RIP Rush Limbaugh

Not really

Goddamnit, shakey.

not cool man. it's bad enough we have to go through this shit every time David Brooks serves up a lukewarm fart.

not quite yet

this guy was more of a nihilist than the punks could have ever been

Rush, rush
Hurry hurry, Limbaugh, RIP

aw i genuinely got my hopes up about this

your hopes will soon be fulfilled

Rush, rush
Hurry hurry, Limbaugh, RIP

― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, February 3, 2020 9:29 PM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

A+

Trump's gonna order federal flags at half mast for a month when this fucking toad croaks, isn't he?

As someone who lost their best friend to lung cancer in 2018, I may go insane if Lindbaugh is one of the 2% who lives five years.

I don’t understand the motivation behind posting fake death threads

he announced he has advanced lung cancer. so he'll be dead soon, but maybe not soon enough.

Trump's gonna order federal flags at half mast for a month when this fucking toad croaks, isn't he?

godfuckingdamnit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeX5vbk8aoA

February is off to a good start.

Lung cancer - welcome to the #resistance.

I don't think Trump would even know Limbaugh's name, if there's a period of public mourning it will be because of some behind the scenes GOP creeps.

Sounds like a situation: no win for Rush. But that's what happens when you change your atmosphere.

Grifter has been on the show recently, been intro'd at rallies by him, etc

I think they’re friendly. Rush was an early jumper on the Trump Train. iirc they were golfing (regularly?) around the time Trump decided that Obama wasn’t born here and that he needed to call into Fox News everyday and tell us about it.

Limbaugh's an ugly fat guy who can't get hard without injecting Viagra straight into his dick, no way would Trump actually be friendly with him or remember his name after the introduction.

Remember when Glenn Beck said he was going blind? Those were the days.

you guys, Rush Limbaugh has a family

does anyone have an email address that would reach them so we can send them a copy of this thread

hahahahaha

Sounds like a situation: no win for Rush. But that's what happens when you change your atmosphere.

well played, sir

Is the purpose of doing one of these RIP threads so someone can have their name associated with the first post? Is it comedy? It’s never funny so it can’t be that.

jokes are always funnier when they're explained

Lush Rimbaugh

While I'm able, in my better moments, to refrain from being a ghoul who actively anticipates the death of reactionary uber-conservative slugs whose overriding aim is to make the lives of people unlike themselves needlessly worse, I'm admittedly thankful that so many of them are increasingly old and unwell. #blessed

you guys, Rush Limbaugh has a family

does anyone have an email address that would reach them so we can send them a copy of this thread

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, February 3, 2020 2:57 PM (twenty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

nearly spit out water. at work. thanks djp

jokes are always funnier when they're explained

― Οὖτις, Monday

Oh yeah death is hilarious

RIP "not really" means:

1) the person in question is not actually dead
2) I do not wish the person in question to rest in peace

that's the joke

Genius

i had no used for him but RIP

only if the “p” stands for piss

Have u all met our newest poster Οὖτις, let me introduce him to u

honestly best if he rests in peace, he would make a terrible zombie

I think his ideal passing would involve his corpse being used as a floatation device by Floridians displaced by rising ocean tides

Under Medicare For All, this piece of reactionary shit might have a chance to live and learn why he became a piece of reactionary shit. https://t.co/FqZi7GDvZW

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) February 3, 2020

I think his ideal passing would involve his corpse being used as a floatation device by Floridians displaced by rising ocean tides

― Οὖτις, Monday, February 3, 2020 5:36 PM (ten minutes ago)

We're desperate, not serious.

His ideal passing will be preceded by his medical costs leading to bankruptcy.

I hope he repents, finds peace, and brings some of his followers with him

into a wood chipper

but not a real wood chipper

It'd be a series of indiana jones traps we agree to call 'the wood chipper'

to whom will he pass his golden microphone?

finally the cancer got cancer

unfortunately there's a permafrost of horrible people ready to take his listeners for their podcasts and such (to wit, i know a woman who was on m*lo's show on friday) (we are not friends)

i had no used for him but RIP

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, February 3, 2020 5:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

only if the “p” stands for piss

― A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Chooglin (will), Monday, February 3, 2020 5:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'll settle for "pieces."

i want to bowl at a fancy bowling alley with his preserved head

ILX POOL PARTY

you guys, Rush Limbaugh has a family

does anyone have an email address that would reach them so we can send them a copy of this thread

― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Monday, February 3, 2020 9:57 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

<3

https://i.imgur.com/nUJDHk2.png

this totally happened because black quarterbacks won league mvp and super bowl mvp

Xpost lol GUS BAKER!

i came as soon as i heard

Lol

Lol mookie.

https://static.politico.com/dims4/default/12ad720/2147483647/resize/971x/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fs3-origin-images.politico.com%2F2012%2F09%2F120905_sandra_fluke_dnc_ap_605.jpg

i'm pretty sure this guy figured out how to grift opioid deafness, he'll probly do the same thing with advanced lung cancer. it's like trump with bk- if you're truly evil, the abyss just lets you do it.

eat shit rush limbaugh

Limbaugh's death wouldn't be a loss but it also wouldn't be worth celebrating. Now Trump's or McConnell's deaths, OTOH....

You can enjoy the death of more than one awful person at a time. Inarguable that this cunt paved the way for Trump in his own way.

Yeah Rush was an OG brainworm disseminator. Lots of your run of the mill Reagan Republicans (my dad, for one) evolved into a full-on lunatics, all before Fox ever established the dominance it enjoys today. imo his influence in our political discourse is incalculable.

"Ditto-heads" iirc.

so when is the cancer getting Rush Limbaugh removed

Yeah Rush was an OG brainworm disseminator. Lots of your run of the mill Reagan Republicans (my dad, for one) evolved into a full-on lunatics, all before Fox ever established the dominance it enjoys today. imo his influence in our political discourse is incalculable.

Points taken, but I wonder if the current toxic climate of right-wing fascism isn't more Bill O'Reilly's/Rupert Murdoch's/Roger Ailes's doing than someone on a format that lost its relevance over a decade ago. I mean, I'm not exactly UNhappy about Limbaugh's impending demise, but he seems like a small-time con man compared to News Corp.'s Mafia family of awfulness.

so when is the cancer getting Rush Limbaugh removed

^^ Quality zing, though. One to frame for display purposes.

someone on a format that lost its relevance over a decade ago

"Who cares about talk radio? Nobody I know listens to that shit!"

Limbaugh is pretty much responsible for converting a few generations of people who drive around much of the day for their work to hard core conservatism

yeah I suspect Limbaugh’s syndication and huge audience in the late-80s - 90s supported the viability of an entire cable news channel dedicated to racist white grievance

i have the bandwidth to celebrate the demise of even the small time assholes (wish Rush isn’t).

*which

News -- President Trump told network anchors during a private lunch today that he will award Rush Limbaugh with the Medal of Freedom, one day after the prominent political radio host announced he has advanced lung cancer.https://t.co/Entc5UTXKm

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) February 4, 2020

say what you will, but that man knows how to pander

Do we in the UK have any media figures as hated as this? The malice oozing from this thread sure is a welcome distraction from imminent slow apocalypse, would like to match it.

I personally blame Rush Limbaugh for radicalizing my dad. Hundreds, thousands of hours spent listening to his putrid hateful bullshit

Usually I’m somewhat sympathetic to dee’s take above on speaking ill of the dying, but Limbaugh built his empire on hatred, and it’s still growing. So yeah, fuck him

plus the number of individually identifiable people, let alone groups, Rush has spoken ill of must be in the millions

"Do we in the UK have any media figures as hated as this?"

Katie Hopkins?

https://www.insider.com/katie-hopkins-receives-fake-award-from-youtuber-c-word-2020-1

nothing special about dying

for reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPxQ1gb9apM

Do we in the UK have any media figures as hated as this?"

Most of them are as hated as this iirc.

I think u mean Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Rush Limburger, thank u very much

Rush, rush
Hurry hurry, Limbaugh, RIP

― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, February 3, 2020 2:29 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Incidentally, had not heard this song in the wild for over two decades until I was in CVS this afternoon, am now forced to assume that their music programmer must be a lurker

wanna see you 'gree with me

a good thing about that stupid medal is that it’s sort of opened the floodgates for pointing out all of the horrible qualities possessed by this horrible man who helped get the us to this particular awful point. so, silver lining?

from CNN's awful story with the banner headline:

"El Rushbo," who announced to his millions of listeners on Monday his stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis, is regarded as a bigot and extremist by many Democrats. His populist streak and mastery of flaming political rhetoric was in many ways a precursor to the President's own political brand.

'by many Democrats'?!?

Is it just me or are national news orgs very quickly dispensing with even the facile illusion of journalistic objectivity?

hey maybe he'll wake up in an opioid haze, think the medal is a foil-wrapped treat and choke on it before his lungs can kill him

having been unfortunate enough to spend most of my first forty years living in the rural and suburban American midwest and American south, I join others attesting to the omnipresence of this pustule. at your apartment complex's office, waiting in line at a uhaul office, getting your haircut in mayor pete's town, this guy's cant would find you, incessant and lowing. may we rest in peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o30Cm92dlZ4

The first time I was arrested, the cops played a rock block of KISS on the way to the station. Second time, it was Limbaugh.

Aside from the oldies station (back when it played '50s music), my childhood radio memories are being stuck my grandparent's during the summer and having to sit through Paul Harvey and Limbaugh; specifically, the latter playing some impeachment-themed parody of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" sung by a Clinton impersonator. I can't say I understood most of what Limbaugh was talking about, but something about his smarmy tone grated enough to inoculate me against conservative punditry in general -- which came in handy, as my father turned into a Fox News addict after 9/11, and was enough of a Bush supporter to get the annual Christmas card/calendar "signed" by Bush.

having to sit through Paul Harvey and Limbaugh

yes. these two, back-to-back. so many days, so many rides to school. paul harvey's quiet, pernicious spin on hatred and white supremacy, followed by rush's full-throated animal embodiment of it

I went through a brief period in 7th/8th grade influenced by a favorite teacher in which I listened to A LOT of Rush and even read his first two books. I was a weird kid. I think this was also precipitated by the fact that I was a huge Clinton fan when he ran for president when I was in 6th grade and even went to one of his rallies and wore a way-oversized Clinton shirt and buttons to school on election day, only to have said buttons stolen from me and broken. Again, a weird kid.

I'm amazed he's never been outed as the self-loathing closeted queer per rumors of 30 years ago that i believe implicitly

He probably has a catch and kill system like trump did

paul harvey's quiet, pernicious spin on hatred and white supremacy,

I didn't like Harvey's personal politics either but this is going a bit far

paul harvey's quiet, pernicious spin on hatred and white supremacy

it flew right over my head when i was a kid but hey i guess there was a reason my dad was such a fan

yeah it def flew over my head as a kid. I didn't register his loathsome personal associations with McCarthy and Hoover until way later.

eh idk he was big time on that welfare queen train

I guess what made it pernicious was that it was so coded and obscured by his folksy demeanor

eh idk he was big time on that welfare queen train

yep, was about to mention that. i do connect that with hatred and white supremacy, even if those who espouse it often don't make the connection explicit

what makes me wish rush's lungs would explode at this very second is that he and harvey's bullshit WORKED on me. i accepted all of the things they said, as a child, and it took a long time to overturn all these ideas that seemed so logical at the time. i'm STILL working on cleaning up the mess they implanted in my head.

it was so coded and obscured by his folksy demeanor

yeah. see also that Mike Rowe motherfucker--not necessarily on the white supremacy tip (per se); but rightwing horseshit covered in honey for the "Home Depot libs"

yep :-/ hugs to u Karl.

I first learned of Limbaugh as the hero of a guy I went to high school with, who used to rage about things like Ellen being allowed on TV and Canada not being a Christian country (by whichever metrics he used to determine this). He once gave me shit for reading an issue of Rolling Stone that included Jann Wenner's endorsement of Clinton in '96. I tend to think of this guy turning into the saddest adult imaginable, but maybe he's finally in his element in the current political climate.

I listened to him during the Bush II years to understand his appeal, and I get it. He's quite good at what he does: the mimicry, filth-covered improvisations, etc. If your ears can handle it, listen to Michael Savage and Dennis Prager to see how amateurs fail.

Xpost Maybe he's dead

I was very different politically when Limbaugh first emerged, so I was rather ambivalent. 9/11 was a catalyst for me shifting more liberal so I grew to hate him early on, I remember being incensed when he was NFL commentating, not just because he was an offensive blowhard, but he was just so bad at it.

then again, Dennis Miller was just as bad

or shit maybe he's antifa now
xpost

true - I was both pro-life AND wrote a (terrible) paper defending the death penalty in high school.

lol i cast my very first vote for....

BOB DOLE

guys this is maybe 77 stuff

I'm making your cards

true - I was both pro-life AND wrote a (terrible) paper defending the death penalty in high school.

50% metal af.

TBH I used to occasionally listen to Rush Limbaugh as a kid, when he first became a name, but iirc this was at the same time I was also watching Morton Downey, Jr. and pro wrestling. I assume I was just mesmerized by the sight of a geek biting the head off of a live chicken.

guys this is maybe 77 stuff

― Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, February 5, 2020 12:28 PM bookmarkflaglink

lol

my fourth grade teacher used to share stories from harvey's "the rest of the story" books with us. always had fond memories of that and had no idea about harvey's politics until much later.

I just found out about it now! Would read those yellowed paperbacks at my grandma's (both my grandparents were pretty damn liberal)

In AP US History we had to read a bunch of Gore Vidal novels, and there was one kid who insisted Limbaugh would beat Vidal in a debate.

Perhaps he would "physically"

The first time I saw the Morton Downey Jr. show I was convinced it was a parody — I remember telling a friend that it must be a spinoff from Saturday Night Live, or something.

Non-New York area folks may not remember Bob Grant, but he was another real piece of shit going back to the 60s (when he was based in L.A.). He was on the air in New York until 2006, died in 2013. Totally forgotten now, I think.

I worked in a chain bookstore when Limbaugh's first book came out, and we had a HUGE display of it at the front of the store. I hated having to constantly see that bloated face-too-small-for-his-pumpkin-head fuckface at work. HATED it.

I read Frankens book instead

Bob Grant's "Get off my phone!" catchphrase was swiped by Tom Scharpling

It's hard to talk about without divulging personal details on the internet, but suffice to say I came from a republican home and my father was a big influence on me in many ways, so after getting out on my own I decided to read his first book when it came out. I decided all on my own that he was a total asshole. It broke "the spell". It really was a catalyst which drove me away from right wing politics in general. So, I guess I can thank him in a weird way.

It would make for an interesting thread premise, actually: 'Ex-right-wing ILXors, what broke the spell for you?' The compulsory parody thread would be even sweeter.

one kid who insisted Limbaugh would beat Vidal in a debate.

In rhetoric there's a recognized category of argument called "appeal to prejudice". For some audiences this argument beats all others.

always had fond memories of that and had no idea about harvey's politics until much later.

and now you know...the rest of the story

GOOD DAY

https://frinkiac.com/video/S05E01/tqqrLcuOMraRJDNzs4ArtnfFlZs=.gif

My dad was a republican and I felt from a pretty early age that the way he treated people was pretty much the polar opposite of the way I would ever want to treat people. Add water and stir.

Unfortunately I still have to struggle daily with the legacy of being half-asshole on my dad's side.

Cynthia Plaster Caster made a cast of Bob Grant!!!

who mocked the disabled better?

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DopeyPresentHydatidtapeworm-small.gif or https://media1.giphy.com/media/oNVVwmmA1uVck/source.gif

rush looks like he's dancing at the club, trump looks like he's caught in a hail of tommy gun fire

we can only dream

I remember from when I was pretty young my mom used to play him in the car often so that we could laugh at him & dunk on him. I have fond memories of being able to crack her up as a little kid with my impression of him, loudly announcing that this dinner or w/e was entering HOUR 2 OF BROADCASSST EXCELLENCCCCCCE.

God, if Trump gets decisively beaten in November, preferably by Bernie or Warren, I may have to take off work for an entire week on account of being drunk 24/7/7.

unfortunately there's something already hypothetically scheduled for the hypothetical week after trump loses in an election: the accusations that the election was rigged, the launch of investigations in the senate, and a bunch of rural white people walking around with guns in cities

good reason to be drunk imo

I remember when Rush was briefly deaf, at the time I thought it was hilarious how he would occasionally modulate his voice extremely high or low without apparently realizing it - dont feel great about laughing at someones deafness in hindsight, but at the time I thought it was sweet poetic justice that after all those years of recklessly running his mouth, he had finally literally lost control of his voice.

I feel awful about it but I really kinda do want him to die suffering in agonizing pain, and to have all of his nurses be queer POC.

why would you inflict that on those poor nurses

in a perfect world, his nurses would be tree stumps

xp
don't feel awful about that. he's not only THOUGHT much worse things about everyone that isn't a white conservative christian, but he has had more influence than just about anyone in the country over the last 40 years in transforming his hatred into the GOP platform

and got awarded with a fucking medal of freedom for his efforts. he can't die soon enough

xxxp fair, replace "queer POC" with "the people from HOSTEL."

he doesn't have the medal yet

Rush's consciousness needs to be uploaded into the cloud a la San Junipero and be whisked to a VR environment where he does nothing but witness gay weddings for eternity.

Maybe he'll actually gain a heart during the exercise.

he doesn't have the medal yet

didn't Melania place it around his neck during the SOTU? or was that a fake placeholder medal until he gets the real one?

that was the foil-wrapped chocolate medal

oh did that happen? I didn't bother with the SOTU

sorry my bad

yeah, i didn't bother either (first SOTU i've missed since bush's first term?, i think?), but i saw the clip. he's sitting up there with melania, and then trump announced that he's an american hero of freedom and then melania reached into her bag of blood diamonds and pulled out the foil-wrapped chocolate medal placeholder and slipped it around limbaugh's neck. limbaugh's face went bright red and his mouth hung open in that dumb way that midwestern dads do when someone is filming them open up a present. then he gave a big thumbs up to the president and all of the republicans who were so proud of their racist enabler getting honored

Great thing about those dancing Rush?trump gifs is whatever music you're listening to synchronizes with the movements. I'm cracking myself up.

Rush is one of the biggest pieces of shit in American public life and basically opened the door to being a professional asshole as a viable career option. I can't say that Fox News wouldn't exist without his popularity (which was massive between the time he really took off to the demise of his football broadcasting career), but he showed how lucrative it could be and how willing people were for the kind of message- and as importantly - the tone- that he had to offer.The damage he has done to the psyche of this country is irreparable in my opinion. Cancer is the absolute worst, and it fucking sucks, but so does Rush.

Life is hard
And so am I
Better give Rush something
So he dies

mega dittos lung cancer

rush looks like he's dancing at the club, trump looks like he's caught in a hail of tommy gun fire

― omar little, Wednesday, February 5, 2020

real lol

I feel awful about it but I really kinda do want him to die suffering in agonizing pain, and to have all of his nurses be queer POC.

― Bougy! Bougie! Bougé! (Eliza D.)

did you read Angels in America recently

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh says his lung cancer is terminal https://t.co/408q1lu4Il

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 20, 2020

What happened to Glenn Beck going blind? Did that ever happen?

I totally forgot about that, but now I'm thinking about that one week period where Glenn Beck was photographed wearing a hipster scarf and everyone was like, "oh he's #resistance now!".

Glenn Beck was the one constantly crying at his blackboard right?

couldn't have happened to a more deserving person. fuck you rush limbaugh

i hope they shove his presidential medal of freedom down his throat before they close the coffin, and his body deserves to be dug back up a few decades right now and prodded with needles for no particular reason

at least, that's how i feel about it

tough but fair

in ZERO way does he deserve that photo to be the WashPost image for the story. sure, show the fucking racist, vigilant white supremacist, giving a thumbs up and getting a medal. no, fuck that. show him as a sweaty, angry man provoking violent white resentment into his microphone for forty fucking years, what a piece of shit

"sO MuCh fOr tHe tOlErAnT LeFt"

Karl Malone otm

"2003, ESPN removed Limbaugh as a football commentator after he said Donovan McNabb, an African American quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, got more credit than warranted because “the media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback can do well."

ESPN paid rush limbaugh to talk about football? in the 2000s?! wtf

was very short lived and he was very bad at it

you know, we really need a voice to draw in that sexist, white supremacist crowd...where is the vitriolic anger toward anyone who isn't a white christian during ESPN football broadcasts? get my man rush limbaugh on the phone

During summers in college, I worked for a county highway department and a big portion of my job was spent sitting in a truck, either driving ahead of a patching crew to alert oncoming cars or sitting at the mile spaced intersections out in the wide open country to redirect the rare vehicle. Spent a lot of time reading and listening to the radio, but the worst week was when we were situated in one of the only "groves" in Central Illinois and the only station I could pick up was the talk radio station with his show. It was awful and I had trouble deciding whether the stifling summer silence or Limbaugh's frothing rage was more torturous.

"2003, ESPN removed Limbaugh as a football commentator after he said Donovan McNabb, an African American quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, got more credit than warranted because “the media has been very desirous that a Black quarterback can do well."

ESPN paid rush limbaugh to talk about football? in the 2000s?! wtf

― president of my cat (Karl Malone), Tuesday, October 20, 2020 12:02 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

they were floundering around for a while. I think they felt like they needed to try to recreate some kind of Howard Cosell phenomenon...which really could never be recreated. So they tried outsized personalities, like Rush for a minute and Dennis Miller...both crashed and burned.

sadly not literally

my dad was p much already a proto-chud from the minute Reagan kicked off his campaign in Neshoba Co Mississippi talking about “”states’ rights””, but I hold Limbaugh responsible for pushing him right over the edge.

I really wish Hell was real

i hold limbaugh responsible for my dad. he went to college in limbaugh's hometown, and was in on limbaugh from the early days of his radio hatred. limbaugh was someone who could belittle women and other races while combining it with christian righteousness - the perfect prescription for my dad

just going to keep using the past tense with rush - he's already dead to me

So glad I've never had to listen to this guy's show, ever, in any context.

I would like to say I would never hear his voice again (maybe I won't!) but my father in law always likes us to take him to an antique market near his house when we visit and half the stalls have radios tuned to this moron. I have a feeling that after he dies these stations will still replay him forever.

he donated a lot of money to local churches around missouri and illinois, too - that's part of why he has so many defenders, i'd suppose. he knows his target audience

he likes to donate money to the churches which still think the "american slavery was endorsed by the bible" viewpoint is part of the discussion

this will be the second biggest Rush death of 2020

But only one of those will have been truly upsetting

Lung cancer varies but average 5-year survival rate for Stage 4 is 2%. Reading between the lines, he was diagnosed in Feb, probably underwent some initial chemo/radiation type treatment (which doesn't really do much for lung cancer) and then was prescribed a cancer drug that worked somewhat by reducing the cancer or at least maintained the status quo. The thing is, unfortunately ime, these drugs only work for a certain period of time and then stop being effective for a patient, so the doctor noticed the drug had stopped working on his six-week/ninety-day checkup and has now prescribed another drug that may or may not work as well as the first one. I am making some assumptions, but the fact that he was diagnosed in Feb and the drug is already not working in Oct is not a good sign. This could go two ways: the new drug is effective and maybe he gets another year or two, tops, or the drug doesn't work and he is dead in the next six months.

Regardless, it is pretty clear to me that Limbaugh isn't going to see election day 2024 and there is a decent chance he doesn't see the midterms in 2022.

Also, fuck Rush Limbaugh.

hopefully he dies after Trump leaves office so there's no state funeral

Trump's advisors currently exploring whether you can pardon someone from cancer

aw I was hoping I would get to revive the thread with this news, that's what I get for actually working

I know Twitter will go out of its way to ban people who say shit about him but a large part of me thinks it's vitally important he understands how many people are actively looking forward to the day he dies and that that will be a significant part of his legacy.

It is extremely difficult over a lifetime to do so much evil and so little good that one completely forfeits the human privilege of sympathy over the news of one's diagnosis of a terminal illness. But Rush was up to the challenge.

An American Tale

i wish he were already dead

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

Are we there, yet?

The number of “Rush Limbaugh radicalized my dad and ruined our family” stories being told in various places right now is truly terrifying. I hope this is a safe space to fervently wish him a long, excruciating death wherein he hears nothing except how roundly he is hated and what a blight he was on the American cultural landscape, and that maybe, just maybe, he has a come-to-Jesus moment about it, and spends his final days in an agony of guilt, shame and despair from which there is no reprieve.

R-ing in P being way too good for him

more like rot in a pit!!!!

rot in a pit rush limbaugh

Man, it's depressing that so many dads are so easily pushed over that edge tbh, but I guess it just shows how a popular figure can give people permission to stop checking their worst impulses.

As a person, a real piece of shit, and I don't find it easy to speak ill of a dying person.

As a phenomenon, important to understand. I had a job where once a week I had to be in an office where someone was always playing limbaugh, and one thing that caught me about him was that he was fairly funny at times. I think you could even say that the alt right owes him a lot stylistically -- he's a pre-internet troll.

otm yeah hes definitely a pioneer of the joking-but-not-really-but-sort-of-joking hall of mirrors tone that a lot of maga twitter and the alt right thrives on nowadays

1860.

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) November 6, 2020

oops. i meant to link to a short thread (5 tweets or so) which handily breaks down what rush is telling his idiots right now:

I've been listening to a lot of right-wing talk radio yesterday and today. All take it as a given that Democrats have stolen the election, and, with the feckless Republican establishment having stood down, successfully.... 1/

— Rick Perlstein (@rickperlstein) November 6, 2020

(Perlstein's "1860." was in response to this question: "Do you know of any time when the lunatic fringe (a) was this bonkers, and (b) captured as large a share of the population?")

Karl, yes, that is exactly what I am hearing in the dextrosphere as well: Trump won, Dems stole it, RINO squish establishment GOPers (and Fox) let it happen. War.

i have been blissfully tuned out for the past few days, so i wasn't sure how widespread it was beyond the core rightwing talk radio audience.

I said this on the other thread, but I don't buy Perlstein's theory that this helps Ossoff in the runoff. Perdue was "trump's man in Georgia"

sorry that wasn't really his theory, just that this should be "cheering for Democrats" which I guess someone else interpreted to mean good for Ossoff. Perlstein doesn't say that.

did especially Trumpy candidates do better or worse this election?

In re: "1860" and "war." Under the present condition of US politics, such rhetoric could only deliver something more resembling Rwanda than a replay of the Confederate States vs. The Union. I don't think it's come to that, yet.

Influence of Talk radio a striking common denominator there re rwanda

Help me Rwanda

Can't happen soon enough. This was after the US Capitol coup attempt:

"There's a lot of people calling for the end of violence," Limbaugh said. "There's a lot of conservatives, social media, who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable. Regardless of the circumstances. I'm glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual tea party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn't feel that way."

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

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

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

ok this time for reals

woop

rest in hell you bitch

fuck yes

make today a national holiday

Say hi to the devil for me, Rush!

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

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/knAAAOSwhXxeTf5y/s-l300.jpg

https://giphy.com/gifs/animation-ilx-jiggly-panda-4iV6quWypxgcg

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

wooo i hope it was terrifying and painful

link?

Good riddance, you bloated sack of shit.

good.

yay

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

Good riddance to someone who actively made the world worse.

god wanted his talent back apparently

good. rest in poopies.

binging my L.A. Style tracks

later day you piece of shit

LOL president keyes

wow only 70, i thought he was at least 120

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

i'm fapping rn

they should just leave him in that studio

"Just another dead doper. And a dirt bag."

Like Trump, one of the only men who could take Viagra and just get taller.

no one quote him here, please. Not anymore.

YES

let his words die with him.

let his decomposed head be used for tetherball

"Oh noes I'm dead."--Rush Limbaugh

may all of the videos of his MNF broadcasts be destroyed

lol rob

I think we should quote him extensively, only every quote should be rewritten to say "ow my balls"

Wonder how quickly the garbage can they dump him in will fill up with pee-pee

Depends on if his skin tears

RUHS LIMBALLS FOR DEADSIDETN

he took down that elephant thing hardcore

Lol, I found out the good news by seeing that Rest in Piss was trending on twitter

excellent

RIP Rash Limbo you were no lush Rambo

Hunter S. Thompson's Nixon obit appropriate here:

In the traditionalist style, the dead president's body would be wrapped and sewn loosely in canvas sailcloth and dumped off the stern of a frigate at least 100 miles off the coast and at least 1,000 miles south of San Diego, so the corpse could never wash up on American soil in any recognizable form.

i dunno about you guys but i was never a fan of his talk radio show

Rush Limbaugh was very much like Willy Loman, if instead his family just screamed at him for 3 hours to just die already.

Can't wait for the inevitable butthurt backlash against people celebrating the death of someone who lived as if his fondest wish was for people to celebrate his death

refreshing that one of these pricks didn't cling stubbornly onto life well into his 80s/90s like so many others

in honor of Rush I'm going to have a genie take away the hearing of 300,000 other conservatives

I forgot he was on ESPN. That was a fuckin nightmare.

kind of funny how Colin K taking a knee has generated 3+ years of controversy, a ruined career, cries of traitor, and "politics don't belong in football", but Limbaugh actually saying on the air that Donovan McNabb wasn't really all that good and the media was just trying to advance the narrative of a black QB succeeding and getting fired for it was an "outrage" to these same people

the Excellence in Shit and Piss Network

oh he died that's nice

finally

this is a positive development

finally
it has happened to Rush
hope his teeth are extruded
and his ribs are all crushed

Can't wait for the inevitable butthurt backlash against people celebrating the death of someone who lived as if his fondest wish was for people to celebrate his death

― old lunch

Nicely put

hearing reports that he tried to eat his medal of freedom and choked, awaiting confirmation

Senate has confirmed him as having choked on medal of freedom, 51-49

I don’t know if americans are aware how much his brand of conservatism has been succesfully exported beyond the borders, his death was a necessity.

everyone's death is iirc

hoping the NYT chooses to quote this thread extensively

I'm hearing reports that Rush Limbaugh is still very much dead, can anyone confirm

Senate has confirmed Rush is dead, 51-49

our decision desk has called it, his dirty old ass is rotting on a cold slab as we speak

Plugged ol' Rush into the anagram machine and

Ham Hubris Lug

Now, finally, every mention of 'Rush' can be appertaining to the band and not this cunt.

Or the BAD II song.

My condolences to lung cancer for having to live with Limbaugh for so long.

Limbaugh died as he lived: a malignant windbag.

this was wonderful news to wake up to

i will try to remember this day every year

Can't wait for the inevitable butthurt backlash against people celebrating the death of someone who lived as if his fondest wish was for people to celebrate his death

― old lunch

i'm getting my rush limbaugh impersonation ready to go so that if/when there's an inevitable butthurt backlash, i can just pretend i'm rush limbaugh back at them

*faces the other direction, rubs face a little, hunches shoulders. turns back around*

"I'M RUSH LIMBAUGH AND I'M AN EVIL PIECE OF SHIT THAT DESTROYS FAMILIES! NYUCK NYUCK NYUCK! I'M RUSH LIMBAUGH!!"

"AND YOU'RE ONE OF MY LISTENERS! YOU DUMB PIECE OF SHIT! FUCK YOUR FAMILY TOO! I'M RUSH LIMBAUGH!!"

had to come check on you guys in this difficult time

"I'M MARK LEVIN! I'M EVIL TOO!"
"AND I'M SEAN HANNITY, AND I'M EVIL TOO!"
"I'M TUCKER CARLSON, AND I'M EVIL TOO!"
"AND I'M THE RICH GUY WHO PAYS THEM ALL TO SPEW HATRED ON MY HATE SPEECH RADIO NETWORK, AND I'M EVIL TOO!"

♫ "WE'RE EVILLLLL, AND WE LIKE TO FUCK YOUR FAMILY, LA-DE-DAAAH! ♫
♫ AND OUR EXTENDED FAMILIES ARE EVIL AS WEEEEEELLLLLLLLLL ♫

food not agreeing with me, GOTTA GO TAKE A WICKED 'RUSH'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm6GiHomqG4
“My question is about the budget, sir”

“I have a very beautiful weakness,” the former president told Fox News. “I tend to like people who like me.”

Trump described Limbaugh as a “legend” who was beloved by his fans. “There aren’t too many legends around, but he is a legend,” Trump said.

When asked about what he and Limbaugh had spoken about in recent weeks, the president said they discussed the presidential election results.

“Rush thought we won, and so do I, by the way,” Trump said. “I think we won substantially.”

hey thanks Rush for priming the pump for pretty much every bad political development of my adult life. hope you went painfully!

Actually quite a fitting tribute for our ex-prez to eulogize Rush by talking mostly about himself.

assumed this thread being active today was not related to his actual demise lol

I keep it real, unlike shakey mo

Wait, guys, breaking news: it turns out that these were all just rumors and innuendo. It seems that Rush Limbaugh is actually still alive.

...

Not really.

He’s fully dead, repeat Rush Limbaugh died and is no longer alive

Someone should poke him with a stick just to be sure.

Or like a lot of someones with a lot of sticks.

I know there's been a lot of scientific interest in seeing what would happen if we shot a human being directly into the sun, but has it actually happened? It's time to move beyond theory and put our innovative astro-corpse-disposal methods into practice

same deal with the science regarding hydraulic presses crushing things. we've crushed gold bars with ease, but can these machines handle a rush limbaugh?

Confirmed: Rush not dead, Vote was 51-49 with 49 Republicans, Joe Manchin, and Diane Feinstein crossing the aisle to vote that he's alive.

xp think of what science could do with the resultant paste

i just feel like maybe rush should give back a little to the scientific community, maybe donate parts of his body to several hundred different hundred unauthorized cadaver studies, along with industrial engineer groups

lol forget the aisle, Feinstein crossed the entire length of the Capitol to put in that vote

news: Feinstein and Limbaugh lovers, awaiting confirmation

Best GIS search result returned for Rush today

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jSusm4hARug/T1GT0zEutMI/AAAAAAAAFkQ/STfQsLMqJdY/s1600/enjoy%2Bthe%2Bproflowers%2Bslut.jpg

just saw Prince Philip is in the hospital, could this really be that kind of a day?!

pic.twitter.com/fXfW207FDq

— Poorly Aged Things (@PoorlyAgedStuff) February 17, 2021

take Ted Cruz, Alex Jones, and Dan Bongino today, and it'll be a real Mardi Gras

xxp i suspect a last ditch effort to save rush by grafting his head onto philips shoulder a la The Thing with Two Heads

Death is such a personal thing. When I think of Limbaugh I instantly remember how he made fun of gay people dying of AIDS, making a cruel and hopeless time even worse, but that's just me. You have to find your own way of being happy that he's dead. 🥂

— Stephen Guy-Bray (@SGUYBRAY) February 17, 2021

Burn Limbaugh's body to power Texas

— The Big Communism Builder ☭⭐️🦌 (@CmndrFish) February 17, 2021

What temperature does Oxycontin burn at

just curious

it's not so much the temperature, it requires an invisible hand to hold it up to the flames

He took his sweet time about it. Seems like he got his terminal diagnosis last September and he still managed to shovel steaming heaps of lies and stupidity for months after the election. What a piece of shit human being.

not many people come to know their fate ahead of time, like he did. he had time to step back and re-assess his mortality, his life, his purpose. he could have even tried to make amends in some ways (and man we all would have lost our shit on him if he tried). but instead he doubled down on everything that made him evil and got a medal from a fascist for his efforts

One thing that does upset me is that he isn't going to die again

RONG

Rush Limbaugh - Dead Again

I never listened to his show but I know about his coded and not-so-coded racism and hatred. Fuck him.

As someone who tried not to pay attention to him, I'm wondering: Was he honest about his political opinions or was he just following the money? Or does that even matter?

he seemed less like today's Alex Jones and that he is really that batshit stupid

oh.
i'm sorry.

WAS.

Rush, pretty sure WYSIWYG. Maybe the lower you get down the Fox broadcaster chain, it's more a career move for post-collegiate Media majors (and/or stupidity given free rein) vs. their firm convictions.

he was one of the first post-Fairness Doctrine beneficiaries, so it wasn't as glamorous a career path like it is now to be a human shitposter

would it be ok to rename this thread to Do Not RIP Rush Limbaugh, or something similar? because please don't rest in peace

Tbf it also stands for ‘rest in piss’.

But do we even have to let him "rest" at all? I'd lobby for "Rots in Piss" myself.

There’s also ‘rip in pieces’. Sky’s the limit.

Racist idiot, perished.

Runny Ileostomy Pollution

scrolling through all of Rush's greatest hits on Twitter, this guy really was the proto-Trump, just the absolute worst stance possible on every single issue

why are you scrolling through his tweets

you literally don't have to ever pay attention to him again, that's what is so great about him being dead

http://i.imgur.com/FvT0puq.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/FvT0puq.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/FvT0puq.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/FvT0puq.png

I'm not looking through his tweets, the people I follow are just filling my timeline with one example after another of him being a monster

this dude really was so instrumental in putting the GOP on the path from dogwhistles to explicitly yelling the ‘quiet’ part. I feel like by the time Obama was in office the Fox white power opinion hour had caught up w him and then by Trump basically shot past him, but he had a good decade and a half run where he was the voice of vanguard. what a piece of shit.

xp: this seems like a good time to unfollow these people

oh it's all celebratory in tone

fp'd you forks I thought I knew which threads would be safe from this

disappointed that shakey hasn't dropped by for this

i need to come up with a name for that inverted facial expression
"Mister Bliggins"

"Senator Cruz"

Gotta thank cancer for this one.

Smoking too.

how dead is he

https://t.co/O9pmevkiTA pic.twitter.com/TO2vQx51xI

— giabuchi lastrassi (@jaboukie) February 17, 2021

ok that made me lol

i went on a cemetery walk with a friend of mine together who said that when she was a kid, her extremely left leaning mother (who died when my friend was a teen) use to put on rush in the car to get hype and just start cursing

that crab thing is monumental

It could be the start of a pincer movement

y'all do know the noisestorm crab thing predates rush's death by three years, right?

if rush limbaugh hated gender neutral bathrooms so much why is his grave going to be one?

— genderdruid (@Soblin_) February 17, 2021

amazing

legit

pisssssssss

let all people of conscience unite and pee in the same stream

Excellent work.

Apart from all the obvious stuff, wasn’t the guy a sex tourist? I remember something about being caught entering the Dominican Republic with dozens of viagra or poppers or something.

DR john

Wow @ that tweet, best and longest laugh I've had all week

it will never get old

Yeah that joke’a been around for ages, every so often you see another person post a pic of thatchers grave & say “found a gender neutral toilet in uk”. Obv it is inevitable and right that a bunch of ppl will repurpose it for this occasion

People don't talk enough about Rush Limbaugh's thoughts on horse sex, so I was grateful to come across this tender eulogy from @mudede https://t.co/gtLoWL4i83

— Rich Smith (@richsssmith) February 17, 2021

pisssssssss

― That's not really my scene (I'm 41) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, February 18, 2021 1:44 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

OMG remind me what thread pissssssssssssss is on! i think of that gif all the time

https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=85467

just checking - this motherfucker still dead?

gotta go

Thank you Forks!

"Limbaugh was good in the beginning but then he sold out" pic.twitter.com/glI2NN5WKF

— Scott Lemieux (@LemieuxLGM) February 18, 2021

Peggy Noonan column headline:

Rush Limbaugh’s Complicated Legacy
He was a gifted entertainer and advocate, but in his later years certain flaws became more evident.

Plumbing the Depths of the Asshole

save it for the gay thread

Adolph Hitler was a gifted statesman and public speaker, but in his later years certain flaws became more evident.

(And yes I just went full Godwin, but if this particular occasion doesn't warrant it I don't know what does.)

Rush Limbaugh: Saved on the Gay Thread

it's alright
cos he's saved on the gay
(thread)

Don't count on it, unless by "saved" you mean "saved for extreme ridicule and wishing his death had come earlier"

people who defend him in any way = a good litmus test for whether or not they have significant stock in patriarchal white supremacy imo.

well, yeah. he went out of his way to embrace the worst possible position on every social and political issue - just short of criminal or civil culpability. it was his trademark.

Calling that Taibbi tweet (and the linked essay) a "defense" of Rush Limbaugh isn't a fair reading.

i don't think taibbi's doing an accurate reading of rush limbaugh either

takes a very selective memory to believe for even the briefest seconds that limbaugh had an "anti-establishment" pov even if he ultimately characterizes it as an act

it's just very fucking insultingly dumb

there's zero reason to give matt taibbi the benefit of the doubt on anything

show that tweet to anyone who grew up gay in a household that listened to rush limbaugh and they would prob suggest that matt taibbi should stop shitting through his fingers

Posthumous pontifications about Rush Limbaugh that any more complex than 'should I aim directly for his mouth or just sort of hose down the entire corpse' can gtfo imho

I tried the day he died (but gave up because I'm old and technology confuses me) to screenshot + post the headlines from various news outlets that were all like 'that ornery rapscallion, he sure was controversial, but my goodness he was a broadcaster'. I like just kept dry heaving every time I read one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU7gnMSzf_c

Rush was “anti-establishment” the same way Trump, talking shit about GOP leadership, supporting Pat Buchanan against GHWB. i.e. not in a good way

Bring that Tweet Back.. https://t.co/mQiC7THxZw

— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) February 23, 2021

Happy deadniversary, cunt

it was a good thing that he died, he should have died much earlier

He should have lived in obscurity and died alone.

Addition by subtraction.

It completely passed me by that this cunt died. So happy right now.

I want a new drug
One that does what it should
Makes me forget Rush Limbaugh died
Then when I find out he did I feel good

Addition by subtraction, that one.

I didn't know he got out of Vietnam by claiming an anal cyst as a dependent until last week when I was doing some reading on draft evaders.

Haha, I forgot that I had already posted that. Oh well, it deserves repeating.

Posts you had thoughts about and decided to post a second time

still waiting for someone to cough up the Limbaugh family email

"Limbaugh Family Email" would be a good punk song

I didn't know he got out of Vietnam by claiming an anal cyst as a dependent until last week when I was doing some reading on draft evaders.

And that anal cyst who nobody liked grew up to be...Tucker Carlson.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/bethany-mandel-define-woke-video-stolen-youth.html

Slate/Ismail: It’s hard for us to discuss terms like wokeness because there seems to be such a wide disparity in what people mean when they say it.

Mandel: I think that people see it in different ways. I see it as an insidious thing that’s happening in America, and other people see it as, um—

An answer to something that’s insidious in America.

Correct.

You say you hear that parents in general believe that the pendulum has swung too far. Is the anti-wokeness movement, and the overall production of so many right-leaning books, swinging the pendulum back too far?

We try not to categorize ourselves that way. We want to see ourselves as more wholesome. But also, our main book of the month was Rush Limbaugh. So, is that characterization necessarily like totally accurate? Obviously not. I’m just being totally honest. We see a hole in the market and I personally think every kid should know who Rush Limbaugh was because he was a very important person in our national discourse and our national dialogue in the media. And you can treat him as Che Guevara, like a saint. I just think it’s important for every kid in America to know who someone like Rush Limbaugh was.

i'm sorry that his ideas and his name are being forced to live on, but also, thank god that rush limbaugh is dead. got what a fucking asshole who really should have died many years earlier. we're lucky that he's not around to make our world worse today as "woke" exploded around the time he finally did one good thing and died

lol who treats Che like a saint

he's at best a face on a T-shirt

woke people, apparently (xpost)

Love her word salad when she's asked what she actually means by woke

LOL: Briahna Joy Gray BREAKS the brain of Rising guest Bethany Mandel by asking her to define "wokeness" pic.twitter.com/uwRSSH0LaM

— The Vanguard (@vanguard_pod) March 14, 2023

"take your time" lol

Woke was born around the same time Rush Limbaugh died. Think about it.

Love whenever this thread gets a revive, reminds me Rush is dead

lol who treats Che like a saint

"They said he was a saint
But I know he ain't"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFa9wSgG5p8

xp it's high time for a RIP Tucker Carlson thread, maybe it'll help speed things along

That thread is so overdue.