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Rush Limbaugh Is Dead And America is a Slightly Better Place

by John Cole|  February 17, 20213:33 pm| 209 Comments

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Even if you disapproved of Rush Limbaugh, vicious and cruel comments about his death will NOT be tolerated on this Twitter page.

They will be encouraged.

— Victor Laszlo (@Impolitics) February 17, 2021

The rancid syphilitic piece of shit is dead, and good riddance. This man did as much damage to this country as Fox news, and he was fucking evil to the very end. I used to listen to him when I was young and right out of the army and didn’t know any better, and several years of his bullshit probably is part of the reason it took me so long to snap out of it.

I know many of you think it is improper to speak ill of the dead, and all I can say is boy howdy this is not the thread for you. Fuck that piece of shit. I don’t believe in heaven and hell, but in the off chance I am wrong, I hope he is suffering right now. There will be no tone policing in the comments, because fuck him.

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    1. 1.

      smedley the uncertain

      February 17, 2021 at 3:37 pm

      No need to hold back Cole. But, my thoughts exactly.

      OOOOh, a one’er

      Reply
    2. 2.

      Wyatt Salamanca

      February 17, 2021 at 3:38 pm

      It’s entirely fitting that Rush Limbaugh died from cancer because he himself was a malignant media carcinogen.

      Good riddance to this sadistic, pathological lying bastard.

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Enhanced Voting Techniques

      February 17, 2021 at 3:39 pm

      Has a grave site been determined for the man? I am hoping for public access so we can show Rush, deep down, what we think of him. If you will.

      Reply
    4. 4.

      Betty Cracker

      February 17, 2021 at 3:40 pm

      There are a fair number of obituaries I’d read with quiet satisfaction but only a handful of deaths I’d actually celebrate. Limbaugh’s is one of them.

      Reply
    5. 5.

      Royston Vasey

      February 17, 2021 at 3:40 pm

      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.”

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Ivan X

      February 17, 2021 at 3:40 pm

      My introduction to Limbaugh was when I was but a wee lad of 18 working in my dad’s office in Orange County. Some of the staff had it on in the room where I was working. Even at that tender age, I immediately had the feeling that every workplace should ban that shit. I don’t remember what it was, but at some point I just had to rest my head on my folded arms in disgust.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      mrmoshpotato

      February 17, 2021 at 3:40 pm

      I know many of you think it is improper to speak ill of the dead

      I’m not one of them. FUCK LIMBAUGH!​
       

      ETA

      There will be no tone policing in the comments, because fuck him.

      Amen Cole.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      Old School

      February 17, 2021 at 3:40 pm

      Haven’t noticed much tone policing in the earlier threads, so I think you’re safe.

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    9. 9.

      leeleeFL

      February 17, 2021 at 3:41 pm

      @smedley the uncertain: Thanks for permission to vent!  I too hope there actually is some misery for Rush.  He caused so much pain and suffering in family after family, some will never speak to each other again, and that is a terrible crime.

      Fuck him with that rusty pitchfork

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    10. 10.

      Baud

      February 17, 2021 at 3:41 pm

      There will be no tone policing in the comments, because fuck him that would dishonor the type of culture that Limbaugh himself propagated.

      Reply
    11. 11.

      Frank Wilhoit

      February 17, 2021 at 3:41 pm

      For the hemidemisemisquillionth time, never look at the storyteller.  Always look at the audience.

      Reply
    12. 12.

      germy

      February 17, 2021 at 3:42 pm

      Poor Rush is dead
      Poor Rush Limbaugh's dead
      He's lying there so pretty and so nice
      He looks like he's asleep
      And it's a shame that he won't keep
      But it's summer and we're running out of ice

      — redoubtagain (@EOJ2274) February 17, 2021

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    13. 13.

      Lavocat

      February 17, 2021 at 3:43 pm

      My wife just told me the news about an hour ago and I think I scared the hell out of her because I yelled from the basement “FUCK YEAH!” in the loudest most fuck-you-I’m-so-fucking-glad-you’re-fucking-dead-you-fucking-asshole-motherFUCKER! voice that I have.

      Also, may he be assfucked by Beelzebub with a barbed-wire dildo for all eternity.

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    14. 14.

      Gin & Tonic

      February 17, 2021 at 3:43 pm

      I hope he suffered.

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    15. 15.

      Lavocat

      February 17, 2021 at 3:44 pm

      @Enhanced Voting Techniques: I am NOT above shitting on someone’s grave, I sheepishly admit.

      Reply
    16. 16.

      germy

      February 17, 2021 at 3:45 pm

      rush was gleeful at the dead who had politics he didn't like and i think it's honoring his memory properly to give him the same benefit

      — 𝓢𝓹𝓸𝓻𝓴𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓽𝓼 (@sporkboot) February 17, 2021

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    17. 17.

      Roger Moore

      February 17, 2021 at 3:45 pm

      Q: What was the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?

      A: One was a flaming Nazi gasbag, and the other was a dirigible.

      Reply
    18. 18.

      Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

      February 17, 2021 at 3:46 pm

      Limbaugh and Trump are two of the top ten worst people this country has ever coughed up.  One down, one to go.

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    19. 19.

      sab

      February 17, 2021 at 3:47 pm

      The site will lose all of its advertisers today. Sigh. But YAY anyhow.

      Reply
    20. 20.

      MisterForkbeard

      February 17, 2021 at 3:47 pm

      @Ivan X: My first introduction was Franken’s Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, and it was spot on.

      I’ve continued to listen to him on and off over the years. A couple minutes on my work commute before I got disgusted and turned the channel, etc. And what strikes me is just how terrible of a human being he was, and how similar he was to the evangelical preachers I’ve also listened to.

      Just full of hate, self-righteousness and a complete unwillingness to examine anything about themselves. Democrats are evil BECAUSE THEY ARE and Republicans are awesome and godly because they are, so therefore any and all news has to be maximally bad or good. Or you can just make stuff up, and that’s fine.

      And both are all-in on toxic nationalism, sexism, and racism. Because that’s how they keep their audience.

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    21. 21.

      M31

      February 17, 2021 at 3:47 pm

      in death he finally assumes the form he took in life — a putrid pile of rancid meat

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    22. 22.

      germy

      February 17, 2021 at 3:47 pm

      Rush Limbaugh’s Dominican Stag Party
      29 Viagra pills, two “24” producers among radio star’s all-male crew

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      mrmoshpotato

      February 17, 2021 at 3:48 pm

      @Enhanced Voting Techniques: ​
       

      Has a grave site been determined for the man? I am hoping for public access so we can show Rush, deep down, what we think of him. If you will.

      Bladder or bowels?

      Reply
    24. 24.

      mdblanche

      February 17, 2021 at 3:50 pm

      If you can’t say something nice, come sit next to 6′ from me.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      Mike E

      February 17, 2021 at 3:50 pm

      In case you missed it 🙂

      Imani Gandy

      @AngryBlackLady

      finally something good happens during Black History Month.

      12:39 PM · Feb 17, 2021

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    26. 26.

      Rob Lll

      February 17, 2021 at 3:50 pm

      The most vivid memory I have of hearing Rush Limbaugh is from the early 90s. My car was being repaired and they had his show on in the garage while I waited. He was chortling over the death of River Phoenix, who had passed a couple days before, and all I could think about was how Phoenix’s mother or siblings would feel if they ever heard it. Limbaugh was a horrible person who lived an ugly life and I can’t think of any redeeming feature he had. The world is improved by his absence, although it would be even better had he never lived at all.

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    27. 27.

      AliceBlue

      February 17, 2021 at 3:51 pm

      I heard about it on the way to my dental appointment. I had a big ole grin when I walked into the office.

      OT, I also heard that every state in the country now has snow on the ground except Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

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      mrmoshpotato

      February 17, 2021 at 3:52 pm

      @Frank Wilhoit: ​
       I would argue look at both the storyteller and the audience, because the teller doesn’t go on without an audience.

      Reply
    29. 29.

      Odie Hugh Manatee

      February 17, 2021 at 3:52 pm

      What a nice day… Biden/Harris are in charge, the sun is shining, it’s a bit warmer outside and Rush is worm food. I’m hoping that I get the chance to piss on the piece of shits grave.

      There’s probably going to be a long line at his grave for some time, but it’ll be worth the wait.

      Reply
    30. 30.

      MisterForkbeard

      February 17, 2021 at 3:52 pm

      @AliceBlue: In California, too? Maybe up in the mountains, I guess.

      Reply
    31. 31.

      mdblanche

      February 17, 2021 at 3:52 pm

      @mrmoshpotato:

      Bladder or bowels?

      Yes.

      Reply
    32. 32.

      James E Powell

      February 17, 2021 at 3:53 pm

      The first time I heard that asshole on the radio, I thought he was a parody, like that later made famous by Colbert. I was appalled when I realized he was serious and that people I knew were buying his book.

      Reply
    33. 33.

      Roger Moore

      February 17, 2021 at 3:54 pm

      @mrmoshpotato:

      Bladder or bowels?

      ­¿Por que no los dos?

      Reply
    34. 34.

      Marmot

      February 17, 2021 at 3:54 pm

      @Frank Wilhoit:

      … never look at the storyteller.  Always look at the audience.

      wha? Limb is the storyteller? You hate the audience?

      Reply
    35. 35.

      Keith P.

      February 17, 2021 at 3:54 pm

      Another reason I’m glad for President Biden – Trump would have declared tomorrow a national day of mourning.

      Reply
    36. 36.

      randal m sexton

      February 17, 2021 at 3:54 pm

      This is sort of a preview of what it will be like when the OrangeFuck kicks it.  Or Murdoch, or McConnell.  There is quite a list of folks whose death will make my day.

      Reply
    37. 37.

      chopper

      February 17, 2021 at 3:56 pm

      fuck him. to say i’m glad he’s dead is an understatement.

      Reply
    38. 38.

      Baud

      February 17, 2021 at 3:57 pm

      @Keith P.:

      Another reason I’m glad for President Biden – Trump would have declared tomorrow a national day of mourning.

      Is it possible to raise the flag 50% higher than the top of the pole?

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    39. 39.

      brendancalling

      February 17, 2021 at 3:57 pm

      My mom  died of lung cancer. It was horrible, but thankfully swift. We made a family decision to remove her from life support after her body basically gave out. I ordinarily would not wish that on anyone else, but I will make an exception for Rush Limbaugh, who my mother wished death on more times than I can count. He was a miserable piece of shit in every single way—he was a racist, virulently ant-gay, a misogynist, and (if the rumors are true about the Dominican Republic trips) an avid pedophile.

      I hope he’s in Hell right now, burning and screaming for mercy. Awaiting reprisal, your time slips away.

      Reply
    40. 40.

      Patricia Kayden

      February 17, 2021 at 3:58 pm

      Limbaugh was cruelty personified. Any non-cruel response to his death is an implicit condemnation of cruelty, and thus dishonors his legacy. https://t.co/NmQJDCLdOC— Valentom's Day Hilton (@TVHilton) February 17, 2021

      Reply
    41. 41.

      gvg

      February 17, 2021 at 3:59 pm

      Boy did he hate women too.

      I had a black neighbor, seemed really nice, but he said he listened to Limbaugh and agreed with some of his views. I never understood that.

      Reply
    42. 42.

      Roger Moore

      February 17, 2021 at 4:00 pm

      @Rob Lll: ​ The thing I remember about Limbaugh was seeing him on TV. He was disparaging a book by someone or other- it was probably Al Gore, but I’m not sure. To “prove” how bad it was, he tore out a page, wrapped it in ground meat, and put it in front of a cat. When the cat wouldn’t eat it- would you want to eat something Rush Limbaugh’s filthy hands had just touched?- he said something stupid about how even the cat wouldn’t [Edited] eat swallow it, so you shouldn’t either. It was just so stupid and divorced from reality. I guess if you already agreed with him about everything, it would seem like a clever retort.​

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    43. 43.

      Wyatt Salamanca

      February 17, 2021 at 4:01 pm

      I’m sure there’ll be plenty of pathetic, disgusting tributes to Limbaugh, but this one by Brian Stelter (that clueless douchebag at CNN who covers the media industry) takes the fucking cake for the sheer nausea it induces:

      “That daily relationship, talking to people who are driving in their cars, turning on the radio at noon eastern time everyday in their homes, wanting to hear from him every afternoon,” Stelter said. “The contact was very polarizing, I would argue oftentimes it was all about grieving grievance culture, making conservatives out to be the victims, and yet he had a an incredible connection to his fan base with those daily themes, day in, day out. The kind of connection that made him the most prominent broadcaster in right-wing radio for decades.”

      Stelter went on to tell John King that “sometimes liberals would say to me ‘Rush Limbaugh, he’s a damaging force in the United States, he must be stopped,’ and my reaction in those conversations would be to say learn from him.”

      “Go and listen to his show. See what he does that is so appealing to his listeners. And then if you’re a liberal activist, you can go try to do it better. If you’re a progressive advocate, go try to do it better,” Stelter said. “But the point is there are lessons to be learned from Rush Limbaugh. And some of them are about, there are times where he was crass, ugly, indecent, that’s absolutely true, I’m not saying those are lessons to be learned from his radio show. But he also was able to forge connections with his listeners and give people a reason to come back every day, and there were those sorts of skills that I would argue could be learned from Rush and from his career, and those are some of the reasons why this is a massive loss for the Republican party, for the conservative movement, because he was an icon for the party.”

       

      h/t https://www.mediaite.com/news/cnns-brian-stelter-praises-rush-limbaughs-connection-with-audience-at-length-following-brutal-film-package/

      Reply
    44. 44.

      Hungry Joe

      February 17, 2021 at 4:02 pm

      “If they gave him an enema they could bury him in a matchbox.” — Christopher Hitchens, on the death of Jerry Falwell.

      The non-fecal remains of Rush L. might require two matchboxes, but surely no more than that.

      Reply
    45. 45.

      MisterForkbeard

      February 17, 2021 at 4:02 pm

      @gvg: Look, I agreed with some of Limbaugh’s views: I thought gravity existed and humans are supposed to breathe air.

      But Limbaugh really appealed to people who wanted to look down and hate on others. Sometimes he would go after you and your group, and those folks were okay with that because he’d also assure them they were ‘one of the good ones’. And they want that, so they can look down on others.

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    46. 46.

      Elie

      February 17, 2021 at 4:02 pm

      @Betty Cracker:

       

      I hope they ran out of morphine (which eases labored breathing at the end of life), at least 24 hours before he drew his last breath.   I would shoot it down the toilet — every dose he had.  Then I would thumb through a magazine as he thrashed in pain.

      I don’t know if there is a God.  He had better hope there aint.

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    47. 47.

      Gravie

      February 17, 2021 at 4:03 pm

      It would be fitting if he were reincarnated as one of the children starving in Syrian refugee camps, or one of the children exploited in the sex trade in the Dominican Republic by sweaty old men like him — maybe Rush himself! — or someone stricken with Parkinson’s disease. So many poetic justice possibilities.

      Reply
    48. 48.

      MoeLarryAndJesus

      February 17, 2021 at 4:03 pm

      Can I do the autopsy?

      I’ll rent a chainsaw.

      I’ll cut out his tongue so he’ll be buried with it in his ass.

      His eyeballs get tossed to the crows.

      Reply
    49. 49.

      Mike

      February 17, 2021 at 4:03 pm

      It’s just so fitting that the rancid, evil bastard Rush died from lung cancer after years of defending the tobacco companies and claiming that tobacco doesn’t cause lung cancer! I consider this Karma in action! If there is a Hell, Rush is surely there with his ‘god’ Satan! The world just became a brighter and kinder place!

      Reply
    50. 50.

      MisterForkbeard

      February 17, 2021 at 4:05 pm

      @Wyatt Salamanca: he also was able to forge connections with his listeners and give people a reason to come back every day, and there were those sorts of skills that I would argue could be learned from Rush and from his career

      He was able to forge connections with his listeners through racism, sexism, lies and giving them a full-on reason to hate the people they wanted to hate.

      None of this is laudable. Stelter can fuck himself. But he’s right that this is a loss for the Republicans, because he and they traded in the exact same thing.

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    51. 51.

      LurkerNoLonger

      February 17, 2021 at 4:06 pm

      I know a lot of people are saying they didn’t wish death on him, but when I found out he had terminal cancer, I was counting the days until he died.

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    52. 52.

      Chief Oshkosh

      February 17, 2021 at 4:06 pm

      I’m so old I remember when Rush very first started on AM radio. Hannity, too. I remember so, so many people on the left (and in the middle) who took the stance that ignoring them was best, and that they’d go away. And I remember thinking “You’re nuts!”

      Anyway, Rushbo and colleagues are good examples of why you should always be on offense. For instance, it would be a very good thing if Uncle Joe simply froze all Murdoch assets under US purview. Hell, get some allies in on it, too (if we still have any). Just do it out of the blue, with minimal explanation beyond invoking some of the shitty powers we conferred onto Shrub after 9/11. Just fuck with him. Do the same with every Fox and WSJ advertiser. Make it toxic to do business with ol’ Rupert. Just fuck with them, and don’t offer any real explanation without being forced into court. I know a lot of people will demur, but shit, look where being nice got us. And look at the tools that they’ve given us. May as well use them until everyone agrees that those tools need to be taken away from the Executive. Until then? Fuck with them. It’s actually the right thing to do.

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    53. 53.

      evap

      February 17, 2021 at 4:07 pm

      Once again, I am reminded why I visit this place several times a day.  Thanks, John!

      And FUCK FUCK FUCK Rush Limbaugh

      Reply
    54. 54.

      pacem appellant

      February 17, 2021 at 4:07 pm

      Dē mortibus nihil nisi sed bonum.

      Mors. Bonum.

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    55. 55.

      mali muso

      February 17, 2021 at 4:08 pm

      Makes me wish I still believed in God, because if hell was an actual place, there are few people more deserving of an eternal stay there than that guy.  Good riddance.

      Reply
    56. 56.

      Don K

      February 17, 2021 at 4:08 pm

      “My mother always told me never to say bad things about the dead, only say good things. Rush Limbaugh is dead. GOOD!!”

      Reply
    57. 57.

      AndoChronic

      February 17, 2021 at 4:08 pm

      Talk radio did to our parents what they thought rock n’ roll would do to us.

      Reply
    58. 58.

      Frankensteinbeck

      February 17, 2021 at 4:08 pm

      Like I said in the last thread, for those of you who have never heard Limbaugh’s show, imagine the most vile bigot cracking disgusting and cruel jokes because he’s sure you agree with him and he doesn’t have to hold anything back.  Limbaugh was worse than that.  He was a fire hose of crass hate.  If you hear any conservative praising him, that is what they are praising.

      @Wyatt Salamanca:

      The lesson of Rush Limbaugh is that the conservative movement is hate, and Republicans desperately crave to spew their venom without restraint.  There’s nothing we can use there.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      citizen dave

      February 17, 2021 at 4:08 pm

      @Roger Moore: Oh god, you made me remember when he was at his height and his god-awful, stupid stupid stupid tee vee show.

      I had a work friend colleague from another state who was a couple years ahead of Rush in high school at Cape Girardeau.  My friend was not a rush fan.

      The jackals are making me laugh today–lots of great art being practiced.  Although I only was here for a couple years overlapping with the great jackal, thinking of efgoldman and ‘fuckem.

      Fuck Rush Limbaugh.

      Reply
    60. 60.

      scav

      February 17, 2021 at 4:09 pm

      Side note to his fans: the only reason your deaths will not be similarly celebrated is you’ve smaller magaphones.

      Reply
    61. 61.

      MazeDancer

      February 17, 2021 at 4:10 pm

      Rich Lowry has an especially repulsive thread on Twitter calling Rush funny and generous and a giant. Makes “starbursts” feel benign. He is, of course, getting excoriated. Won’t link.

      Will link to “We Rate Dogs” tweeting a different dog available for adoption every hour. They all look great:

      https://twitter.com/dog_rates?s=21

      Reply
    62. 62.

      hells littlest angel

      February 17, 2021 at 4:11 pm

      @Ivan X:Some of the staff had it on in the room where I was working.

      George Costanza got fired for that.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      Beagleowned

      February 17, 2021 at 4:11 pm

      • My mother insisted I should only say good things about the recently deceased.  Therefore, in her honor; Rush Limbaugh has died.
        Good.
      Reply
    64. 64.

      pacem appellant

      February 17, 2021 at 4:12 pm

      Once upon a time, I got a three day ban from the GOS for being happy that Scalia croaked. I am unrepentant. Fuck Rush, too. Right in his goddamn deaf ears.

      Reply
    65. 65.

      Patricia Kayden

      February 17, 2021 at 4:12 pm

      “Don’t speak ill of the dead,” was invented by someone who knew they were gonna get shit-talked real bad.— Dennis DiClaudio (@dennisdiclaudio) February 17, 2021

      Reply
    66. 66.

      citizen dave

      February 17, 2021 at 4:12 pm

      @Chief Oshkosh: Agree.  Bezos or Gates could do the nation a great service simply by buying a shit-ton of AM radio and replacing the gas bags with music and community and citizen education.  I doubt it would too expensive for either one of them.

      Reply
    67. 67.

      Baud

      February 17, 2021 at 4:12 pm

      @Frankensteinbeck:

      The lesson of Rush Limbaugh is that the conservative movement is hate, and Republicans desperately crave to spew their venom without restraint. There’s nothing we can use there.

      QFT.

      Reply
    68. 68.

      Benw

      February 17, 2021 at 4:13 pm

      The asshole who was TOO RACIST to do commentary for the NFL.

      Donovan McNabb remembers.

      Reply
    69. 69.

      Baud

      February 17, 2021 at 4:13 pm

      @AndoChronic:

      If you’re young enough, you could say the same thing about the Internet.

      Reply
    70. 70.

      comrade scotts agenda of rage

      February 17, 2021 at 4:16 pm

      Satan is preparing for that delivery of blubber to keep the fires of Hell burning.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      Marmot

      February 17, 2021 at 4:16 pm

      @Chief Oshkosh: I remember so, so many people on the left (and in the middle) who took the stance that ignoring them was best, and that they’d go away. And I remember thinking “You’re nuts!”

      Jezus I remember that. Like going on offense was going to somehow make us cross over into the dark side, like real life is in the fucking Star Wars universe.
      I sometimes hear that  same advice from conflict-averse non-political types and liberals, but thankfully rarely. After all, it’s obviously wrong.

      Reply
    72. 72.

      CaseyL

      February 17, 2021 at 4:17 pm

      He was a man of whom truly it can be said that his finest hour would have been if his father had rolled over and let Rush dribble down his leg.

      I have been waiting for this day since the worthless vicious waste of air announced his diagnosis.

      Limbaugh is dead. That’s worth celebrating!

      Reply
    73. 73.

      MomSense

      February 17, 2021 at 4:18 pm

      He used to gleefully celebrate the deaths of people who died from HIV/AIDS so fuck that fucking disgusting piece of shit. He leaves behind a legacy of cruelty, ignorance and destruction.  

      Reply
    74. 74.

      A Ghost to Most

      February 17, 2021 at 4:18 pm

      Rush Limbaugh is still dead.

      I doubt that line will get old soon.

      Reply
    75. 75.

      citizen dave

      February 17, 2021 at 4:19 pm

      Just looking at twitter and saw that thing in his skull.  No one has mentioned, but we should recall, that he bloviated about Personal Responsibility SO HARD in the 1990s, then abused oxycontin so badly it made him deaf.  The irony.  It makes me laugh.

      Reply
    76. 76.

      Sis

      February 17, 2021 at 4:21 pm

      I had honestly wondered if a terminal illness would cause him to reassess his life and decide to be kinder during the time he had left. I should have known better. He remained vicious and rotten all the way to the end.

      I will never understand how people could be delighted by his brand of cruelty, even people I knew to be remarkably kind one-on-one.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      Brachiator

      February 17, 2021 at 4:21 pm

      I know many of you think it is improper to speak ill of the dead, and all I can say is boy howdy this is not the thread for you.

      To speak honestly about Rush is to note what a vicious piece of shit he was, and how much misery he deliberately caused other people.

      The world is a better place with his passing.

      I know that I certainly feel better.

      I welcome the mealy mouth comments of any asswipe pundit or reporter who asks that Rush’s demise be accorded any respect.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      Doc Sardonic

      February 17, 2021 at 4:21 pm

      @AliceBlue: We have Florida snow, grey nasty sky and a light mist falling. Temp drops about 30 degrees or so it’ll be snow, right now it’s just pneumonia catchin’ weather.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      pluky

      February 17, 2021 at 4:22 pm

      @Gin & Tonic:  He had terminal lung cancer. Suffering is not optional. Google “bone and brain metastices”.

      Reply
    80. 80.

      Aziz, light!

      February 17, 2021 at 4:23 pm

      I don’t believe that Rush is anything but worm food, but I think the worms will spit him out.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      M31

      February 17, 2021 at 4:24 pm

      @scav: Side note to his fans: the only reason your deaths will not be similarly celebrated is you’ve smaller magaphones.

      magaphones are just as loud as regular megaphones but much, much uglier

      Reply
    82. 82.

      Chief Oshkosh

      February 17, 2021 at 4:24 pm

      Another thing about being this old is that it’s just sad that anyone younger than say, 45, doesn’t remember a time when government somewhat worked and when regular old lunch bucket types didn’t absolutely hate each other on a tribal-like basis. I know that the US had plenty of problems, but even after all the horrors of the 60s (esp. ’68), and even after Nixon was elected, and then re-elected, things always seemed to be getting just a little bit better. Now, no doubt my rose-tinted glasses come from being worn by a pudgy, aging white guy. Still, it did seem like things were getting better. Slowly, but better.

      Rush and Newt and Rupert and St. Ronnie and their ilk — they killed all of that.

      Reply
    83. 83.

      Marmot

      February 17, 2021 at 4:25 pm

      @citizen dave: this point can’t be emphasized enough. He developed an addiction after years and years of advocating against sound addiction policy.

      And always, it was all about that kind of personal responsibility that only applies to other people.

      Reply
    84. 84.

      Ksmiami

      February 17, 2021 at 4:25 pm

      @Lavocat: Ding dong the asshole’s gone…

      Reply
    85. 85.

      Jeffro

      February 17, 2021 at 4:26 pm

      When picturing the “North Koreanization” of America’s conservatives, I always think of Fox News.  But Limbaugh’s just about equally to blame.  So hey, El Rushbo (champagne cork popping)…this one’s for you!

      Reply
    86. 86.

      tim

      February 17, 2021 at 4:26 pm

      Welcome to the Bad Place, Rush! Sean can’t wait to get some spiders up that butthole! Meanwhile, enjoy the penis-flattening! (I can explain if anyone doesn’t get it. I don’t mind, really. I’ve been saving this for months.)

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Patricia Kayden

      February 17, 2021 at 4:26 pm

      If you don’t think I would celebrate Rush dying, you don’t know me at all. Celebrate every bigots pain and death is my actual motto. Make people ashamed of being bigots.— Monjula Ray (@queerBengali) February 17, 2021

      Reply
    88. 88.

      AndyAxel

      February 17, 2021 at 4:27 pm

      @Royston Vasey: one would hope clarence watched as gabriel ran rush’s life reel, and said “i’ve waited this long, fuck it, i can get my wings on another assignment”

      Reply
    89. 89.

      SiubhanDuinne

      February 17, 2021 at 4:27 pm

      @Keith P.:

      Youre right. And he would have had flags lowered at every federal building across the country within an hour of the news.

      Reply
    90. 90.

      ellie

      February 17, 2021 at 4:28 pm

      Fuck Rush Limbaugh 1000%. I am glad he is dead.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      LuciaMia

      February 17, 2021 at 4:28 pm

      For all his supposed massive presence and influence , in a month will anybody think of him or even remember him?

      Sic transit gloria mundi

      Reply
    92. 92.

      M31

      February 17, 2021 at 4:28 pm

      and Rush remained a malevolent presence until the end — making the world worse, so that his death is actually a positive good

      even war criminal ghouls like Kissinger or fucking Newt aren’t doing nearly as much active, current harm

      Reply
    93. 93.

      Brachiator

      February 17, 2021 at 4:29 pm

      @Sis:

      I will never understand how people could be delighted by his brand of cruelty, even people I knew to be remarkably kind one-on-one.

      Saw it with Rush. See it with Trump. I cannot understand it, but some people get joy out of being given permission to indulge all their resentments and cruelties.

      Reply
    94. 94.

      Torrey

      February 17, 2021 at 4:29 pm

      @Lavocat:

      Also, may he be assfucked by Beelzebub with a barbed-wire dildo for all eternity.

      That’s a bit harsh. What did Beelzebub ever do to you?

      Reply
    95. 95.

      opiejeanne

      February 17, 2021 at 4:29 pm

      a thread from a friend:

      https://twitter.com/rakdaddy/status/1362090361569439745

      Ten minutes after he died, Rush Limbaugh woke up. He was confused, because he distinctly remembered taking one final, tortured breath in a room that did not look like the luxury suite he now found himself in.

      Reply
    96. 96.

      matt the semi-reasonable

      February 17, 2021 at 4:30 pm

      One of the worst people ever. People who are sad about him are pieces of shit themselves, guaranteed.

      Reply
    97. 97.

      Jeffro

      February 17, 2021 at 4:31 pm

      @MazeDancer: I saw Lowry’s thread and life on his planet must be really something.

      Reply
    98. 98.

      Ken

      February 17, 2021 at 4:32 pm

      Finally he’s done something worthy of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

      (That may be original, I haven’t seen anyone else use it.)

      Reply
    99. 99.

      xephyr

      February 17, 2021 at 4:33 pm

      The line to dance on his grave is going to stretch for miles…

      Reply
    100. 100.

      Geo Wilcox

      February 17, 2021 at 4:33 pm

      @opiejeanne:  That was beautiful.

      Reply
    101. 101.

      SiubhanDuinne

      February 17, 2021 at 4:34 pm

      @scav:

      magaphones

      Nice!

      Reply
    102. 102.

      Miss Bianca

      February 17, 2021 at 4:34 pm

      @tim: Heh. I got it.

      Reply
    103. 103.

      tim

      February 17, 2021 at 4:36 pm

      So many isms to choose from, after all these years, but my favorite, obviously, remains: “It’s the common cold, folks!”

      Reply
    104. 104.

      Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)

      February 17, 2021 at 4:36 pm

      I’d hoped the bastard would live to see Biden sworn in, and die of spontaneous combustion, but this is fine by me.

      And the Trump Plaza was imploded this morning. This calls for champagne.

      Reply
    105. 105.

      schrodingers_cat

      February 17, 2021 at 4:38 pm

      NYT and WashPost are pulling their punches about the gas bag.

      Reply
    106. 106.

      Jeffro

      February 17, 2021 at 4:39 pm

      @Boris Rasputin (the evil twin): This calls for champagne

      Now there’s an idea  ;)

      Reply
    107. 107.

      df

      February 17, 2021 at 4:41 pm

      Some people spread happiness wherever they go. Others, whenever.

      Reply
    108. 108.

      Shakti

      February 17, 2021 at 4:42 pm

      @Elie:  It is likely years of opoid abuse fucked up his nerve endings.   So unless he floated away on fentanyl, that last month absolutely sucked.

      Reply
    109. 109.

      lee

      February 17, 2021 at 4:42 pm

      I also listened to him for a bit (like a week or two). I figured out his shtick pretty quick.

      He would make all sorts of claims during his show. Often times he would contradict himself between one segment and the next. When inevitably one of them came true, he would crow to high heaven that he was right.

      I was significantly more conservative than I am now and even then I found him to be toxic.

      Reply
    110. 110.

      randy khan

      February 17, 2021 at 4:42 pm

      @AliceBlue: 

      OT, I also heard that every state in the country now has snow on the ground except Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

      I was about to say “What about Hawaii?” until I remembered the mountains. Wow.

      Reply
    111. 111.

      Roger Moore

      February 17, 2021 at 4:42 pm

      @Sis:

      I will never understand how people could be delighted by his brand of cruelty, even people I knew to be remarkably kind one-on-one.

      I think a lot of Conservatives are this way.  They have empathy but can’t apply it with any kind of imagination.  It only matters to them if it happens to them or someone they care about.  If it happens to someone they don’t know, they can easily ignore it.

      Reply
    112. 112.

      SiubhanDuinne

      February 17, 2021 at 4:43 pm

      @opiejeanne:

      Excellent read. Thank you!

      Reply
    113. 113.

      mrmoshpotato

      February 17, 2021 at 4:44 pm

      @Roger Moore: ​
       LOL! That’s so good!

      Reply
    114. 114.

      randy khan

      February 17, 2021 at 4:44 pm

      I will say what I said when Obama got Osama bin Laden:  Every death diminishes us, but some diminish a lot less than others.

      Reply
    115. 115.

      Splitting Image

      February 17, 2021 at 4:45 pm

      @opiejeanne:

      a thread from a friend:

      https://twitter.com/rakdaddy/status/1362090361569439745

      Ten minutes after he died, Rush Limbaugh woke up. He was confused, because he distinctly remembered taking one final, tortured breath in a room that did not look like the luxury suite he now found himself in.

      That gave me a nice warm feeling to read that. It’s only missing Rod’s summary at the end.

      Reply
    116. 116.

      Jeffery

      February 17, 2021 at 4:45 pm

      Paraphrasing Betty Davis:

      My mother always told me to speak good of the dead.

      Rush Limbaugh is dead.

      Good.

      Reply
    117. 117.

      prostratedragon

      February 17, 2021 at 4:48 pm

      RL was one of several people (others have been mentioned in this thread) that often had me thinking of this advent carol, sung here by Louis Armstrong. Note some of the most recent comments.

      Reply
    118. 118.

      Scuffletuffle

      February 17, 2021 at 4:50 pm

      Gonna buy some cigarettes on the way home for when I reread this post obsessively all evening…

      Reply
    119. 119.

      Marmot

      February 17, 2021 at 4:50 pm

      My first big memory featuring Limbaugh was a guy on campus beating his effigy and offering everyone else a go. Rodney King had just been beaten on TV, and Rush had been nasty. Of course.

      I was struck by just how *pissed off* the guy was. I’d never seen anything like it. Ranting, screaming, beating, and all of it citing primary sources and using solid arguments. He went on to read some Young Conservatives of Texas pamphlets about how we need a strong leader to follow, and how it’s too bad we don’t have a monarchy. He spat venom at it.

      I continued to think of myself as a Republican afterward, but not for very long. Soon the contradictions and cruelty made me want to scream too.

      Reply
    120. 120.

      Starboard Tack

      February 17, 2021 at 4:51 pm

      Reposted from below because I like the thought.

      Fire and brimstone’s too good for him. I hope he spends an eternity in a Universalist Unitarian discussion group, without the power of speech.

      Reply
    121. 121.

      zhena gogolia

      February 17, 2021 at 4:52 pm

      @germy:

      h/t Oscar Hammerstein, of course.

      Reply
    122. 122.

      tommyspoon

      February 17, 2021 at 4:57 pm

      He insulted a 12 year old girl for nothing more than ratings.

      May the level of Liars open up its ravenous maw to chew on him for all eternity.

      Reply
    123. 123.

      Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

      February 17, 2021 at 4:57 pm

      How does that old saw go? I’ve never wished death on anyone but have read some obituaries with great amusement

      Reply
    124. 124.

      Winston

      February 17, 2021 at 5:00 pm

      Welp, this certainly has to be a blow to the boys in the Dominican Republic. That is my rant for today. I hate lung cancer; I wish he had died some other way. It seems to dishonor the struggles of my wife and brother, in a way. But I’ll take it. The world was not in a better place with their deaths, but it is with him. Hate to say that. There is no equivalence, imo.

      Reply
    125. 125.

      Miss Bianca

      February 17, 2021 at 5:00 pm

      @df:

      Some people spread happiness wherever they go. Others, whenever.

      Just had to see that again.

      Reply
    126. 126.

      Richard

      February 17, 2021 at 5:01 pm

      @leeleeFL: He caused a lot of pain and suffering in my family. My parents worshipped him. They chose him over me and my brothers. He and Fux and friends destroyed my parents. I will never understand how that happened to them. They were good people until they got brainwashed. He should have died years ago. I truly hate him and all his ilk. He was a disgusting thing. It would have been better were he never born. If i am ever near his grave, i will go out of my way to piss on it. He doesn’t even deserve a grave.

      Reply
    127. 127.

      catclub

      February 17, 2021 at 5:01 pm

      @citizen dave: 

      I doubt it would too expensive for either one of them.

      Unfortunately, most of the people who accumulate lots of money cannot stand to have a non-income producing asset. That makes it too expensive.

      Reply
    128. 128.

      Sure Lurkalot

      February 17, 2021 at 5:02 pm

      Though I had heard of him, I never tuned into his show until 2010.  I had a RWNJ client who spent time in his studio painting while listening to Rush and he’d come into the office afterward ranting and raving Obama this, Obama that.  So I tuned in for a few minutes one day and found out that my client was indeed, a parrot.

      I got to catch wind of his Sandra Fluke rants in real time and that pretty much did it for me.  It wasn’t just the slut shaming but the incoherence…advocating for free birth control = being a whore who has so much sex that she has to pop birth control pills like candy.  I mean….what???  That and wondering what people thought of me if they saw me driving while listening to him.

      Reply
    129. 129.

      AndoChronic

      February 17, 2021 at 5:09 pm

      @Baud: Indeed. Originally I saw it with “social media” instead of talk radio.

      Reply
    130. 130.

      cope

      February 17, 2021 at 5:09 pm

      @Betty Cracker: Limbaugh was the first of the people on my short list of those whom I hope to outlive to go.  Next?

      Reply
    131. 131.

      zhena gogolia

      February 17, 2021 at 5:10 pm

      Slightly OT, Siubhan Diunne asked me what JL Cauvin was up to, and I hadn’t been paying attention lately, but he did a great rap battle between DJT and McConnell:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nZ6Desq7XM&feature=youtu.b

      And here’s his obit for Rush:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kECn-lzxkoA&feature=youtu.be

      Reply
    132. 132.

      VeniceRiley

      February 17, 2021 at 5:13 pm

      Donk Donk? Who’s there? https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1361988909836689414?s=21

      Reply
    133. 133.

      hitchhiker

      February 17, 2021 at 5:15 pm

      I was in a women’s studies class at the UW in Seattle in the mid-90s, and one of the (two) young men in that course had reached out to Rush with a tale of what went on there.

      Rush had a great time with those stories, and I’m sure his listeners did, too. My older brothers all worked as house painters in those years, in a rural/tourist town in northern lower Michigan. They didn’t have many options when it came to radio, and Rush must have seemed like radical fun to them especially compared to the usual local drivel.

      I remember asking my favorite brother once why he liked Rush, and he said, “He’s funny.” I said, “But you know he’s just making stuff up, right? Like, the things he’s talking about aren’t true?”

      He just shrugged.

      It seems a little quaint these days to remember that it used to be shocking when national personalities would just flat lie for the fun of it, or the money that was in it. I guess Rush gets credit for launching that trend.

      I really hope he suffered.

      Reply
    134. 134.

      A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

      February 17, 2021 at 5:19 pm

      @Richard: I know.  Eventually, evil people die, but for many, like RL, it is way later than it should be. I guess that’s what they mean by “only the good die young”.  Although he was 70 (the same age as me), so he was still young ;-

      ETA: and a lot of them are STILL alive (Kissinger, Newt, Vice, Trump, etc.)

      Reply
    135. 135.

      opiejeanne

      February 17, 2021 at 5:27 pm

      @Splitting Image:  He just added the requested comment from Rod:

      Adam Rakunas is still tired but slightly hopeful.

      @rakdaddy

      ·
      1m

      Replying to
      @opiejeanne

      Heed the warning you’ve just seen, because it may be your fate if you willingly walk down the trail blazed by Mr. Limbaugh. He built his eternal reward brick by brick, lie by lie, hated upon hatred. File it under J for Justice in the endless corridors of the Twilight Zone.

      Reply
    136. 136.

      SiubhanDuinne

      February 17, 2021 at 5:28 pm

      @zhena gogolia:

      The rap battle is wonderful — he does a great McConnell!

      Reply
    137. 137.

      zhena gogolia

      February 17, 2021 at 5:29 pm

      @SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, the concept of Mitch rapping is funny all by itself.

      Reply
    138. 138.

      Enhanced Voting Techniques

      February 17, 2021 at 5:29 pm

      @James E Powell: One place I worked we had “Chuckle Head” who was an avid fan of Rush, would interrupt meetings with management to listen to Rush top of the hour mini sermons. They had a lay off just for Chuckle Head to get rid of him.

      Reply
    139. 139.

      Craig

      February 17, 2021 at 5:29 pm

      @Betty Cracker: well played, as usual.

      Reply
    140. 140.

      Skepticat

      February 17, 2021 at 5:30 pm

      A friend once had an absolutely terrible boss. She used to say, “It isn’t that I wish bad things for him, but if his being dead is what it takes to get rid of him, then so be it.” Apropos at the moment.

      Reply
    141. 141.

      debbie

      February 17, 2021 at 5:30 pm

      I’d like to think there was a deathbed repentance, but hell, I’m happy he’s gone.

      Reply
    142. 142.

      louc

      February 17, 2021 at 5:31 pm

      @AliceBlue: OT, I also heard that every state in the country now has snow on the ground except Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

      District of Columbia doesn’t. But I guess we’re not a state.

      I’ve liked some of the 19th century-esque comments like “may he receive in death all the grace, generosity of spirit and dignity he showed others in life” or “I refrain from both comment and sorrow.”

      Reply
    143. 143.

      Jay

      February 17, 2021 at 5:34 pm

      INCREDIBLE: A newly filed affidavit against a Capitol rioter shows that this man, Daniel Egtvedt, fought with an entire room full of police, was kicked out, returned, fought/injured police again, left, returned, fought with police again and still wasn't arrested that day. pic.twitter.com/UdkgwylkYi— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) February 17, 2021

      Reply
    144. 144.

      Baquist

      February 17, 2021 at 5:37 pm

      I don’t believe in hell, but I’m willing to entertain the idea for this fucking gasbag. Oh, and Trump.

      I hope he suffered greatly in his last months.

      Reply
    145. 145.

      debbie

      February 17, 2021 at 5:38 pm

      @Jay:

      To be fair, the CP didn’t have a lot of time to be arresting anyone.

      Reply
    146. 146.

      Geoduck

      February 17, 2021 at 5:41 pm

      @Enhanced Voting Techniques: “Rest In Piss”

      (Not mine, saw it elsewhere online.)

      Reply
    147. 147.

      Roger Moore

      February 17, 2021 at 5:41 pm

      @Sure Lurkalot:

      My impression is that the Sandra Fluke thing was largely based on the ignorant belief that birth control pills are like condoms: something that you use when and only when you have sex.  So if you need help paying for them, it’s a sign you must be having lots and lots of sex.  Of course, branding women as sluts is just a standard part of the shtick.

      Reply
    148. 148.

      Nora Lenderbee

      February 17, 2021 at 5:42 pm

      Pissing on his grave is a great idea, but would you mind waiting until we’ve finished dancing on it? I’d rather not ruin a pair of shoes.

      Reply
    149. 149.

      coin operated

      February 17, 2021 at 5:43 pm

      Breaking out the good rye in celebration tonight

      Reply
    150. 150.

      LongHairedWeirdo

      February 17, 2021 at 5:43 pm

      The biggest reason I despised Limbaugh’s commentary was, he always played the “I’m just an entertainer!” card. Like, if you spend your entire profession trying to get people to distrust and hate their family, friends, and neighbors who don’t buy into the bullshit, it’s *okay* if you’re just trying to make a buck.

      No, that actually makes it a bit more evil. Someone who actually cares can realize they were wrong; someone who doesn’t care will probably never have a “come to Jesus moment”.

      Was there ever a time when he said that something that Republicans wanted was wrong, no matter how obviously wrong, misguided, or outright evil it was? If so, I never heard of it, and even if I had, I wouldn’t have trusted it.

      Reply
    151. 151.

      Gravenstone

      February 17, 2021 at 5:43 pm

      @sab: Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke.

      Reply
    152. 152.

      Dan B

      February 17, 2021 at 5:45 pm

      @MomSense: Rush musta just loooved when Roy Cohn croaked.  Such a sucking hole of needing to feel superior.  Dud it originate in his family like Turnip’s ruthless father?

      Reply
    153. 153.

      Sister Golden Bear

      February 17, 2021 at 5:45 pm

      I’ll show Rush as much respect as he did to people with AIDS in the ’80s, when he regularly did an “AIDS update,” reading the names of the dead as a comedy bit, which he introduced by playing “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” by Dionne Warwick (who was an early and outspoken AIDS activist).

      Reply
    154. 154.

      Mary G

      February 17, 2021 at 5:46 pm

      Devastated. I’m just devastated that Rush Limbaugh is no more. Not since Father Coughlin departed the airwaves has American broadcasting and political culture suffered the same kind of loss and there just isn’t enough snide or sarcasm in the known universe to continue this tweet.— David Simon (@AoDespair) February 17, 2021

      Reply
    155. 155.

      Humanities Prof

      February 17, 2021 at 5:48 pm

      @pluky: HP’s wife here. My dad died of metastatic lung cancer. I made sure there was no suffering.

       

      Thankfully, hospice was perfectly happy to give me large amounts of IV morphine to help (he had a home IV line). He probably technically died of an overdose, but he did not suffer. And I feel zero remorse.

      But I’m praying to Athena that Rush fucking Limbaugh didn’t have that.

      #ProudFeminazi   I had that on a dry-erase board on my dorm room’s door in the 1990s…

      Reply
    156. 156.

      West of the Rockies

      February 17, 2021 at 5:52 pm

      Two weeks and a day ago he was still on the air, spewing venom and shit.  That’s how he chose to spend his last healthful days.

      Now he’s gone.

      Excellent, Smithers.

      Reply
    157. 157.

      Ceci n est pas mon nym

      February 17, 2021 at 5:54 pm

      @AliceBlue: OT, I also heard that every state in the country now has snow on the ground except Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

      Not yet in southeast PA, unless you count the last bit of stuff that hasn’t melted from the last storm. But we’re expecting more tomorrow.

      Reply
    158. 158.

      Almost Retired

      February 17, 2021 at 5:59 pm

      He is an evil, vile person and I am glad he is dead.  The world is a marginally better place without him.  Does that make me a bad person for feeling this way?  No, it does not.  Bad people ignore the sins of the wicked by insisting on a respectful eulogy for the dead.  There should be no rehabilitation in ceasing to breathe.  Fuck him.

      Reply
    159. 159.

      germy

      February 17, 2021 at 5:59 pm

      Liberals who didn’t listen to Rush, and just read the Media Matters accounts, never understood how *funny* he was. What set him off from his many imitators was how wildly entertaining he was, and the absolutely unbreakable bond he formed with his listeners.

      — Rich Lowry (@RichLowry) February 17, 2021

      People who only read “Helter Skelter” never understood what a what a singer-songwriter Charlie Manson was. What set him off from his many imitators was how wildly entertaining he was, and the absolutely unbreakable bond he formed with his followers. https://t.co/r98f16BjFD

      — Philip Klinkner (@pklinkne) February 17, 2021

      Reply
    160. 160.

      Geoduck

      February 17, 2021 at 6:01 pm

      @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Some of us live in states with mountains tall enough to (almost) always have snow on them..

      Reply
    161. 161.

      Dan B

      February 17, 2021 at 6:02 pm

      @Brachiator: My partner’s brother has that brand of humor based in sadism.  He delights in poking fun at everything but his own failings.  We ignore it as a leftover of not growing out of Junior High and its immature power plays.  My partner keeps hinting at visiting them.  If I do ever go, not likely, I am prepared to call out his need for psychiatric evaluation and how much I look forward to his sincere apology for his comments that are barbs concealed by brittle laughter.

       

      Won’t score points with them or my partner, despite the fact he doesn’t trust his brother in any way.  There’s a consistent line linking a large cohort of well off white men who laugh at the suffering of others.  Their delight at being able to harass people who have little power to fight back is evidence they are less civilized than Chimpanzees.  And less self aware.

      Reply
    162. 162.

      different-church-lady

      February 17, 2021 at 6:02 pm

      The biggest lie the hippies ever told was that everyone had worth.

      Reply
    163. 163.

      pat

      February 17, 2021 at 6:04 pm

      @germy:

      Rush, funny?  I couldn’t listen to him for more than 30 seconds  Funny he was not.  Hateful, nasty, mean, yes, but funny?

      Hmm maybe there were some who laughed at hangings….

      Reply
    164. 164.

      Gravenstone

      February 17, 2021 at 6:05 pm

      @Wyatt Salamanca: See what he does that is so appealing to his listeners.

      Stoking grievances. That’s the only thing that pustulent waste of protoplasm was ever good at. Not exactly something that anyone who was actually for a progressive agenda would or should seek to emulate. So fuck right the fuck off Mr. Stelter!

      Reply
    165. 165.

      Jake Gibson

      February 17, 2021 at 6:06 pm

      @Wyatt Salamanc

      I’m not sure anything can be learned from reinforcing people’s worst qualities.

      Reply
    166. 166.

      grumbles

      February 17, 2021 at 6:11 pm

      Just another dead doper, and a dirt bag.

      Reply
    167. 167.

      Jim, Foolish Literalist

      February 17, 2021 at 6:11 pm

      @germy:

      Liberals who didn’t listen to Rush, and just read the Media Matters accounts, never understood how *funny* he was. What set him off from his many imitators was how wildly entertaining he was,

      @Sister Golden Bear: I’ll show Rush as much respect as he did to people with AIDS in the ’80s, when he regularly did an “AIDS update,” reading the names of the dead as a comedy bit, which he introduced by playing “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” by Dionne Warwick (who was an early and outspoken AIDS activist).

      If I were a big deal blue check, I’d put these two observations together in one tweet and pin it. But Dickie Lowry an his ilk would probably see it as further proof that liberals have no sense of humor.

      Reply
    168. 168.

      Baud

      February 17, 2021 at 6:15 pm

      @germy:

      @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

      Many of the comments trashing Rush atr pretty funny.  I guess we’re good then.

      Reply
    169. 169.

      Gravenstone

      February 17, 2021 at 6:17 pm

      @citizen dave: yup, karma came for Rush’s ass repeatedly. Deafened by chronic opiate abuse even as denigrated addiction and addicts in general. Developed lung cancer after decades of denial of the toxic effects of tobacco. Fired immediately by ESPN (his dream gig) because he couldn’t keep his racism in check for even a handful of hours at a time. And now he gets to make his sole positive contribution to the world at large, dying.

      Reply
    170. 170.

      Baud

      February 17, 2021 at 6:19 pm

      @Baud: 

      atr= are

      Reply
    171. 171.

      Mike in NC

      February 17, 2021 at 6:19 pm

      I see that the wingnuts on Twitter are absolutely rending their garments over the demise of this sick puppy.

      Reply
    172. 172.

      Gravenstone

      February 17, 2021 at 6:20 pm

      @Sis: It probably made him even more vicious. Railing at the perceived inequity and injustice of him actually getting a life threatening illness.

      Reply
    173. 173.

      Ivan X

      February 17, 2021 at 6:20 pm

      @gvg: Very true about women. All these years later after I heard him, I still remember him describing women being unhappy about something as akin to cats screeching. I can’t remember the exact wording, thankfully, but even when I was young I knew it was an obviously hateful, sexist thing to say, and I couldn’t believe that someone would say it on public airwaves.

      Reply
    174. 174.

      WereBear

      February 17, 2021 at 6:22 pm

      I remember when people in the office I worked in at the time were all “He’s funny!” and I was appalled.

      I thought they were nice, until then.

      As for Rush, the thing I’ll remember most — since I never listened to him for more than clips and such — was a piece actually shared here. One of those personality profile things.

      He had something like 300 scented candles throughout his mansion, and his butler had to go around and light every one before he got home from the studio. And I thought, To cover the stench of his rotting soul.

      Reply
    175. 175.

      Uncle Cosmo

      February 17, 2021 at 6:23 pm

      @Sis: I had honestly wondered if a terminal illness would cause him to reassess his life and decide to be kinder during the time he had left. I should have known better. He remained vicious and rotten all the way to the end. ​

      What does it say to the world at large that someone with the despicable past of a Lee Atwater became a far better human being in the course of his final illness than Rush Limbaugh managed, even though the latter had 30 years more to manage it in?​

      Reply
    176. 176.

      Jay

      February 17, 2021 at 6:23 pm

      Scoop: @DHSgov confirmed to me that it used to employ Rinaldo Nazzaro who is the leader and founder of the Base, the same type of domestic terrorist group it sees as a national security threat. The Base is also already under an intense FBI crackdown. https://t.co/dRlDFdGpDx— Ben Makuch (@BMakuch) February 17, 2021

      Reply
    177. 177.

      Citizen Alan

      February 17, 2021 at 6:26 pm

      @germy: ​
       

      IOW, the editor of America’s most prestigious magazine for white supremacists found Limbaugh amusing. Funny that.

      Reply
    178. 178.

      Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

      February 17, 2021 at 6:31 pm

      Gonna post and then read the comments.

      He was a hideous, miserable, overfed gasbag, and even if the only things that he left us are 1) alone and 2) more oxygen, worth it. But he left us so much more than that.

      We are more united against the forces of evil that Flush and his ilk represent than we’ve been in a minute. Think 🤔 on that if you will. 

      Reply
    179. 179.

      Arclite

      February 17, 2021 at 6:40 pm

      Can I dance on his grave? I’m dancing.

      No one single person has done more damage to the political comity of this nation than Rush Limbaugh. R.I.H.

      Reply
    180. 180.

      hueyplong

      February 17, 2021 at 7:20 pm

      Repeating a paraphrasing of a call and response from LGM earlier today:

      Burn, Rush, burn
      Crisco inferno

      Reply
    181. 181.

      The Lodger

      February 17, 2021 at 7:24 pm

      Unfortunately he couldn’t spend his final minutes in the Trump Plaza penthouse.

      Reply
    182. 182.

      WV Blondie

      February 17, 2021 at 7:25 pm

      Celebrating the gasbag’s passing serves as a dress rehearsal for how I’ll PAR-TAY when the Orange Slime god kicks the bucket.

      Reply
    183. 183.

      Tim in SF

      February 17, 2021 at 7:42 pm

      Rush is hurtling straight to hell in a flaming toboggan. Every devil in Hell has just put their pokers in the fire. I’m an atheist, too, but on days like this, I take a break from my atheism. I allow a certain suspension of disbelief to take over for the duration. It’s the same as when I sit down to watch a sci fi or fantasy movie.

      Let’s remember that back in the eighties, Rush had this great recurring comedy bit where he’d read off the names of people who had died of AIDS while Dionne Warwick sang “I’ll Never Love This Way Again.” This went on and on while I friends in hospitals breathing their last. The only reason I didn’t start drinking champagne when I heard he croaked is because it was 10AM when I heard the news.

      I’m glad Limbaugh lived juuuuuuust long enough to see TRUMP LOSE.

      Reply
    184. 184.

      Ryan

      February 17, 2021 at 7:54 pm

      Thanks Joe!

      Reply
    185. 185.

      Ryan

      February 17, 2021 at 7:56 pm

      @Tim in SF: ​

      @Tim in SF: ​
       

      Say, how long do you suppose it takes to travel to hell? Not having thought of it, I figured it was instantaneous. But it’s make more sense if it was a journey of some sort.

      Reply
    186. 186.

      df

      February 17, 2021 at 8:10 pm

      @Ryan: Guess it depends on whether or not God (or similar entity) basically does the life version of meeting with your accountant. I’m a devout atheist, but I like to think God would just send you there instantaneously, like “figure it out, you don’t get an explanation after being a dick for 30+ years”.

      Reply
    187. 187.

      df

      February 17, 2021 at 8:12 pm

      @Miss Bianca: Isn’t it great? Alas, I should’ve attributed the quote. Internet says it was Oscar Wilde, but I’m pretty sure most of the things people said he said, he never actually said. But I’m lazy and dinner is almost here, so I’m going to just assume it was him. :)

      Reply
    188. 188.

      The Golux

      February 17, 2021 at 8:17 pm

      Someone mentioned that they were astonished that he was only 70.  I was flabbergasted when Johnny Cash died at 70; he looked 85 at minimum.  Then again, Roy Orbison at 53?????

      Reply
    189. 189.

      daverave

      February 17, 2021 at 8:26 pm

      Has there been any speculation yet who will be the first Republican or enabler to propose that ole Rush lay in state in the Capitol Building? You know, the one that he helped inspire the insurrection within?

      Reply
    190. 190.

      Jeffro

      February 17, 2021 at 9:11 pm

      @coin operated:Breaking out the good rye in celebration tonight

      Cheers!

      Mrs. Fro was like, “dinner smells great!  Also, why is there an open bottle of champagne on the counter?”

      She joined me in .5 seconds once I told her

      Reply
    191. 191.

      Jeffro

      February 17, 2021 at 9:12 pm

      @germy: that’s just fucking excellent

      Reply
    192. 192.

      burnspbesq

      February 17, 2021 at 9:26 pm

      Rush gave millions of vile people permission to be who they were.

      Good riddance.

      Reply
    193. 193.

      SWMBO

      February 17, 2021 at 9:38 pm

      @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): Mitch McConnell would like a word…

      Reply
    194. 194.

      Suzanne

      February 17, 2021 at 9:52 pm

      It isn’t kind to speak ill of the dead.
      So I’ll type ill of him instead.

      He was a Cleveland Steamer on this country, and he just got flushed. BYE FUCKER.

      Reply
    195. 195.

      jonas

      February 17, 2021 at 10:10 pm

      Limbaugh’s passing has left an indelible, chunky skid mark on American life and politics. Limbaugh didn’t just coarsen political discourse in America; he made it fundamentally unserious. It was no longer about debating philosophical differences or policy preferences, but about trolling. About seeing who could make the meanest, nastiest joke at the expense of someone vulnerable. About equating citizenship and liberty with flipping the bird and screaming at someone asking them to wear a mask that “you’re not the boss of me!”

      He fostered a generation of (mostly) man-children who think they’re reincarnations of John Wayne, but are actually a bunch of insecure, WATB who think the height of cleverness is a pair of Truk Nutz and making a crude joke about AOC to pwn the libs. In other words, Trump voters.

      Reply
    196. 196.

      Darby'sMom

      February 17, 2021 at 10:19 pm

      Relieved to say here what I can’t say in real life. F*ck that SOB for all the crap he spewed. I wish I believed in hell. (Thank you … I feel better now)

      Reply
    197. 197.

      Noah Brand

      February 17, 2021 at 11:04 pm

      I remember a joke that went around in the ’90s. Seems a guy’s looking to buy a new car, and the salesman tells him this model has the latest safety feature. No more distraction fiddling with the radio, you just say aloud what you want to hear, and the system finds a station with the best match.

      Dubious, the guy turns on the radio and says “Uh… Willie Nelson?”

      *click* Goes right to the classic country station.

      “Wow! Um… N.W.A.!”

      *click* Turns to the rap station.

      Dude is amazed. “…son of a bitch!” he says.

      *click* “Hi, folks, you’re listening to the Rush Limbaugh Show…”

      Reply
    198. 198.

      chrisanthemama

      February 17, 2021 at 11:31 pm

      “To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.”–Voltaire

      Reply
    199. 199.

      Roland Stone

      February 18, 2021 at 12:19 am

      @Wyatt Salamanca: quotes Stelter:

      “Sometimes liberals would say to me ‘Rush Limbaugh, he’s a damaging force in the United States, he must be stopped,’ and my reaction in those conversations would be to say learn from him.”

      “Sometimes Hutus would say to me ‘ Radio Télévision des Milles Collines , it’s a damaging force in Rwanda, it must be stopped,’ and my reaction in those conversations would be to say learn from it.”

      Reply
    200. 200.

      Bonnie

      February 18, 2021 at 12:41 am

      Rush is in hell preparing every one for Trump’s arrival.

      Reply
    201. 201.

      Bruce K in ATH-GR

      February 18, 2021 at 2:54 am

      My thought on learning of the passing of this version of America’s Goebbels was that it’ll take generations to repair the damage he caused to America, and the rot is still spreading because of the fascists he inspired.

      He may yet destroy America from beyond the grave.

      I hope that soon he, Andrew Breitbart, Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump can get together for a round of bridge.

      I’ve decided that I’ll try to never use his name again. He, more than Trump, deserves damnatio memoriae.

      Reply
    202. 202.

      Expatchad

      February 18, 2021 at 4:37 am

      @pacem appellant: IN AETERNAM  …SEMPITERNAM!

      Reply
    203. 203.

      Pete Mack

      February 18, 2021 at 4:56 am

      One positive effect of “Everything Trump touches dies.”

      Reply
    204. 204.

      Morzer

      February 18, 2021 at 5:35 am

      Limbaugh was a racist, a homophobe, a misogynist, a seditionist, a drug-addict, a pathological liar and a sexual abuser. He’s dead and my only regret is that it didn’t happen sooner.

      Reply
    205. 205.

      Uncle Cosmo

      February 18, 2021 at 6:30 am

      @Noah Brand: I am so repurposing that for Hannity…

      (You know the difference between a hand sanitizer and a Sean Hannitizer? You put the one one to get very clean; you turn the other one on to feel very, very dirty.)

      Reply
    206. 206.

      wkiernan

      February 18, 2021 at 12:22 pm

      He’s finally shut up.

      Better late than never, I guess. But it would have been far better if he’d ODed and died back in ’06.

      Reply
    207. 207.

      J R in WV

      February 18, 2021 at 9:50 pm

      @pat: ​
       

      Rush, funny? I couldn’t listen to him for more than 30 seconds Funny he was not. Hateful, nasty, mean, yes, but funny?

      Hmm maybe there were some who laughed at hangings….

      I’ve seen old black and white photos taken at Jim Crow lynchings, and there were many people smiling and grinning, as if they were at a church BBQ picnic.

      Amazing, that apparent happiness at a scene of wild, illegal murder, glee at the strange fruit.

      Horrible to see, actually.

      People in their Sunday finest, out for a walk in the country, to the hangin’ tree just outside town. Some history books have the most horrible details about the recent past~!~

      Reply
    208. 208.

      Richard

      February 19, 2021 at 1:40 am

      @hitchhiker: 
      We have so many intelligent young people in our neck of the woods. They never get to hear anything outside of television or church.
      I feel sorry for those boys. Probably that Limbaugh fool was the only thing they had. Probably they were hungry. Maybe they thought he was an intellectual.
      I’m not making excuses.

      Reply
    209. 209.

      r€nato

      February 21, 2021 at 1:44 pm

      @citizen dave:

      Rush Limbaugh when Clinton was president: bellowed “CHARACTER MATTERS!!!!” several times every fiucking day

      Rush Limbaugh when Trump was president: *crickets chirping

      Reply

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