Rush Limbaugh death pool?

[ronburgundy]

Funny how those who hate him can't seem to stop talking about him. If you knew anything about him you would know that was his intention from the get go. His detractors propelled him.

Fiends, Romans, and countrymen….we come to bury Limbaugh not praise him. So to speak.

It was the hate and bigotry of all his fans and the Republican base that propelled his career. The fact that he took glee in others pointing out his immorality isn't a reason not to point out his immorality. He was a cancer and the disease he spread is alive and well and rules the GOP and is the very soul of the alt-right and Trump movements. Thus, it makes sense to talk about him and to shun any notions that one should not celebrate his death any more than one shouldn't celebrate the removal of a tumor.

Propaganda 101, create an enemy and a threat. Then motivate support against the imagined threat. The comparison would be more to Joseph Goebels Hitler's propaganda minister. He made good use of the then new radio medium. In the USA Macarthy.

When FOX began attacking's CNN and specific people CNN allowed itself to be pulled down responding in kind. Fodder for Limbaugh. The evil mainstream media is out to get you.

What is protecting us s far is an unrestricted press that can counter the likes of Limbaugh.

I agree with all that, which makes your prior observation particularly odd that you think its "funny" that people who hated him are talking about him so much. The hate for him is rooted in his immense negative impact on things people care about. People talk about the things they care about and those that harm those things. It would only be odd if Rush was being talked about by people who were completely disinterested in any aspect of society that he influenced.

 

[steve_bank]

Propaganda 101, create an enemy and a threat. Then motivate support against the imagined threat. The comparison would be more to Joseph Goebels Hitler's propaganda minister. He made good use of the then new radio medium. In the USA Macarthy.

When FOX began attacking's CNN and specific people CNN allowed itself to be pulled down responding in kind. Fodder for Limbaugh. The evil mainstream media is out to get you.

What is protecting us s far is an unrestricted press that can counter the likes of Limbaugh.

I agree with all that, which makes your prior observation particularly odd that you think its "funny" that people who hated him are talking about him so much. The hate for him is rooted in his immense negative impact on things people care about. People talk about the things they care about and those that harm those things. It would only be odd if Rush was being talked about by people who were completely disinterested in any aspect of society that he influenced.

Sarcasm.People, along with the mighty self righteous CNN, fell into the FOX/Trump/Limbaugh narrative, hook, line, and sinker. Trump continually baited CNN and they fell for it every day..

Trump is a horrible businessman with a string of failures and a horribly incompetent leader. Both he and Limbaugh are expert con artists. Showmen in the ilk of PT Barnum. Limbaugh foundhje could make a lot of money hawking conservatism and stoling the faithful.

Back when I had a long commute I'd go back and forth between conservative and progressive radio.

Different sides but the same techniques and tactics. There was a Limbaugh counterpart on progressive that got suspended after compliant of his incessant labeling of individual conservatives as Nazis.

I look at it lie TV wresting. Theater of adversaries who know they booth profit from a contrived conflict.

 

[TomC]

. Different sides but the same techniques and tactics. There was a Limbaugh counterpart on progressive that got suspended after compliant of his incessant labeling of individual conservatives as Nazis.

I'm curious who this progressive talk radio host was.
I pay next to no attention to such radio, so I honestly have no idea who you are referring to. Who could possibly be a progressive counterpart to Limbaugh? Maybe there is somebody with Limbaugh's payscale and listener base and clout in Washington DC. But I cannot imagine who that is.

So, I'm asking you. Flat out. Who is this "Limbaugh counterpart" on progressive radio?

Tom

 

[ronburgundy]

Back when I had a long commute I'd go back and forth between conservative and progressive radio.

Different sides but the same techniques and tactics. There was a Limbaugh counterpart on progressive that got suspended after compliant of his incessant labeling of individual conservatives as Nazis.

False equivalence Actually trying to incite people to hate others and take away their rights for their innate qualities and private sexual behaviors is not "the same tactics" as merely exaggerating by calling those people who try to incite bigotry and eliminate civil rights "Nazis". IOW, Rush was far far more immoral and destructive than those who exaggerated his extreme immorality by calling him a Nazi.

I look at it lie TV wresting. Theater of adversaries who know they booth profit from a contrived conflict.

Except that "Pro" wrestlers aren't deliberately trying to incite violent bigotry that harms people, costs lives, and destabilizes civil society. Rush was NOT an entertainer just b/c he got paid to promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, and most other bigotries. Getting paid to do it, does nothing to reduce the immorality of it, and if anything makes it far more immoral.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I have heard of him but have never heard him. Seems a controversial figure.

I'm amazed to hear of an English speaking North American who has never heard Rush Limbaugh.

I realize it's possible. But, dayum!

It's like somebody telling me they'd never seen Madonna.


How did you manage this feat? There's a ton of entertainment figures I'd prefer to avoid. But I'm not good enough at the internetz to remain that clean.
Tom

Well, I have never deliberately heard him. Three? times (it's been quite a while), however, out between cities the seek button on the radio found him. I didn't recognize his voice, every time I heard deliberately and horrendously deceptive information before I figured out what the radio had found.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Rush Limbaugh was a vile fucking cunt.

Quit insulting cunts.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

meh, rush should have died as the result of fire

No. His death should have been useful--Covid.

 

[bilby]

meh, rush should have died as the result of fire

No. His death should have been useful--Covid.

I see no reason why he couldn't have both had COVID and then been set on fire.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Hey, a virus is a semi-living thing, and as such it deserves the respect you would give to...I don't know, a pollen cell. Half of a double helix. Adam's DNA. People for the Ethical Treatment of Semi-Living Things object to such cavalier notions as forcing something to exist inside Rush Limbaugh. If you must theorize toxic environments for genetic feasibility experiments, try the sump pit at Chernobyl or a pile of sumo diapers thrown on a stack of burning tires. You don't want to know the mutant strain of covid you'd get if it festered inside Rush.

 

[steve_bank]

Be careful lest the ACLU defends the rights of a virus to live and not be subjected to a human genocide.

 

[steve_bank]

Back when I had a long commute I'd go back and forth between conservative and progressive radio.

Different sides but the same techniques and tactics. There was a Limbaugh counterpart on progressive that got suspended after compliant of his incessant labeling of individual conservatives as Nazis.

False equivalence Actually trying to incite people to hate others and take away their rights for their innate qualities and private sexual behaviors is not "the same tactics" as merely exaggerating by calling those people who try to incite bigotry and eliminate civil rights "Nazis". IOW, Rush was far far more immoral and destructive than those who exaggerated his extreme immorality by calling him a Nazi.

I look at it lie TV wresting. Theater of adversaries who know they booth profit from a contrived conflict.

Except that "Pro" wrestlers aren't deliberately trying to incite violent bigotry that harms people, costs lives, and destabilizes civil society. Rush was NOT an entertainer just b/c he got paid to promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, and most other bigotries. Getting paid to do it, does nothing to reduce the immorality of it, and if anything makes it far more immoral.

Trump, Limbaugh, FOX, an the left as well play to the same basic human emotions as does pro wrestling. That was the point.

Jesse Ventura during hs time as Governor, an ex wrestler, made the comparison of politics to wrestling. Scripted theater. Membererof congress go on TV in the jacket and tie uniform with flags in the background and deliver scripted sound bites.Left and right media deliver canned narratives.

The common term is political theater.
Consider that Limbaugh is affecting your thinking even when dead.

 

[bilby]

Consider that Limbaugh is affecting your thinking even when dead.

When the limit of the effect is people thinking "Thank fuck that cunt is finally dead", I am unsure that it's really worthy of much consideration.

Certainly you shouldn't mistake glee at the fucker's demise for giving him any kind of posthumous importance.

 

[lpetrich]

Lauren Boebert on Twitter: "I'm calling on Joe Biden to order flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of Rush Limbaugh." / Twitter
then
Donna Imam on Twitter: "" / Twitter

 

[ZiprHead]

Lauren Boebert on Twitter: "I'm calling on Joe Biden to order flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of Rush Limbaugh." / Twitter
then
Donna Imam on Twitter: "??????" / Twitter

 

[Loren Pechtel]

meh, rush should have died as the result of fire

No. His death should have been useful--Covid.

I see no reason why he couldn't have both had COVID and then been set on fire.

When a high profile denier dies of Covid it will change some minds and thus save lives.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Be careful lest the ACLU defends the rights of a virus to live and not be subjected to a human genocide.

There's no way we would genocide Covid. Samples are kept around for the researchers.

 

[Jarhyn]

Be careful lest the ACLU defends the rights of a virus to live and not be subjected to a human genocide.

There's no way we would genocide Covid. Samples are kept around for the researchers.

Not to mention the bats

 

[Gospel]

I see no reason why he couldn't have both had COVID and then been set on fire.

When a high profile denier dies of Covid it will change some minds and thus save lives.

One high profile denier? I thought they were waiting for the American death toll to overtake the Vietnam war.

WWI: 1 year 116,516 (Overtook)
WWII: 4 years 405,399 (Pending)
Vietnam War: 20 years 58,209 (Pending)
Total: 580,124

Covid 19: 498,901

EDIT: Meant to put pending on WWII

 

[lpetrich]

One high profile denier? I thought they were waiting for the American death toll to overtake the Vietnam war.

(numbers snipped for brevity)

U.S. reaches 500,000 deaths from the coronavirus - "The number of dead rivals the populations of Atlanta or Sacramento, California." - that's for the cities proper, not including their suburbs. Their metro-area populations are 6 million and 2.5 million, respectively.

Notes 28,222,180 confirmed cases, 501,091 deaths

The video has a table:

Date	Deaths
2020 May	100,000
2020 Sep	200,000
2020 Dec	300,000
2021 Jan	400,000
2021 Feb	500,000

United States Coronavirus: 28,769,345 Cases and 511,320 Deaths - Worldometer

Counting suburbs, one has to go way down in  List of metropolitan statistical areas to #109: the Lexington CA metro area, at 517,056, and #110, the Pensacola FL metro area, at 502,629 (2019 estimates).

 

[Gospel]

That one high profile denier needs to hurry up and die.