A decade ago - all the rage bait YouTubers.
Today:
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Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now
Probably a bunch more names.
Laura whatever her name is who is sucking off Trump right now
Apparently she got dumped by the campaign team.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/laura-loomer-anti-republican-posts-donald-trump-travel/
Nah, I heard that she ran out of tictacs, and had the nerve to ask Trump to start washing occasionally, instead of popping a mint before going down.
🤢 What an awful day to have a too vivid imagination
Or even be able to read. Sheesh. I’m going to consume items that I’m hoping erase my short-term memory.
That’s not the point of the tictac blowie but now I hope they make a menthol version
From the WaPo article (where the daily dot got its info)
He also promised advisers he would not regularly invite her to travel with him on his plane
Emphasis mine. He didn’t dump her, he just said he wouldn’t invite her regularly.
Ahh. So not really dumping just not flying her everywhere. Got it.
I was about to correct you and say that YouTube didn’t even exist a decade ago, and now I feel old instead
You’re off by a lot! Youtube is almost 20
That is cool!
YouTube had already gone through several eras a decade ago.
Saying that makes me want to yell at a cloud.
I didn’t even know (or care) that he was dead.
No idea who that is, no idea why people give attention to ragebaiters
You have no idea? Might want to check that out. May have been born without a useful chunk of your brain. Just concerned about you.
They’ll die, yes, but they’ll be survived by another, larger generation of them.
You don’t remember a single mold cell, but it’s really fucking hard to get rid of the entire infestation.
My brother was into him back in the day (he still has shit taste) and another sibling and I found a clip of him telling fox news he makes things up and does it all for the money. Brother didn’t care and just kept listening to the guy
Ugh, I did not need my favourite web comic being associated with Limbaugh.
“Associated with”? That’s definitely incorrect. Maybe"referencing", “calling out” or even “denouncing”…
Associate: a mental connection between ideas or things.
“the word bureaucracy has unpleasant associations”
the action of making a mental connection.
Associate: to join as a partner, friend, or companion; They were closely associated with each other during the war.
See? I can paste definitions too! I was merely pointing out that that specific word choice could lead the reader to infer collaboration or partnership. The comic is clearly not endorsing that worldview…
I don’t know what to tell you mate. You came off to me as if trying to tell me I didn’t use the word “associate” correctly, and I was trying to show you that I, in fact, did. I got nothing else for ya.
And the comment is clearly didn’t mean that definition… you’re pretty stupid for a smartass.
And the comment is clearly didn’t mean that definition
Yep, definitely dealing with a rational, intelligent human here. No need to engage…
Good fucking riddance!
“farting fake fury five days a week” is going to be my new go-to. 👍
That was a beautiful alliteration, but in reality it’s 24/7.
But you’re remembering him right now.
It must be exhilarating to you to imagine that you’re being clever.
One frustrating thing about Limbaugh (and Jones and Hannity, et al) is that they made Being Angry a Right Wing Thing.
Extremely frustrating when you see a genocide in Gaza or global temperatures spiking or some cop shoot up a subway over a $3 fare, express anger, and have someone respond “You just sound like Rush Limbaugh”.
There are real reasons to feel righteous anger and to use that as motivation to act. But guys like Rush just fill the airways with this white nationalist noise. They make the idea of being angry this exclusive Right Wing attitude to have.
The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won’t accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.
Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it’s good for reactionaries. They want you either impotently angry so you can’t think clearly to make those long term, organized plans; or they want you mad enough to go do a little stochastic terrorism.
Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that’s motivational and doesn’t slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can’t turn into immediate results.
The problem is that you can be angry all day and it won’t accomplish anything without coordinated, planned, collective action. And collective action is made more difficult with angry people.
I disagree. People who aren’t agitated make for poor partners. They’re unreliable, uncommitted, and easily wooed by empty platitudes from the folks committing the offenses.
Anger motivates you to act Right Now, which is why it’s good for reactionaries.
Generic always-on anger burns you out and turns you into a cynic. It’s the cynicism that reactionaries feed on. But when you have a baseline moral position and you can recognize what does and does not rise to the level of offense, you can leverage outrage productively rather than feel sour and hateful all the time.
Progressives have a lot of trouble hitting the slow-burn simmer of anger in a way that’s motivational and doesn’t slip into despair when you get tired from all that rage that you can’t turn into immediate results.
Progressives (in the US) have a hard time mobilizing large groups toward productive action because they lack the resources and the institutional structure to mobilize individual activists into a collective workforce. When progressives get access to these kinds of resources, they generate enormous social value in a relatively short amount of time. The despair we routinely see in progressive communities stems from groups that are fractured - often deliberately so - and undermined by state and corporate institutions.
The First Labor of Heracles is reeling right now
We need to get better at allowing righteous anger
We need to get better at doing things about it instead of farting rage into the Internet.
Also true. Farting rage is easier so its all people do
That is frustrating. I would counter those people that being passionate is not the same thing as extremist media personalities that literally profit off outrage. It’s okay to hear and react to things, but we shouldn’t all be open fucking sores that flip out over literally every single thing we encounter like an autistic toddler: all emotion, no perspective, can’t be reasoned with, etc. That’s the Republican Outage Machine…
we shouldn’t all be open fucking sores that flip out over literally every single thing we encounter like an autistic toddler: all emotion, no perspective
What happens when I live in a country where more perspective just means witnessing more atrocities?
Do you have an example where “more perspective just means witnessing more atrocities”? I think you’re thinking of “awareness”.
There’s definitely an argument for limiting "doom and gloom news for ones own mental health…
Do you have an example where “more perspective just means witnessing more atrocities”?
I spend a couple of hours a day in the NICU as a new father. It’s an experience I’ve never had before, so I’m learning what it means to be a parent.
Recently, one of the women who I’d seen at the bed next to mine on a daily basis for months stopped showing up. Her baby was attended to by a nurse.
I find out from one of the staff that the mom was flagged for intoxicants in her system at birth. She was reported to CPS. They had come into the NICU while she was feeding the baby the prior day and the CPS official had pulled her out of the room, scolded her for being an addict, and forbad her from reentering to see her child. She was then removed from the building by security, screaming and crying.
This story is tragic as told. But as a new father, it carries a much more rarified horror.
There’s definitely an argument for limiting "doom and gloom news for ones own mental health…
This isn’t simply “the news”. It’s a certain consciousness of the world around you that you develop through lived experience.
I would argue he created a fuckton of value for those that paid him.
Billionaires and the ownership class were the big winners of Limbaughs legacy and the same could be said of the Faux “news” primetime peanut gallery…
Obligatory: I FUCKING HATE PROPAGANDISTS!
Limbaugh’s dead? I guess it’s been years since I thought of him last.
He died of lung cancer from all the cigar smoking after decades to claiming that smoking doesn’t cause cancer.
I wouldn’t wish for anyone’s death, but I can certainly celebrate it after the fact.
He’s also the reason no conservatives believe in climate change. He started the meme that it’s a socialist conspiracy to extract money out of the US. So her didn’t only not contribute anything worthwhile, he actively worked to make money at the whole world’s expense.
That’s okay, after filling out a USPS online change of address form I’m now wishing for the death of DeJoy, I can add a random conservative pundit to the list no problem to make up for your lax hate game.
I hadn’t thought of him since the last time somebody trashed him. That is his legacy. He is like Joseph McCarthy in the 50’s. Just another example of what not to be.
Yeah the problem is new hate mongers keep getting born
Rush knew that when he was saying controversial or maddening things that his numbers went up.
The day he died:
