s CNN Town Hall that we would all have access to vaccines by August; that was marvelous news. I am guessing he left himself some wiggle room in announcing that prospective deadline, having seen all the hay made over “You can keep your doctor.”
prostratedragon
@mali muso: Sometimes you just can’t catch them.
Immanentize
Immanentize
@mali muso: How are the dreams? Getting less awful? Mine are!
Betty Cracker
My mom died when she was 68 years old, and every time some terrible person dies who made it past 68 (one of the Koch bros, Adelson and now Limbaugh), it pisses me off just a little extra. It’s not like I expect life to be fair, but that seems especially unfair.
Oh well. With Limbaugh gone, Florida’s share of famous resident assholes dipped ever so slightly, but now that we have the entire shitgibbon klan, one hardly notices…
Ruckus
Never achieved peace in connection with anyone’s death before…….
Immanentize
@GregMulka: Happy Birthday. Excellent ending for your trip around our friend, the sun! ?
Delk
I used to think maybe you loved me now baby I’m sure…
NotMax
@GregMulka
Have a happy day!
(It’s Mom’s, too.)
scav
@Redshift: Wouldn’t Real Texans be whole-throatedly against sucking the Federal Socialist teat by allowing Federal military bases on their holy soil?
Jeffro
@Chat Noir: that almost sounds healthy!
Hmmmm
no, I’ll be good until 4pm Eastern and then all bets are off
Immanentize
@sab: Kissinger was replaced by a flatulent AI android with limited vocabulary in 1981 by Donald Trump at Studio 54. Everyone knows that!
/S/ Q.
Elizabelle
No reader comments allowed on the WaPost story. Imagine that!
dww44
@VeniceRiley: I hadn’t thought about that. But, you are so right, it WOULD have happened.
Ruckus
@SalterWobchak:
Don’t diminish the horribleness of cancer by association with him.
laura
catclub
@Splitting Image: Kissinger must be pushing 100
guachi
The irony of a cancer on the body politic dying of cancer. And a bigot dying during Black History Month.
Immanentize
@Shakti:
Video,, or it didn’t happen!
Elizabelle
Rupert Murdoch is watching this and may realize that people will be celebrating on at least three continents when he bites it.
So much of the ugliness and effects of climate change today: flow from those two monsters.
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker: only the good die young!
Salty Sam
I was taught to only say good things about someone who has died. OK:
Rush Limbaugh is dead.
Citizen Alan
@Elizabelle:
Name three.
Immanentize
@NotMax: Happy Mom Day! I guess Ash Wednesday is not a joyless moment after all. Please give her my best.
prostratedragon
@Adam L Silverman: And casino, for those last minute adjustments?
Immanentize
@scav: Jade Helm, man.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
He could have died of respiratory failure from COVID within days of having a maskless dinner party with Rupert Murdoch and the Mercers. That would have been a much better plot twist.
Ruckus
@Jinchi:
Then really no difference than the rest of his adult life.
Redshift
And Abbot should be shunned for begging for super-socialist federal disaster relief, right?
NotMax
Would it be in bad taste to post a little musical accompaniment to the topic?
(Nope, contains nary a ding or dong.)
;)
Anotherlurker
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
I didn’t write that because I knew someone would beat me to it.
raven
Xin Loi asshole.
Starboard Tack
@Elizabelle:
Fire and brimstone’s too good for him. I hope he spends an eternity in a UU discussion group, without the power of speech.
Immanentize
@laura: I love that I can inspire IRAC-trained brains to fire from afar!
My question for my students today was: Trump moved the embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Could Biden open a US Embassy to Palestine in East Jerusalem? Political question or no?
Elizabelle
@Citizen Alan: Breitbart helped found Huffington Post, FWIW.
He had an occasional sense of humor; I am not speaking of all the punching down he did.
His father in law was Orson Bean, who was a cool old guy who was hit by a car at a very old age while on his way to the theatre. (OK, that’s human by association.)
I was not sorry to hear that Breitbart kicked it, and even less sorry to see Limbaugh’s demise. The great tragedy is that Rush was granted such a long life. He injected way too much poison into the system.
Starboard Tack
@Redshift:
Socialism is when other people get government money.
Elizabelle
@Starboard Tack: Remind me what UU is? Is it the Universal Unitarian church? (Home of the mitten tree, if I remember …)
Elizabelle
@Anotherlurker: We hear you!
Immanentize
@Starboard Tack: I do not want to go to the hell you would fashion for me!
Ruckus
@Hungry Joe:
Now that is a great send off for someone as great as this.
catclub
@scav:
It should be noted that, unlike most of the useless red states that get more money from the federal government than they contribute, Texas does contribute more than it gets back. … MUCH more prosperous businesses. Also lots of oil.
Dan B
@Cheryl Rofer: I love the cheers from the crowd as the casino hotel disappears into the cloud of dust!
Too bad Rush missed a ‘Slim Pickens”* opportunity.
* Dr. Strangelove finale. But riding the flame out of Rush’s greatest achievement – The Grand Turnip! con. The great American success story – snatching bankruptcy from the jaws of
victorya major inheritance.catclub
@Elizabelle:
Unitarian Universalist.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Happy birthday to NotMom!
germy
NotMax
@Immanentize
A legation, almost surely. An embassy would be another matter as (IMHO) that would constitute official recognition as an independent nation, a rather sticky wicket.
germy
Doc Sardonic
@Betty Cracker: I think the unbridled joy from having the Shitgibbons as his new neighbors might be what sent him off.
germy
Response to the NYT obituary:
Immanentize
@catclub: not really accurate. Of course it depends what you count:
Aziz, light!
Roast in hell, motherfucker.
Too soon?
Starboard Tack
@Elizabelle:
That’s it. A joke is that if a Universalist Unitarian had a choice between Heaven, and a discussion about Heaven, they’d go to the discussion.
AnotherBruce
Im beginning to like 2021!
Captain C
@NotMax:
I’m stealing this.
Immanentize
@Immanentize: versus:
Linky
Starboard Tack
@Elizabelle:
You may be thinking of the UCC, the United Church of Christ, which was the merger of the Evangelical & Reform, and Congregationalist churches. I remember the mitten tree from when I was a kid.
germy
Response to the Washington Post obituary:
opiejeanne
@MisterForkbeard: My dad, as well. Fuck Rush for that.
Chief Oshkosh
@Splitting Image: And I’ll raise you one Ruport Murdoch.
Citizen Alan
@Poe Larity:
So the same political party that told older Texans that they should be willing to die of Covid in order to preserve the economy for their children is now telling all Texans that they should be willing to freeze to death in their homes just so that Republicans can have some feeble talking point to use against windmills and solar power? If Texas doesn’t go blue after this, they’re a lost cause.
trollhattan
@germy:
“Deficit hawk” was lost to the vernacular once folks applauded Bush II’s tax cuts that erased our surplus.
PaulWartenberg
My first tweet about Rush’s passing:
https://twitter.com/PaulWartenberg/status/1362097286654922757
PaulWartenberg
@Starboard Tack:
Even the Unitarians would shun Rush.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Elizabelle
@Starboard Tack: Thank you.
I was remembering a column by the late Michael Kelly, which mentioned the mitten tree. It was a good one. (He was The Atlantic Monthly editor who was killed on a trip to Iraq.) Didn’t care for Kelly’s neocon takes, but the mitten tree column about working across religious differences was a good one.
PaulWartenberg
@Comrade Colette:
My dad is – was, now – a fervent follower of Rush’s radio show and diatribes. There were times when dad said to me “Paul, you should consider getting into radio and using your time to repeat what Rush says every day!” And I would tell Dad “for starters, that’s plagiarism and I’d get sued if all I did was parrot another person’s radio show. Secondly, I don’t want to repeat the evil shit Rush says about other people.”
I’ve tried to get my dad to read/follow more reasonable conservative figures who weren’t rabid rage merchants – Frum at the least – but no, my dad got toxified by Rush and O’Reilly and Hannity and nowadays Tucker. I’ve given up on trying to save my parents from that and just try to save myself from that level of rage.
Bex
Is Clarence Thomas doing the funeral? Didn’t he marry Rush once? Also, will Himself attend?
germy
Most likely. Yes. Most likely.
NotMax
@Bex
Shh. Don’t tell Ginni.
germy
Limbaugh’s good friend Sajak. Who tweeted “better luck next time” the morning after HRC lost to Trump.
Miss Bianca
Our county attorney interrupted a county commissioner meeting to issue what were, to him, and obviously expected to be for everyone there, very sad tidings.
I was glad I was muted on a conference call, so that no one heard *my* reaction to that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
On the occasion of Rush Limbaugh’s passing, I think it’s appropriate to repeat Rush’s comments when Jerry Garcia died:
“Just another dead doper. And a dirt bag.”
Comrade Colette
@germy:
“a” mistake? Well, I guess if you consider Limbaugh’s entire life a mistake, that’s accurate.
I have never paid the slightest attention to Sajak so I was unaware that he’s a dittohead fuckwad.
Bex
@NotMax: Like she’d notice?
Another Scott
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: He’s got a YouTube channel where he still does the ranty thing that he’s very good at – https://www.youtube.com/c/worstperson
Cheers,
Scott.
Brachiator
Just tuned in to media and the Internets, and am seeing the news about Rush.
2021 may be a pretty good year. A few things keep getting better and better.
And if we get the pandemic licked, they will be able to have a long line of people waiting to piss on Rush’s grave without the need for a lot of social distancing.
I hope the cemetery provides sufficiently for runoff.
germy
Sasha
May his memory be a warning.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Enough to spin a turbine to provide power for the whole place.
;)
Subsole
@zzyzx:
I will mourn that he didn’t die sooner.
It really still amazes me that there are actually people who make the world better by leaving it…
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@germy: <Mr. Burns>Excellent.</Mr. Burns>
I did wonder why he took that position. The Turtle never does anything without careful calculation, so I assume he judged this was the likeliest path to survival and that he was going to outlast the pro-Trump wing of the party.I’d like to see them eat him and THEN implode. A sort of ourobouros thing.
Or perhaps a better analogy is this.
cwmoss
Erik Loomis has the reference standard for Rush obit.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/02/the-gasbag-of-fascism
different-church-lady
@?BillinGlendaleCA: One could probably make a pretty good obituary for Limbaugh from just quoting nasty things he said upon the deaths of others.
Subsole
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Yeah. The only Texans who’d gladly be without power for 3 more days are the kind that ain’t doing without now.
Subsole
@Adam L Silverman:
Hell, did you see those pics of Cornyn’s barbecue???
Subsole
@mrmoshpotato: Second.
Subsole
@GregMulka: Happy birthday!
TheTruffle
I’ve been listening to various versions of “Ding Dong the Witch Is Dead” since I heard the news.
Elizabelle
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Jerry Garcia had more talent (and decency) in his one missing finger than …
cain
If there is one thing we should all be grateful for – that Dems are in charge of the federal govt – otherwise this asshole will be lying in state in the capitol building while Republicans circle jerk around his corpse waxing eloquence while their noses are firmly buried in his putrid and decomposing asshole.
What? Too soon?
Subsole
@catclub: Also worth mentioning that, ironically enough, the ones who most loudly feel that way tend to have spent some time in those military bases…
Elizabelle
Interesting. The FTF NY Times changed their website front page headline and blurb about RL’s death.
They originally had (and it’s still what you see when you click on the story):
Rush Limbaugh, Talk Radio’s Conservative Provocateur, Dies at 70
A longtime favorite of the right, he was a furious critic of Barack Obama and a full-throated cheerleader for Donald J. Trump.
Now, it is:
Rush Limbaugh, Who Built Talk Radio Into Right-Wing Attack Machine, Dies
Mr. Limbaugh, 70, who helped transform the G.O.P., pushed talk radio to the right with misogynistic and racist language and conspiracy theories.
The Times seems to be having a culture war within its ranks, for real. Good. They need it.
Subsole
@Citizen Alan:
No, if we don’t go blue after this it’s because we still haven’t recovered from a decade’s worth of rampant voter suppression measures. Which they’re ratcheting up. Georgia has them SCARED.
LurkerNoLonger
@germy: Sajak can shut his pumpkin head.
germy
@LurkerNoLonger:
randal m sexton
Him and Sheldon Adelson are now circle-mates with Roger Ailes. maybe Rupert can join them soon.
Jinchi
It seems to me that the Republicans could shut this nonsense down real fast if any of them reacted to the party censure with, ‘Okay, you don’t want me in the party. I’ll just start caucusing with the Democrats’.
Obviously that wouldn’t work for Mitch, but pretty much any of the 7 Senate Republican outcasts could make the jump if they had a mind to.
Brachiator
@germy:
This is Death Cult Supreme.
Trump was never really a Republican, or not much of anything. He saw that the GOP fit his resentments and was ripe for his grift.
But now the GOP goobers love Trump even more than they loved Reagan.
This is insane.
The chaos can’t last, but it is fun to watch them battle each other for now.
Gravenstone
@germy: A mistake? Singular? That fucking syphilitic chancre’s whole existence was a mistake!
Just Chuck
@germy: Boy oh boy it’d sure be a shame if the wingnuts started pulling all their campaign donations from Turtle’s warchest to spend on internecine conflict. It really would pwn this lib and make him cry I tell ya.