Rush Limbaugh has advanced lung cancer

[Brian63]

https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/1224423240988229632

Rick Wilson
@TheRickWilson

I just heard the news that Rush Limbaugh has advanced lung cancer.

I’m going to show you how this should be done:

I wish Rush a speedy and complete recovery from his cancer.

Human being pro-tip: don’t wish cancer on *anyone*...even on your adversaries.



I will admit to having mixed feelings. The world would have been a better place without him, and will be a better place without him. Still the method used is not one you want someone else to be inflicted with. That is not the way to go.

 

[ZiprHead]

I've never wished a man dead, but I've read some obituaries with great pleasure. - Mark Twain

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

There are easily three dozen people in this world, and of which the world would be made better if they were hit by a bus. - Jimmy Higgins

I’m not sorry, the man himself is a cancer.

 

[ZiprHead]

"I don't care. Do you?"

 

[krypton iodine sulfur]

I wish Rush a speedy and complete recovery from his cancer.

I find that tweet more interesting than the story.

What I wish is immaterial to his health. I don't feel a need to put on a show of sympathy. That is not to suggest the author of the tweet is being insincere, but I would be lying to say I wished anything regarding his wellbeing one way or the other. I don't know the man. I don't like the way he has chosen to wield influence, but am uninvested in his life itself. All that remains is general sentiments regarding cancer, disease and human suffering. Would that we lived in a world where no one had to suffer or watch their loved ones suffer in such a way. But people do suffer from it. They die. Celebrity provides no exemption. In many cases people deal with little fanfare--I feel like any sentiments I direct toward Rush are more of a statement on celebrity than what I think of the man himself.

 

[Brian63]

Back as a young kid, he was/is one of my first lessons in how a person can sound extremely powerful in their rhetoric and sound very compelling and persuasive, all the while being full of bullshit. How to speak well and how to think well are 2 very different skills to have.

 

[Politesse]

Not happy he's dying, but there is a certain balance to it. Consequence of a perverted throat chakra. He used his voice to harm, so now it is killing him. He certainly did not believe in vocal pity for the ailing, so I wouldn't want to offend him by offering it too effusively.

Also, habitual cigar smoker who frequently promoted said habit to his fans. It is sad when someone dies, but the manner of his death is appropriate as a consequence of his many poor decisions as a public speaker. Of course, I know him only in that role. His private life, and grief of his loved ones, are theirs alone to know.

 

[Rhea]

I hope he does not suffer overlong. Cancer is cruel.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

Too many cigars in his life. Plus Limbaugh has admitted he has been vaping in recent years. Despite warnings from scientists and doctors that this is what happens when you smoke, Limbaugh chose to disregard doctors and scientific findings. I wonder, will Limbaugh admit his bad life choices are killing him, and openly speak to his audience to learn from his mistake and stop smoking immediately? And to his young listeners, all 12 of them, do not start the smoking habit?

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/na...0200203-4ma66mowazektovzh7hg2aynhq-story.html

...
Rush Limbaugh denied health risks of smoking years before lung cancer diagnosis: ‘I would like a medal for smoking cigars

“Firsthand smoke takes 50 years to kill people, if it does,” he (Limbaugh) said. “Not everybody that smokes gets cancer. Now, it’s true that everybody who smokes dies, but so does everyone who eats carrots.”



Limbaugh went on to ask why the government didn’t ban tobacco if it was so dangerous before claiming the society had vilified smokers, even though “their purchases are funding children’s health care programs.”



“I would like a medal for smoking cigars, is what I’m saying,” Limbaugh added.

....
“I’ve never seen cause of death: Tobacco products. Not everybody who smokes gets cancer. The most shocking event in the world is when somebody gets lung cancer and they never smoked, and everybody says, ‘How the hell did that happen?’ Because everybody’s been so persuaded to believe that it’s automatic.”
...



Ignorance can be deadly.

 

[Toni]

You all are far better people than I am. Yes, I know the horrors of lung cancer. Yes I’ve lost dear and much loved family members to various cancers, including lung cancer. I will again, quite soon. It is a horrible horrible disease.

The ‘balance’ I see is that a very good man that I love dearly is dying from this horrible disease. At least there is one evil son of a bitch who is dying from it too. Brings some balance to an unfair equation. Hope Limbaugh beats my loved one to the grave. And takes a not too short a list of other sons of bitches with him. Yes, that does make me a terrible terrible terrible bad person. But I’d have to descend miles beneath the surface of the earth to reach Limbaugh’s coat tails.

As for being drawn to his rhetoric by his manner of delivery? I cannot quite understand that although I know too many people who have felt the same—including one beloved family member who died of.. COPD which is not lung cancer but pretty awful.

Just thinking about Limbaugh makes my blood pressure rise and the bile come up in my throat in a way that not even Trump does. Limbaugh and his ilk are so large a part of why we have Trump in the first place.

I really wish I were a better person but lung cancer couldn’t happen to a more fitting victim.

 

[Angry Floof]

Thoughts and prayers.

 

[Brian63]

Ideally, he will make a speedy and complete recovery from this illness, then repent of and admit to all his wrongdoing throughout his life. Become a socialist, tree-hugging, environmentalist wacko, media elitist lib and encourage his audience that they were right all along and he was a doofus and asshole.

Short of that I am torn between wanting him to die quickly and painfully, or slowly and painfully. Not really wanting him to recover though. Just die already.

 

[Elixir]

Is it bad to wish him a swift and painless demise?

 

[Toni]

Is it bad to wish him a swift and painless demise?

Nope. I think it makes you a decent human being. A better one than I am.

I don't actually wish him more pain or a swifter or worse death than he will have. I'm a little bummed he's not dying of AIDS, being a fan of poetic justice, but that would just mean he had almost certainly infected who knows how many people. But honestly? I really don't care. For the most part, I've been able to live my life without even needing to be aware that he still existed. Effortlessly. Once in a while his name would pop up and I'd think: How the fuck is he still kicking???? And why on earth does someone like that get any air time or press????? and then go on with whatever I was doing.

The real problem is not the Limbaughs of the world. It's that there is an audience for such creatures.

 

[Jarhyn]

Is it bad to wish him a swift and painless demise?

Nope. I think it makes you a decent human being. A better one than I am.

I don't actually wish him more pain or a swifter or worse death than he will have. I'm a little bummed he's not dying of AIDS, being a fan of poetic justice, but that would just mean he had almost certainly infected who knows how many people. But honestly? I really don't care. For the most part, I've been able to live my life without even needing to be aware that he still existed. Effortlessly. Once in a while his name would pop up and I'd think: How the fuck is he still kicking???? And why on earth does someone like that get any air time or press????? and then go on with whatever I was doing.

The real problem is not the Limbaughs of the world. It's that there is an audience for such creatures.

Arguably, the act of having sex with Rush Limbaugh having such consequences would itself sufficiently strip me of empathy for those so afflicted, were it something like advanced AIDS. Maybe the second or third order infected would get empathy.

 

[ZiprHead]

Anyone remember him dissing on Michael J Fox for his tremors?

 

[Rhea]

Anyone remember him dissing on Michael J Fox for his tremors?

Ouch. Yah, he did do that.

 

[Toni]

Is it bad to wish him a swift and painless demise?

Nope. I think it makes you a decent human being. A better one than I am.

I don't actually wish him more pain or a swifter or worse death than he will have. I'm a little bummed he's not dying of AIDS, being a fan of poetic justice, but that would just mean he had almost certainly infected who knows how many people. But honestly? I really don't care. For the most part, I've been able to live my life without even needing to be aware that he still existed. Effortlessly. Once in a while his name would pop up and I'd think: How the fuck is he still kicking???? And why on earth does someone like that get any air time or press????? and then go on with whatever I was doing.

The real problem is not the Limbaughs of the world. It's that there is an audience for such creatures.

Arguably, the act of having sex with Rush Limbaugh having such consequences would itself sufficiently strip me of empathy for those so afflicted, were it something like advanced AIDS. Maybe the second or third order infected would get empathy.

Oh, I can’t possibly imagine that sex with Rush Limbaugh would in any way be consensual. I honestly can’t even contemplate the idea....

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Well, he isn't as fat, since he lost his hearing due to pain killer addiction really forcing his hand on the weight loss.