Political Randomness

[Tao]

This came up a few years ago and IIRC my understanding is that the reasoning is that if your the sitting President and needed some advice, the number of people who've been in a similar situation is pretty small, so being able to turn to the person that had the job before you is deemed helpful. To that end keeping the previous President somewhat informed about the state of affairs is likewise helpful. I think up until now, concerns over a former President in regards to safeguarding information and maintaining national security wasn't at issue. How times have changed.

[Kraken]

I wonder if the president-reject extended that courtesy to Obama. We know that trump himself didn't pay attention to briefings, so maybe he figured Obama would be just as bored and uninterested.

[hepcat]

President Biden calling Trump for advice is hilarious to me. The response would always just be “You know I had more people at my inauguration than Obama, right?”

[Daehawk]

I think even with Covid measures that Biden had more at his than Grump.

[Carpet_pissr]

President Biden calling Trump for advice is hilarious to me. The response would always just be “You know I had more people at my inauguration than Obama, right?”

“I’ll consider helping you with my genius advice if you promise to investigate the Hillary email thing...again. And yourself. And Obama. Especially Obama.”

[Daehawk]

Biden - "Hello ex President Trump. I've called toda......

Trump - "Have you seen that kid that mowed my lawn!? He owes me $10!"

[Holman]

I can imagine Biden prank-calling Trump for advice while Obama, Bush, and both Clintons stand around stifling their laughter.

"Listen, Donald, I'd really like to hear your thoughts on the Freedonia situation. There's a bunch of Marxists running the place!"

Spoiler:

[Jaymann]

Yo Stimpy, here is a comprehensive article on the idiotic school renaming frenzy in San Francisco. Yes Virginia, there are also crazy excesses on the Left.

New Yorker article

Washington’s name was struck because he held slaves, Lincoln’s because of his policies toward Native Americans. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s name will be removed from a school, owing to the decision, when she was San Francisco’s mayor, in the nineteen-eighties, to replace a Confederate flag that was part of a Civic Center display and had been taken down by a protester. (A spokesperson for Feinstein said that the city’s parks department replaced the flag “on its own accord.” She later had it replaced with a Union flag.) Some of the committee’s recommendations have received more criticism than others: Paul Revere Elementary School will be renamed because of his role in the Penobscot Expedition of 1779, an assault on a British fort that the committee claimed, incorrectly, was intended to colonize the Penobscot people.

Effing Dianne Feinstein doesn't pass scrutiny.

[Kraken]

That kind of thing is why people want to stick it to the libs.

[Daehawk]

We can never move forward as long as our heads are up the past' ass. Always looking behind us instead of to the future.

[Daehawk]

That kind of thing is why people want to stick it to the libs.

cant blame them for feeling that sometimes

[stimpy]

but I think the people that took action were just waiting for an excuse, any excuse, to act out their fantasies. Just like most rioters and looters.
In the end, people are responsible for their own actions, lemmings are not.

Just like the one guy in the Lincoln Project. Although their leaders actually did speak out against him. So I'm not sure why you tried to associate his actions with the entire Lincoln Project by calling out it in your post instead of the one man who did those horrible things.

Because we all know when one person does something bad, it reflects on all those around him who may have supported him at one point in time......

It does if they don’t call him out on it, yes. Thanks for the addendum. I had forgot to mention that. In light of the last four years, it’s an important and damning addendum.

According to this addendum, they knew about it many months before it came to light and did nothing about it. So yeah........damning addendum......

[hepcat]

You should call Sydney Powell and Rudy Giuliani and get on this.

I'll get the Jewish Space Lasers prepped!

[Pyperkub]

I wonder if the president-reject extended that courtesy to Obama. We know that trump himself didn't pay attention to briefings, so maybe he figured Obama would be just as bored and uninterested.

He tried it, and all he could understand when Obama answered was blah, blah, blah Hillary.

[$iljanus]

No backsies !

A GOP donor gave $2.5 million for a voter fraud investigation. Now he wants his money back.

As the wise Nelson would say...Ha Ha!

[Defiant]

Rush Limbaugh, conservative media icon, dead at 70 following battle with cancer

[Trent Steel]

No thoughts. No prayers.

So moving on...

[Archinerd]

I've just progressed through the stages of grief in record time.

[Jaymann]

Thanks for not giving him his own thread. If you were wondering if evil exists in the world, RL is the masters thesis.

[Z-Corn]

Satan must have needed a piece of shit so he called him home.

[Smoove_B]

Rush Limbaugh was a terrible human being in life, and I refuse to abide by the convention that his death absolves him from criticism for his legacy of bigotry.

[LordMortis]

Rush Limbaugh was a terrible human being in life,

Eulogy. End.

[Holman]

Limbaugh did tremendous harm to America. I spit on his memory.

[Pyperkub]

As a big fan of The Philadelphia Story “The time to make up your mind about people, is never.” While people are still alive, there is always an opportunity for redemption, IMHO. He never did, in my book, but I'd have been happier if he had redeemed himself before dying and take no joy in that failure. RIP Goodbye, Rush Limbaugh.

(edited RIP to Goodbye). Maybe he'll get another shot at redemption somewhere. I remember Benny in Niven/Pournelle's Inferno (fun SF novel about a dead SF novelist trying to escape Dante's Inferno). IMHO, Limbaugh's solidly frozen in the Ninth Circle off Hell right now.

[Jaymann]

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"Have you ever noticed how all newspaper composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?" - Rush Limbaugh, 10/8/90

Have you ever noticed how all racist fat bastards resemble Rush Limbaugh?

[Smoove_B]

As a big fan of The Philadelphia Story “The time to make up your mind about people, is never.” While people are still alive, there is always an opportunity for redemption

That's correct. And after being given a terminal cancer diagnosis, he leaned into MAGA as hard as he could and continued his pattern until his final moments.

He died having seen Trump voted out of office. I'll end it there.

[Daehawk]

I hope he is one person that got to take it all with him so the devil can shove it all up his ass and light it in fire.

[Alefroth]

The world is a little bit better today.

[Daehawk]

I just realized Trump moved to Florida and it IS The Orange State.

[hepcat]

No thoughts. No prayers.

So moving on...

My heart goes out to the viagra manufacturers who kept Limbaugh’s suitcase full during those trips to the Dominican Republic. It’s going to be a rough summer for them.

[Holman]

That's correct. And after being given a terminal cancer diagnosis, he leaned into MAGA as hard as he could and continued his pattern until his final moments.

Not only that, but he leaned into COVID skepticism so that thousands of fellow Americans would suffer medically along with him.

Dig an outhouse on his grave.

[hepcat]

Christ, Fox News front page is literally wall to wall Limbaugh ass sucking.

[hitbyambulance]

about three decades too late, but i'll take it

[malchior]

Christ, Fox News front page is literally wall to wall Limbaugh ass sucking.

Yep oh and of course a random story about Bette Midler saying that the Texas outages are God's punishment for Cruz and Cornyn because that's legitimate news.

[dbt1949]

I remember when I was in the army and the news was all bad and we would all say....How bad can it get? What are they going to do, draft me and send me to Vietnam?

[Jaymann]

Bout time.

Rush Limbaugh died, age 70.
Have nothing good to say about him.

A truly despicable creature:

Have nothing good to say about him.

You already did, though.

When someone makes a career out of hate, it's not going to be a shock when people wave goodbye at the end.

I used to listen to him about 20-25 years ago. He didn't seem so bad then. I'll say goodbye to that Rush.

He was just as bad back then.

I won't celebrate his death but the world is a better place without him in it.

Other than his death announcement I only remember one other feel good story about him. The time he was caught smuggling Viagra from Jamaica.

Don't you speak falsely of Jamaica. He was busted smuggling Viagra from the Dominican Republic.

Wife had a more diplomatic reaction than I did: "I guess I feel sort of sorry for his wife." Then she learned that he'd had four wives, and didn't feel as sorry.

More likely the cancer came down with stage 4 Limbaugh.

This is a tragic loss! Think of all the tax revenue the IRS won't be getting in the future!

On second thought, high income frequently does not equate to high taxes paid... maybe not such a great loss.

Just Wow! Your hypocrisy is stunning. If a famous person from the left died and some of us posted attack trash like this, you'd be outraged. I can hear it now, "He hasn't even been dead for 1 day and you're attacking him! Have you no shame? Can't you keep your politics out of it? Let his family at least bury him first, etc., etc., etc."

It was recommended to me in another thread that I should stop listening to certain media outlets that support conservative thinking. I'm going to suggest that all of you need to stop listening to the garbage spewed by the main stream media and actually consider listening to the other side too!

I don't agree with everything Rush ever said. That is true of any conservative host or politician. He had his (sometimes major) flaws. He was not a perfect person. But, I guess many of you must be based on your personal attacks on him.

Here's what I wrote on another site as a proper RIP notice.

"Rush died yesterday.

He'd been fighting lung cancer for awhile now. The statement that his wife gave at the beginning of his show was excellent. I don't know how she kept from crying.

I heard him referred to yesterday as the Babe Ruth of broadcasting. I couldn't agree more. He was the greatest broadcaster of all time, like Ruth, he changed forever the way the game was played.

He made no bones about being a biased speaker for the conservative cause. He was not ashamed to be so.

He will be sorely missed."

Let us know when the next bigoted, racist hate monger on the Left dies and I will be happy to pillory him/her. On day one.

[Skinypupy]

Let us know when the next bigoted, racist hate monger on the Left dies and I will be happy to pillory him/her. On day one.

^This

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Your concern is noted.

[Exodor]

Let us know when the next bigoted, racist hate monger on the Left dies and I will be happy to pillory him/her. On day one.

I'm having trouble coming up with a comparable figure on the left. Bill Maher, I guess, at times? He's about 1/10 as objectionable as Limbaugh. Maybe Louis Farrakhan?

I won't shed any tears when we lose either of them.

[Alefroth]

That someone can overlook his hatred and bigotry and merely mention he was a great broadcaster says a lot about that person.

[dbt1949]

Was he a GREAT broadcaster?
Was Hitler a GREAT leader?
I have to question your use of the word "great" here.