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CL’d at the death:
We’ve got power! The blessed juice. We were down for 46 hours.
My nebulizer works! I fired down a 3 ML shot of Albuterol right into my lungs. I’ll take another hit in an hour.
We got down to 8 degrees the last two mornings in South Austin after 6” of snow. I have never seen a major city paralyzed like this in my entire life. We have NO snow-moving/salting trucks in town.
TXDOT is completely overwhelmed. The roads they are responsible for in the City, (Congress Ave, Lamar, Ben White, Koenig, Barton Springs/Riverside, South 1st Street), haven’t been touched.
It’s been an omnishambles. Have I mentioned we haven’t had power for 46 hours?
Basically like the pre-election national polls. Biden is a very bland politician.
— Dingers (@_Dinger_s) February 17, 2021
re: #2 austin_blue
Good to hear you have electricity again.
I wonder what political fallout, if any, there will be from this episode.
The blame-the-windmills game will only go so far. It sells TV time, but of course it’s not the real problem.
There has to be some Texans who know what the real problem.
GFS expected lower atmosphere temperature anomalies for the next two weeks, shows the significantly below normal temps in the south central part of the country continuing for another 48 hours or so, then changing to just a bit below normal.
But rejoice, by the end of the month the same region will be in a heat wave!
re: #4 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Good to hear you have electricity again.
I wonder what political fallout, if any, there will be from this episode.
The blame-the-windmills game will only go so far. It sells TV time, but of course it’s not the real problem.
There has to be some Texans who know what the real problem.
And a working heater! Even a gas heater needs the juice.
As for political fallout, some numbers:
Austin hasn’t been this cold since 1989;
We haven’t had this much snow since 1966;
It appears that we haven’t had this much snow, followed by continuous below freezing temperatures, since the Comanches were running the State and before records were kept.
We haven’t been above freezing for the past three day,s in fact, out of the mid-twenties.
It’s a century event. And it looks like we’re going to get an ice storm tonight that may drop a 1/2” on exposed surfaces. Which means means our electricity may be short-lived.
So yes, there’s going to be a shitpot of finger pointing, but, to repeat: It’s a century event.
But can you really expect municipalities to pay several hundred thousand dollars each for a fleet of bespoke vehicles that will slowly rot before needed? It’s a great public policy question (and the answer is NO. What you need is to equip your dump trucks to have snow plows attached).
We got a bit of rain these past few days here on the on the strait. We’re now up to 4.23” since July 1st.
❄️As freezing temps continue in Texas, @forthood opened a warming center for troops who’ve lost heat/water off-post. Hundreds of Soldiers are opening their homes for fellow troops & families in need. #PeopleFirst #WinterStorm #TexasBlackout https://t.co/xONLNJeiXv pic.twitter.com/IDNW97RUcB
— Myles Caggins (@MylesCaggins) February 17, 2021
re: #3 Dread Pirate Ron
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I don’t expect Biden’s poll numbers to wow us, but I also don’t expect him to drop into the abyss that recent Repub presidents have experienced. And the reason is because the Dem base doesn’t get off on “controversy,” they don’t elect guys who promise to make the job of their administration pissing off as may people as possible.
I will admit that I am no “fan” or even any great admirer of Biden. But I supported and voted for him because I found him the better candidate, who, unlike his opponent, is qualified, experienced and mentally stable.
Meteorologists in Germany are calling predicting a warm spell and calling it the Franzosenfrühling, or “French Spring”. Temps well above 60°F.
I may wee myself…
re: #11 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Meteorologists in Germany are calling predicting a warm spell and calling it the Franzosenfrühling, or “French Spring”. Temps well above 60°F.
I may wee myself…
Temps got up to 68°F here today by midday, but have since crashed back down to 34°F and won’t get above 50°F until the weekend. A typical Virginia Beach winter: bipolar.
re: #12 Targetpractice
Temps got up to 68°F here today by midday, but have since crashed back down to 34°F and won’t get above 50°F until the weekend. A typical Virginia Beach winter: bipolar.
you mean you also get the Antarctic Vortex?
re: #13 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
you mean you also get the Antarctic Vortex?
Apparently so. Though it appears that we got our one big snowstorm this year and the coming weeks will just be long stretches of rain with short peaks of sunlight in-between.
checking in over at newsmax to see what the latest RW talking points are, at I guess it is the Kamala vapors:
Vice President Harris Raises Eyebrows as She Fields Presidential Calls With World Leaders
If you suspected Joe Biden was merely a transitional president, you might be inclined to see proof in the fact that Vice President Kamala Harris has taken on what’s traditionally a presidential duty: phone calls with foreign leaders.
As I recall, it was Dick Cheney who ran the damn country while Dubya paraded up and down flight decks in his pilot suit, but, well…we know why this could be perceived as eyebrow-raising by some.
Asshole of Assholes Mayor Tom Boyd used “Bottom line” twice in his screed. He hit the send button right after pounding out his last period.
Boyd is equating his current whiners with those OTHER whiners who constantly whine for more while never doing anything productive. Racist.
re: #122 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
I present: The asshole of assholes, Tim Boyd, now former mayor of Colorado City, Texas (pop. 4000)
re: #16 Ming5000
Asshole of Assholes Mayor Tom Boyd used “Bottom line” twice in his screed. He hit the send button right after pounding out his last period.
Boyd is equating his current whiners with those OTHER whiners who constantly whine for more while never doing anything productive. Racist.
“The strong will survive and the weak will parish”
I guess that means they will move to Louisiana?
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BTW, extreme cold hit Texas in 2011 with a similar but smaller scale result, so this failure is a result of failing to act on known shortcomings coming out of 2011.
If you click through here you can get to the FERC report on the 2011 SW and ERCOT blackouts.
Page 144 has a table which I think shows that 2 GW of wind was lost because of low temperature limits and blade icing.
Arstechnica: About 20.8 GW went down for other reasons, like freezes affecting sensing lines. I think that’s basically all coal/gas/nuke. JK Spruce Unit 2 took almost 800 MW of coal generation down with it for example.
re: #3 Dread Pirate Ron
Basically like the pre-election national polls. Biden is a very bland politician.
Do you know who wasn’t a very bland politician?
I will simply point out that it is possible to be charismatic, fiery and still competent and qualified, but that is not always the case…
Texas doesn’t want FEMA camps. Will they accept FEMA warming shelters?
Upper 20’s in the lower Mitten tomorrow. It is going to feel goooood.
re: #23 Decatur Deb
Texas doesn’t want FEMA camps. Will they accept FEMA warming shelters?
They will include Socialist indoctrination.
Couldn’t figure out why my cat was being extra clingy last night, insisting on coming up and sleeping next to me. I realized that even with the space heater blowing on me, her usual spot at the bottom of the bed is more exposed to the draft from the next room (which is present because I have to leave the door slightly open so she can go use the facilities, or have a snack out of the food bowl, but that is another story!). It was just a little over 60, which is almost as cold as it gets in here, over another apartment. apparently my girl is fine down to around 63, but when it gets to 60, suddenly I’m necessary waste heat for her to take advantage of!
Man, I’m feeling for TX right now. There are a lot of old people in serious trouble. Imagine being old and cold when it’s 70 degrees. My MIL would be under several blankets when I was hotter than hell.
re: #27 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Man, I’m feeling for TX right now. There are a lot of old people in serious trouble. Imagine being old and cold when it’s 70 degrees. My MIL would be under several blankets when I was hotter than hell.
I have a ton of relatives and their support units located in Lubbock. I just hope they’re okay. My aunt was active yesterday on Facebook, so I’m guessing they still have power.
re: #28 steve_davis
I have a ton of relatives and their support units located in Lubbock. I just hope they’re okay. My aunt was active yesterday on Facebook, so I’m guessing they still have power.
A buddy of mine from Dallas was down on Galveston island winterizing his vacation home when the cold wave struck, he wrote to say that it was 40 degrees in the house and they were huddling under blankets to keep warm.
He is a native of Phoenix. But his wife is from Moscow, so at least she should be used to it.
WTFITSICE…
Georgia considering “a panel of three physicians” to evaluate girls’ genitals for school sports / LGBTQ Nation
A new bill being considered in Georgia’s legislature would create “a panel of three physicians” to examine the “reproductive organs” and “genetic makeup” of girls in an effort to ban transgender girls from participating in school sports.
Traumatizingly inspecting kids privates to own the libs. Yes, it can cause sexual trauma for those subjected to it. What the fuck is next? Obligatory virginity checks?
re: #31 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The sweet sixties sound from the movie How to Murder Your Wife:
..
“Divorce Italian Style” - at a time when divorce was not legally allowed, left only one option…
Morning Lizardim from the wild north country as we scoot out from under the thumb of the polar vortex. Current air temperature is -6 degrees F (-21.1 degrees C), but by Monday of next week, we will be above freezing and I’ll be out in the driveway doing maintenance on fishmobiles, since all of them are yelling obnoxiously at me that it’s time to change the oil. Yes, I knew that already, but I’m not going to do it when the air temperature isn’t going to break 0 degrees F for three straight days. How go things among the lizardfolk? Are the Texans in the house doing okay? I feel particularly badly for them, since ERCOT has had multiple chances to spend the money for freezing-weather upgrades on their equipment, and they’d rather blame the libs.
‘You Go Back Where You Came From,’ Says Texan Pointing Gun At Snowman Trespassing On Property https://t.co/T7OHCABfSP pic.twitter.com/vnWAzDkwBH
— The Onion (@TheOnion) February 16, 2021
re: #34 Teukka
Bullshit. Snowman is welcome because he is white.
The author of the letter was Karen Otto, Mr. Kinzinger’s cousin, who paid $7 to send it by certified mail to Mr. Kinzinger’s father — to make sure the congressman would see it, which he did. She also sent copies to Republicans across Illinois, including other members of the state’s congressional delegation.
“I wanted Adam to be shunned,” she said in an interview.
re: #36 Nyet
Republicanism isn’t just a cult, it is a mental illness.
barrel house boogie: yes, audience, we all understand it’s in 4/4. But it’s not your 4/4, so STOP FUCKING CLAPPING ALONG WITH THE MUSIC.
Looks like there’s going to be a pretty (if fleeting) sunrise over frozen Lake Superior.
Good morning, all.
Texas mayor quits after saying residents are ‘lazy’ amid outages
No one owes you or your family anything; nor is it the local governments responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim, it’s your choice!” he wrote. “The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!”
re: #41 Dangerman
Texas mayor quits after saying residents are ‘lazy’ amid outages
He said in his idiotic double-down statement that he had already tendered his resignation, so the headlines are coming across as a bit disingenuous.
re: #41 Dangerman
Texas mayor quits after saying residents are ‘lazy’ amid outages
No doubt he is well prepared for emergencies himself, especially the hordes of “others” who will flock to Colorado City from, uh, someplace “when the welfare checks stop.”
re: #42 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Btw, the locals pronounce “Colorado City” as “ColoRAYdo City” to make sure no latte-sipping, wrong bathroom using urban libs make the mistake of associating it with the accursed lib hellhole state of Colorado.
re: #44 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Btw, the locals pronounce “Colorado City” as “ColoRAYdo City” to make sure no latte-sipping, wrong bathroom using urban libs make the mistake of associating with the accursed lib hellhole state of Colorado.
That sounds sufficiently Texas.
re: #42 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
He said in his idiotic double-down statement that he had already tendered his resignation, so the headlines are coming across as a bit disingenuous.
Assuming you believe him, which, since he’s a republican, means fuck trust, verify.
re: #46 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Assuming you believe him, which, since he’s a republican, means fuck trust, verify.
That is a completely valid point.
re: #41 Dangerman
Why did he quit? Isn’t that the Republican motto? The only government assistance they like are tax cuts and hand outs to the mega wealthy.
California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity.
Biden/Harris/AOC want to make CA’s failed energy policy the standard nationwide.
Hope you don’t like air conditioning! https://t.co/UkKBq9HkoK— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 19, 2020
Alexa, show me what happens when you let Democrats control energy policy. https://t.co/PLtgofajlg
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) September 8, 2020
So Cruz crenshaw and others lambasted California last summer.
Yeah its coming home to roost
But
Look at the suggestions From the gov and mayor back then.
Reduce use. Don’t waste power. 78 degrees AC wow.
Hardly the same as “no electricity”.
Hey Ted and Dan: Let’s see you try to own the libs with this…
It’s looking like power plants in Texas unplugged to avoid skyrocketing natural gas spot market rates that went to hundreds of $$ to avoid losses. @ERCOT_ISO has now passed an emergency order allowing them to charge consumers those spot market prices. Capitalism at its finest. pic.twitter.com/xxaHsSbgCX
— Joel Montfort 🌊 (@jmontforttx) February 16, 2021
re: #41 Dangerman
Texas mayor quits after saying residents are ‘lazy’ amid outages
“The weak will parish!”
Which means they will move to Louisiana, I guess.
re: #44 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Btw, the locals pronounce “Colorado City” as “ColoRAYdo City” to make sure no latte-sipping, wrong bathroom using urban libs make the mistake of associating it with the accursed lib hellhole state of Colorado.
As I understand the Arkansas River is pronounced Ar-KAN-sas so (especially in the upper reaches ) as not to confuse it with the state.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
As I understand the Arkansas River is pronounced Ar-KAN-sas so (especially in the upper reaches ) as not to confuse it with the state.
When I lived in Houston everyone pronounced Humble TX as Umble.
BERlin, NH
GalVESton, IN
San Jose, IL pronounced San Joes
Versailles, IN (Ver-sales)
I love this stuff.
Old Atlantic City Trump casino coming down in about 5 minutes.
re: #55 Barefoot Grin
BERlin, NH
GalVESton, IN
San Jose, IL pronounced San Joes
Versailles, IN (Ver-sales)I love this stuff.
People around here call the town of Jamestown up the road Jimtown.
re: #44 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Btw, the locals pronounce “Colorado City” as “ColoRAYdo City” to make sure no latte-sipping, wrong bathroom using urban libs make the mistake of associating it with the accursed lib hellhole state of Colorado.
But of course they do
re: #54 Eventual Carrion
When I lived in Houston everyone pronounced Humble TX as Umble.
All those unused ‘aitches’ migrated north and east
Anyone been watching Money Heist on Netflix or just us Dangers?
Were enjoying it
McConnell’s peeps hit back
Portraying Trump as the child he is
Said Janet Mullins Grissom, McConnell’s first chief of staff: “Trump going total mean girl ought to feed the cable beast for weeks.”
Said Billy Piper, another former top McConnell aide: “It seems an odd choice for someone who claims they want to lead the G.O.P. to attack a man who has been unanimously elected to lead Senate Republicans a history-making eight times. But we have come to expect these temper tantrums when he feels threatened — just ask any of his former chiefs of staff or even his vice president.”
two men enter no one leaves
Let em fight
re: #56 Barefoot Grin
Old Atlantic City Trump casino coming down in about 5 minutes.
Thanks for the heads up - I would have missed it!
Meanwhile dems hard at actual you know work
8 first-term House members explain how they plan to prioritize racial justice
re: #56 Barefoot Grin
Old Atlantic City Trump casino coming down in about 5 minutes.
That was oddly satisfying.
re: #60 Dangerman
Anyone been watching Money Heist on Netflix or just us Dangers?
Were enjoying it
I have heard good things about it but have not looked into it. I must admit that it is hard for me to find anything on Netflix to watch alone (I enjoyed The Dig and News of the World, but otherwise I usually find myself just watching Star Trek reruns.)
If I am watching with someone, I am a lot more open: my teenage daughters got me into I, Zombie, which I would never watch on my own, but I can appreciate it for the witty writing and the music puns: a pet-friendly Internet café called “Mutt Bowl Surfers” or a youth center called “Helton Shelter”…
re: #64 ipsos
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Make boom fall down!
ETTGBD
everything trump touches gets blowed up
re: #67 Jebediah, RBG
ETTGBD
everything trump touches gets blowed up
Remember, his properties are heavily leveraged, his cash flow is interrupted and soon his creditors will come knocking…China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and God knows who else…
re: #67 Jebediah, RBG
ETTGBD
everything trump touches gets blowed up
Many people - many fine people - said you couldn’t blow up a building like this. But it was the biggest, most beautiful implosion you’ve ever seen. Strong men were coming up to me with tears in their eyes, saying “Sir…”
re: #64 ipsos
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Make boom fall down!
Trump couldn’t get 40 years out of a building he built
Let alone a successful casino in it
re: #66 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I have heard good things about it but have not looked into it. I must admit that it is hard for me to find anything on Netflix to watch alone (I enjoyed The Dig and News of the World, but otherwise I usually find myself just watching Star Trek reruns.)
If I am watching with someone, I am a lot more open: my teenage daughters got me into I, Zombie, which I would never watch on my own, but I can appreciate it for the witty writing and the music puns: a pet-friendly Internet café called “Mutt Bowl Surfers” or a youth center called “Helton Shelter”…
The major plot lines are clever
It side tracks a little some times
And can also be quite exciting..our hearts were racing last night
It is dubbed and subtitled into English but the words aren’t exactly the same
And some of the voices don’t quite match the faces (imo)
no zombies, apocalypses or other dystopian necessary
It might just hook you in pretty quick
The kitzinger family:
Or
We know we said we weren’t talking to you ever again, but we like the attention this incident is bringing us. There’s not a shred of class among the dozen of us.
Aaaaaand boom goes the dynamite…Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino imploded in Atlantic City, NJ pic.twitter.com/1mRUpJHyd6
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) February 17, 2021
The implosion of the former Trump Plaza is oddly satisfying because it hits all the bases. A casino that was bankrupted multiple times by Trump, was always a second fiddle to other more professionally run casinos, and showed that Trump was anything but a competent businessman. He was a snake oil salesman, and wrecked businesses everywhere he went.
A new Economist/YouGov poll finds a decline in voters calling themselves Republicans since November (from 42% to 37%).
re: #50 jeffreyw
Caption: “Dammit Harold! Stop sneaking up behind me!”
Texas is still suffering through massive blackouts due to the cold weather. Right wing politicians love calling out California when they had their blackouts last summer, but are now engaging in cognitive dissonance as their state freezes.
What are the differences?
California strained under demand and wildfires and hot weather stressed the system to the breaking point. State put rolling blackouts in place to keep system afloat.
Texas? They prioritized penny pinching and not spending anything on winterization despite fact that state periodically experiences winter. So when really cold and snowy weather hit, they had massive blackouts as 40% of the state’s oil/gas/coal plants went offline. Right wing lunatics pointed to wind power as the problem, but wind power actually outperformed other types as less wind power went offline and more wind power capacity was restored faster than the oil/gas/coal plants did.
The state blacked out because of the lack of proper oversight, prioritizing profit over production during a cold snap, and inadequate ability to import electricity from neighboring grid.
It had nothing to do with a Green New Deal (which isn’t a law but aspirational). It had nothing to do with wind power turbines freezing up (which makes for a great visual if you’re a right winger) because watching a coal plant not producing power is just a picture of a coal plant. It just isn’t dramatic.
There’s no green new deal in place that caused the disastrous Texas blackouts. That’s entirely the result of GOP and right wing lunacy, ignoring basic infrastructure, refusal to winterize because penny pinching was seen as virtuous.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) February 17, 2021
re: #55 Barefoot Grin
DuBois, PA (Du-boys)
Duquesne, PA (Du-ques-knee)
We have the Ver-sales thing as well.
re: #75 Dangerman
The kitzinger family:
Or
We know we said we weren’t talking to you ever again, but we like the attention this incident is bringing us. There’s not a shred of class among the dozen of us.
It’s really kind of quaint to see people putting pen to paper and even writing in cursive!
Even this is better than waking up to the first outrage tweet of the day
Let me end the suspense: Biden won’t get everything right, and he will do things I and many people will disagree with. But if you believe we need to make America GOOD again, he’s coming from a place of decency and integrity that is paramount and consequential.
— S.E. Cupp (@secupp) February 17, 2021
re: #79 lawhawk
Save money now, when it breaks later, blame the Democrats and take federal money to fix it. Win/win.
re: #83 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Save money now, when it breaks later, blame the Democrats and take federal money to fix it. Win/win.
Another privatize profits and socialize debts approach.
re: #84 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Another privatize profits and socialize debts approach.
Socialism is great, when it’s taking money from everybody and giving it to you.
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) February 17, 2021
re: #80 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
DuBois, PA (Du-boys)
Duquesne, PA (Du-ques-knee)We have the Ver-sales thing as well.
The Duquesne pronunciation still throws me.
“All of them, with one exception, picked up the phone and called me.”
— President Joe Biden, quoted by Politico, saying he’s talked with all but one of his living predecessors since taking office.
re: #83 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Save money now, when it breaks later, blame the Democrats and take federal money to fix it. Win/win.
Unless you’re Puerto rico
re: #85 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Socialism is great, when it’s taking money from everybody and giving it to you.
Easier than working for a living //
re: #89 Dangerman
Unless you’re Puerto rico
Well, yeah, because it’s meant to apply to rich old white male Republicans only, just like everything else. Only the privileged class get privileges, that’s why they’re called privileged.
re: #89 Dangerman
Unless you’re Puerto rico
Weird. The GOPers in Texas were quick to bash Puerto Rico after the island was absolutely wrecked by Hurricane Maria and the power grid was absolutely destroyed.
Yet they’re mostly silent on the blackouts except to demand power producers get the lights back on (which was due to their penny pinching and refusal to winterize for the periodic event known as winter).
re: #88 Dangerman
“All of them, with one exception, picked up the phone and called me.”
— President Joe Biden, quoted by Politico, saying he’s talked with all but one of his living predecessors since taking office.
It’s even better when you watch the clip.
re: #87 Barefoot Grin
The Duquesne pronunciation still throws me.
Wojciehowicz
Spell it just like it sounds
My granddad (or the guys on Ellis Island) changed the spelling of the family name, replacing the cz in the original with a ch, like in “church”
Problem came when I returned to Germany where the ch has a guttural pronounciation (like Channukah). I am used to just spelling it out as Germans never get it right.
I even recall a woman saying “How do you expect me to spell it when you don’t pronounce it correctly?”
re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
My granddad (or the guys on Ellis Island) changed the spelling of the family name, replacing the cz in the original with a ch, like in “church”
Problem came when I returned to Germany where the ch has a guttural pronounciation (like Channukah). I am used to just spelling it out as Germans never get it right.
I even recall a woman saying “How do you expect me to spell it when you don’t pronounce it correctly?”
George Carlin
You can spell your name smith and pronounce it “jenofsky” if you want
They’re all silent, never mind
re: #87 Barefoot Grin
The Duquesne pronunciation still throws me.
Western Pennsylvania is full of them due to the early exploration and limited trade settlement of the area by the French.
Pentagon report reveals inroads white supremacists have made in military. This report was long overdue; Trump’s white nationalist policies have devastating consequences for military https://t.co/xLyoIYL3g6
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) February 17, 2021
re: #97 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Western Pennsylvania is full of them due to the early exploration and limited trade settlement of the area by the French.
There’s a little town between Bloomington and Nashville Indiana called Gnaw Bone. No one really knows where the name came from, but some speculate that it was originally from the French Narbonne.
re: #96 Dangerman
George Carlin
You can spell your name smith and pronounce it “jenofsky” if you wantThey’re all silent, never mind
It’s spelled “Luxury Yacht” but it’s pronounced “Throatwarbler Mangrove!”
re: #101 Barefoot Grin
There’s a little town between Bloomington and Nashville Indiana called Gnaw Bone. No one really knows where the name came from, but some speculate that it was originally from the French Narbonne.
Right near French Lick. Been through there a long ways back.
re: #86 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
My Cavalier King Charles spaniel is like that. She wants to be out in the cold. Always.
If I don’t shave her regularly she won’t go near anyone, she just lies on the tile floor.
She was always very aloof and anti-social. Until we started shaving her. Once we started shaving her, she turned into a completely different dog. Much happier and friendly. Very loving. Honestly, it was like a switch was thrown from Ignore Me to LOVE ME.
re: #103 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Right near French Lick. Been through there a long ways back.
Gisela, Arizona was named after the heroine in the book Countess Gisela by E. Marlitt. The town schoolteacher was reading the book to her students when she was asked by her husband, the postmaster, to help name the little settlement.
She asked the school children what names they liked, and they voted to name their new town Gisela. (Which Germans would pronounce as GEE-ze-la)
The students didn’t know how to pronounce the name correctly, so they called it Guy-SEE-la.
re: #97 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Western Pennsylvania is full of them due to the early exploration and limited trade settlement of the area by the French.
And those Native Americans, Monongahela
Weirdly English borrow words constantly but never alphabet characters.
And apparently was too cool for thorn, yogh, and the long s so didn’t invite them to modernity.
re: #107 The Ghost of a Flea
Weirdly English borrow words constantly but never alphabet characters.
And apparently was too cool for thorn, yogh, and the long s so didn’t invite them to modernity.
Thorn was part of English but was lost because the first printing sets that came over from the continent did not contain them.
re: #103 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Right near French Lick. Been through there a long ways back.
Yep. The swells from Chicago and Indy used to go down by train to vacation in French Lick and West Baden Springs. Nashville became a small artist colony.
The Claudian letters been sitting by the overpass with a handwritten sign reading “WILL REPRESENT PHONEMES FOR CASH” for two millenia, in the mean time C somehow gets half the workload of K, S, and CH.
re: #76 lawhawk
The implosion of the former Trump Plaza is oddly satisfying because it hits all the bases. A casino that was bankrupted multiple times by Trump, was always a second fiddle to other more professionally run casinos, and showed that Trump was anything but a competent businessman. He was a snake oil salesman, and wrecked businesses everywhere he went.
The perfect metaphor of the tRump presidency.
Stubbornly and futilely using the long S in written communication I have earmarked for “late in life eccentric behavior.”
Hey MAGA, you know when you buy stuff from Infowars? This is what it goes toward. While many Texans can’t afford heat, Alex Jones takes a helicopter around. pic.twitter.com/YrhWzXVQ8c
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) February 17, 2021
Wife has her old 3-ring binder recipe book out. Looks like we will be having something different for dinner tonight. When this happens I never ask what she is making, I just wait to be surprised. She has her fancy slicing machine out so who knows what it will be.
re: #76 lawhawk
The implosion of the former Trump Plaza is oddly satisfying because it hits all the bases. A casino that was bankrupted multiple times by Trump, was always a second fiddle to other more professionally run casinos, and showed that Trump was anything but a competent businessman. He was a snake oil salesman, and wrecked businesses everywhere he went.
I went to the Taj Mahal once to try out for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
It was as tacky and ugly as you can imagine.
re: #94 Dangerman
Wojciehowicz
Spell it just like it sounds
How it sounds in Polish? Voi-che-kho-vich?
re: #114 🌹UOJB!
I’m listening to “Knowledge Fight” the podcast that dissects Alex Jones, and the last two days have been fascinating because Jones’ prepper wannabe ass didn’t prepare for the storm and his studio doesn’t have power, so you can listen to him turn his entire repetitive conspiracy story-time show to establish that (1) everyone else is dealing with the snow worse than him, (2) because it’s inconvenienced him the snow and blackouts are not the fault of people he likes, but people like Bill Gates.
I’ve never listened to long patches of him before the last couple of weeks, and wow he’s the same creature as Trump, like the exact same kind.
The “new comments” button isn’t working for me right now. Anyone else having this problem?
re: #120 Eclectic Cyborg
The “new comments” button isn’t working for me right now. Anyone else having this problem?
Works here.
Anyone else get the feeling that the now ex-mayor of Colorado City, TX was elected in large part because he vowed to stop handouts and make “those” lazy people work to survive?
Fucking classic “I never thought the leopards would eat my face when I voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party!”
Trump attacks McConnell.
Bannon attacks Trump.
Republicans attack other Republicans who voted to impeach Trump.
Abbott, Cruz & Cronyn fail Texas.
COVID dropping.
Vaccinations increasing.
Biden town halling… not golfing. ⛳️ 🏌️♂️— Billy Baldwin (@BillyBaldwin) February 17, 2021
re: #122 Mattand
Anyone else get the feeling that the now ex-mayor of Colorado City, TX was elected in large part because he vowed to stop handouts and make “those” lazy people work to survive?
Fucking classic “I never thought the leopards would eat my face when I voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party!”
If he had an opponent, there would have been talk about how we need to take care of each other, and that would not have won any votes.
Okay, I’m back. Apparently FireFox decided to be stupid this morning but thankfully, I have other browsers.
re: #125 Nyet
While at WH, Steve Bannon concluded Trump was suffering from “early stage dementia” & later started a covert campaign for invoking the 25th A to remove him, veteran @60Minutes producer Ira Rosen tells @dklaidman and me in new @SkullduggeryPod. (Hes got B’s texts to back it up.) https://t.co/z3w5UGwBvS
— Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff) February 16, 2021
re: #127 lawhawk
That’s an extraordinary claim. I’ll wait till evidence is published and the actors react.
re: #127 lawhawk
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Getting Pence into the presidency would have been a better route for them for a few years.
re: #128 Nyet
It is indeed extraordinary claims. Bannon is a shitmonger and anarchist, so I take his claims with a grain of salt, but these reporters have good reputation. If they’re reporting this is the case, I’m inclined to believe that Bannon did push this behind the scenes.
re: #130 lawhawk
It is the sort of thing that Bannon would do just because he is that sort of shitweasel.
re: #87 Barefoot Grin
The Duquesne pronunciation still throws me.
I lived a couple hundred yards from Duquesne U, watched a lot of Duquesne Beer go down. It’s always been “Du-Kane” in my family microdialect.
re: #126 Eclectic Cyborg
Okay, I’m back. Apparently FireFox decided to be stupid this morning but thankfully, I have other browsers.
I have noticed lately that FF starts doing all sorts of weird stuff if there is a pending update that needs to be installed, forcing you to shut it down and reload so it can do the update. Really starting to piss me off as I generally have at least 3 windows open at the time.
re: #26 steve_davis
Couldn’t figure out why my cat was being extra clingy last night, insisting on coming up and sleeping next to me. I realized that even with the space heater blowing on me, her usual spot at the bottom of the bed is more exposed to the draft from the next room (which is present because I have to leave the door slightly open so she can go use the facilities, or have a snack out of the food bowl, but that is another story!). It was just a little over 60, which is almost as cold as it gets in here, over another apartment. apparently my girl is fine down to around 63, but when it gets to 60, suddenly I’m necessary waste heat for her to take advantage of!
I have a heated pad for my cat. It heats to about 90 degrees and is only turned on by the weight of the cat. I also have ‘purr pad’s for the cat, which reflect her heat back at her. Of course right now she is laying on a purr pad which is set on a box while an electric space heater blows hot air at her.
re: #130 lawhawk
He remained seemingly loyal after the ouster and advocated overthrowing the election. Why would he have behaved 180 to that while still in power?
re: #132 Decatur Deb
I lived a couple hundred yards from Duquesne U, watched a lot of Duquesne Beer go down. It’s always been “Du-Kane” in my family microdialect.
That’s how I always heard it anywhere I went.
Duke beer……no
re: #14 Targetpractice
Up in the DC region we are awaiting our “rain-> freezing rain-> snow-> freezing rain-> rain-> then freeze overnight” storm which is forecast for ZeroDarkThirty Thursday. Thursday and Friday commutes should be… entertaining.
re: #130 lawhawk
It is indeed extraordinary claims. Bannon is a shitmonger and anarchist, so I take his claims with a grain of salt, but these reporters have good reputation. If they’re reporting this is the case, I’m inclined to believe that Bannon did push this behind the scenes.
Or Bannon actually made the claims to the reporters, but they are simply lies. He can’t be trusted for anything.
Chairborne Ranger runs into trouble when the power goes off - as told by his brother.
so my eldest brother, who is a moron, has been playing soldier with his moron friends in the deserts of texas for the last year preparing for the collapse of civilization if biden won (lol). they were burying food and ammo stashes out in the desert, running drills, crazy stuff
— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) February 16, 2021
re: #140 Dr. Matt
Or Bannon actually made the claims to the reporters, but they are simply lies. He can’t be trusted for anything.
Can you fake texts?
BREAKING: U.S. Justice Department charges three North Korean computer programmers in a broad range of global hacks, including targeting banks and a movie studio. Prosecutors say the programmers are members of a North Korean military intelligence agency. https://t.co/kV8PRFu9I8
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 17, 2021
re: #143 BlueSpotinAL
Can you fake texts?
This is the only one I have found and it heavily depends on interpretation:
“You need to do the 25th amendment piece. By the way brother I never steer you wrong.”
re: #141 Backwoods_Sleuth
The Pale Stale Ale with the Foam on the Bottom
Worked in D.C. for a few years with a mix of western PA people and people not from there in the late 1980s.
Were eating one night as a group in a place in Georgetown that had a very broad beer list, a huge display of beer cans*, and at the time was pretty much the place to find “not from here” beers for sale.
One of the non-Pennsylvanians had never had an Iron City. But they currently did not have any Iron City on stock. So someone ordered an Olde Frothingslosh, opened it, sniffed it, said “Iron City Light”, and gave it to the guy to drink.
* - Their display included a lot of various Iron City promotional cans since they did runs with pictures of the current Pirate, Penguin, or Steeler team on them.
Edit: Was the “Brickskeller” in Dupont Circle. Appears to have closed in 2010 or so. Reputation for mediocre pub food, awful service, but a large beer selection.
Millions of Texans are sleeping in their winter coats, burning furniture, and exposing themselves to carbon monoxide by sleeping in their cars.@GregAbbott_TX shouldn’t waste time blaming others for his failures on Fox News—he should be doing his job. https://t.co/KDQ1ZyIqpQ
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) February 17, 2021
re: #145 Nyet
“their only can opener is electric.”
top survivalist skillz
I’ve had a Swiss Army Knife since high school. It includes a can opener. I never go anywhere on a trip without it. Why? Because you never know when you need to cut something, open something, or otherwise fix something.
These dumbasses don’t have basics? LMAO.
The story of Fatima Yechbergh, the fictional woman on the can of Olde Frothingslosh.
A sample from the ad campaign:
She’s from a small town outside Pittsburgh. It’s considerably smaller since she left.
re: #147 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Worked in D.C. for a few years with a mix of western PA people and people not from there in the late 1980s.
Were eating one night as a group in a place in Georgetown that had a very broad beer list, a huge display of beer cans*, and at the time was pretty much the place to find “not from here” beers for sale.
One of the non-Pennsylvanians had never had an Iron City. But they currently did not have any Iron City on stock. So someone ordered an Olde Frothingslosh, opened it, sniffed it, said “Iron City Light”, and gave it to the guy to drink.
* - Their display included a lot of various Iron City promotional cans since they did runs with pictures of the current Pirate, Penguin, or Steeler team on them.
During my high school/early university years in Greater Cincinnati, Old Frothingslosh featured Fatima’s glamour photo. I still have two empty cans somewhere.
re: #136 Nyet
He remained seemingly loyal after the ouster and advocated overthrowing the election. Why would he have behaved 180 to that while still in power?
These people are such honorless turds, how do you do the math on:
1. Bannon is exactly the kind of person who would suddenly decide Trump was demented and needed to be pushed out…but not because of normal reasons, but shitty Bannon reasons.
versus
2. Bannon is also exactly the kind of person to lie to the press now to distance himself from Trump, because he’s also a uselless reactionary tit but is embarrassed by the particular Trump brand of useless reactionary tit-ness.
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
If Gov Abbott wants to investigate the reason for power outages, he should look in a mirror first.
View from the front porch this morning after snowplow cleared the driveway. #Snowmageddon2021 pic.twitter.com/GwRKcRzljq
— #BlueWave Blueberry Pie (@Pie_Overlord) February 17, 2021
Also like Trump…nothing Bannon says should be repeated without confirmation from at least one other source.
re: #145 Nyet
I have a plastic 5-shelf thing in the next room. Top shelf has paper towels and toilet paper and some cleaning supplies. Next shelf is diced tomatoes, beans and spaghetti and meatballs. Next one is corn, milk, rice, oats, pasta, crackers, chicken and granola bars. On the bottom shelf is water.
Notably, most of those foods do not *require* cooking.
Also on the shelf is a HAND-CRANK CAN OPENER BECAUSE I CAN BRAIN GOOD
re: #149 lawhawk
I’ve had a Swiss Army Knife since high school. It includes a can opener. I never go anywhere on a trip without it. Why? Because you never know when you need to cut something, open something, or otherwise fix something.
These dumbasses don’t have basics? LMAO.
THIS. I always keep a SAK in my glovebox. Has come in handy many a time, especially on long road trips.
I got no defense. 🤷🏻♂️
A blizzard strikes Texas & our state shuts down. Not good.
Stay safe! https://t.co/kBPGrGHmvI— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) February 17, 2021
re: #160 Sufficient unto the day…
I have a plastic 5-shelf thing in the next room. Top shelf has paper towels and toilet paper and some cleaning supplies. Next shelf is diced tomatoes, beans and spaghetti and meatballs. Next one is corn, milk, rice, oats, pasta, crackers, chicken and granola bars. On the bottom shelf is water.
Notably, most of those foods do not *require* cooking.
Also on the shelf is a HAND-CRANK CAN OPENER BECAUSE I CAN BRAIN GOOD
We’d be in a little bit of trouble food-wise in an extended power outage, because we don’t have a lot of ready-to-eat stuff. Water is a no-brainer with a massive gravity feed through the entire town; the water tower is built at the highest point in the town, which is a pretty significant boost for most houses, including mine. I do have two hand-operated can openers, and a fairly wide array of Swiss army knives that I keep on my person or in a few known locations. Flashlights used to be a problem - specifically, keeping batteries in them - but now we have cell phones and multiple ways to recharge them.
re: #60 Dangerman
Anyone been watching Money Heist on Netflix or just us Dangers?
Were enjoying it
Silly fun. We enjoyed it as well.
re: #155 BlueSpotinAL
If Gov Abbott wants to investigate the reason for powere outages, he should look in a mirror first.
It is important to raise a stink about frozen wind turbines and whine about how the Green New Deal will have us all living in lean-tos and wiping our butts with dried leaves.
re: #162 Belafon
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I got no defense.
Surprised he didn’t blame the Green New Deal.
Doesn’t make up for trying to destroy the Republic, but good on him.
In other scientific news, you were right. Your dog is smarter than some people.
For more info about the earlier vid with dog using buttons to communicate - TikTok’s ‘talking’ dog excites scientists studying canine intelligence https://t.co/9EGj1zdCtk
— M_Crouton (@m_crouton) February 17, 2021
re: #155 BlueSpotinAL
If Gov Abbott wants to investigate the reason for power outages, he should look in a mirror first.
In that interview he claims that alternative energy sources accounts for 10% their power grid and then goes on to blame alternative energy sources for their blackouts. Truly a fucking idiot.
re: #169 Dr. Matt
In that interview he claims that alternative energy sources accounts for 10% their power grid and then goes on to blame alternative energy sources for their blackouts. Truly a fucking idiot.
It was discussed in earlier threads that there are cold weather kits for wind turbines but nobody bothered with them.
re: #170 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It was discussed in earlier threads that there are cold weather kits for wind turbines but nobody bothered with them.
Only Dem Libturds need cold weather kits.
What the rest of us are seeing here is that public utilities need to be run on sound, transparent economic principles, but not simply on the basis of lowest possible costs and highest possible ROI.
What the GOP sees is frozen wind turbines.
Here are some ideas from one of the saner “prep” channels.
With any sort of heating inside - ALWAYS HAVE A CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR!
Surviving a Winter Power Outage - How to Stay Warm
theprovidentprepper.org
Best Heat Sources to Use During a Power Outage
Some context…
These folks are from the part of the prepping community that simply wants to ensure that their household is able to function in the event of an emergency. I particularly find them useful because they actually try most of what they put into videos and report fairly honestly.
Many are from the Mormon community where it is also church doctrine. The term “Provident’ is often an identity buzzword used within that community.
I am not a member of the Mormon religion. However, I have found the prepping information coming from their community extremely useful.
Rush Limbaugh has assumed room temperature. Now Fox will carry his passing 24/7 as if he was a past President.
re: #168 nines09
In other scientific news, you were right. Your dog is smarter than some people.
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It’s true, and my dog eats turds!
re: #174 Ace Rothstein
Limbaugh has assumed room temperature.
YOU’RE KIDDING.
No, wait. Please tell me you’re serious.
re: #176 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Yes. His wife just announced it on his radio show. He kicked it this morning.
re: #177 Ace Rothstein
Yes. His wife just announced it on his radio show. He kicked it this morning.
It’s about goddamn time! That’s one obituary I will not read with sadness. God damn that man for making me cheer for death.
re: #174 Ace Rothstein
Limbaugh has assumed room temperature.
Having just recently lost a loved one, I can find no joy in this news. Yes, he was a piece of shit and was responsible for may of this Nations ills. But he also has a family who are hurting right now. May the Goddess smile down upon and comfort them.
re: #180 Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire
Having just recently lost a loved one, I can find no joy in this news. Yes, he was a piece of shit and was responsible for may of this Nations ills. But he also has a family who are hurting right now. May the Goddess smile down upon and comfort them.
I don’t find joy in it, but I do note that he spewed hate right up to the end, and the world is better without him.
This [reactions to Limbaugh’s death] will all be about how mean and vindictive liberals are…and I don’t care.
re: #182 Barefoot Grin
This [reactions to Limbaugh’s death] will all be about how mean and vindictive liberals are…and I don’t care.
Was he a victim of the Green New Deal?
re: #182 Barefoot Grin
This [reactions to Limbaugh’s death] will all be about how mean and vindictive liberals are…and I don’t care.
Let them say I’m mean and vindictive. I’ve gone through 30 years of personal hell because of that man and the poisonous effect he had on my father. This one is personal to me, and I know that makes me a bad person, and I will admit to that. I can be a bigger man with other deaths, and take them peacefully and sympathize with their families. Not this one. I’m sorry.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Was he a victim of the Green New Deal?
No, chomping cigars and telling his audience how harmless it was.
re: #183 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Was he a victim of the Green New Deal?
Isn’t everyone? I’ve heard it will be crammed down our throats or we’ll be taking it up the ass by totally normal people who are not at all obsessed with that sort of imagery.
re: #184 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Let them say I’m mean and vindictive. I’ve gone through 30 years of personal hell because of that man and the poisonous effect he had on my father. This one is personal to me, and I know that makes me a bad person, and I will admit to that. I can be a bigger man with other deaths, and take them peacefully and sympathize with their families. Not this one. I’m sorry.
Luckily my parents avoided him. Not true for many of their friends, though, who got perverted through Rush and then Fox into their old age. I’m sorry for your personal experience. I can understand the poison.
Limbaugh contributed more than any other to the Us vs Them bumper sticker politics that led to the terrorist attack on January 6.
Every creepy, scary thing that happened to me as a kid, and to other kids I knew, was dismissed or mocked by adults mimicking Rush Limbaugh, chapter and verse.
That’s all he did; churn out excuses for grown ass men to be cruel and lascivious.
From the sewer nozzle itself
Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70 https://t.co/xQ4ErOlXMq
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 17, 2021
re: #110 The Ghost of a Flea
The Claudian letters been sitting by the overpass with a handwritten sign reading “WILL REPRESENT PHONEMES FOR CASH” for two millenia, in the mean time C somehow gets half the workload of K, S, and CH.
Every “C” in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.
re: #186 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Isn’t everyone? I’ve heard it will be crammed down our throats or we’ll be taking it up the ass by totally normal people who are not at all obsessed with that sort of imagery.
Rush gave us “Feminazis” and “environmental whackos”. In fact I was about to mention that he was blaming the latter on the big California energy crisis of 2000-01 when most of that was due to market manipulation by people like Dubya’s friend “Kenny Boy” Lay of Enron.
re: #190 nines09
As I predicted, Fox is covering it non-stop as we speak. The rotating images, chyron, etc.
So, after being away a few days, I’m back.
Here in Czech Republic, we’ve apparently entered the “good luck, folks - you’re on your own” phase of pandemic mitigation as it increasingly seems increasingly the hapless and inept Czech government, headed by its hapless and inept Prime Minister, no longer knows what to do. Political paralysis and gridlock are the order of the day as the PM’s government no longer has a functioning majority in the Parliament. And on Monday, the Constitutional Court here is very likely to rule that closing retail establishments is, in fact, illegal under the Czech Constitution…even in a state of emergency. Speaking of states of emergency, the current one expires on the 28th and, because there is no majority consensus to renew it, that’s the end of that.
So, as they say, interesting times.
re: #132 Decatur Deb
I lived a couple hundred yards from Duquesne U, watched a lot of Duquesne Beer go down. It’s always been “Du-Kane” in my family microdialect.
Memories of Rege Cordic and Bob Trow goofing on “Do-Kess-Knee” beer!
I just got a text from my wingnut cousin telling me that Limbaugh died. I replied “Who?” No response.
I have precisely nothing good to say about the now dead Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh has died.https://t.co/4ROmgXIbsb
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) February 17, 2021
We are better off with him gone. His propaganda outfit misinformed the masses for decades and made them immune to facts, logic, or reality.
re: #194 Ace Rothstein
As I predicted, Fox is covering it non-stop as we speak. The rotating images, chyron, etc.
Of course. Fox would not be the empire of filth it is without “pioneers” like Limbaugh.
I will have a drink and do a little dance today.
He can’t hurt anyone anymore.
re: #174 Ace Rothstein
Rush Limbaugh has assumed room temperature. Now Fox will carry his passing 24/7 as if he was a past President.
Hell has one more carnival barker.
BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh, the Human Megaphone Who Hijacked the GOP, Dead at 70 https://t.co/ZDNNQR9Iul
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 17, 2021
re: #174 Ace Rothstein
Rush Limbaugh has assumed room temperature. Now Fox will carry his passing 24/7 as if he was a past President.
באבוד רשעים רנה משלי י”יא
“When the wicked perish, there is great joy” Proverbs 10:11
re: #201 lawhawk
I have precisely nothing good to say about the now dead Limbaugh.
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We are better off with him gone. His propaganda outfit misinformed the masses for decades and made them immune to facts, logic, or reality.
On the bright side, he lived just long enough to see Biden elected POTUS, Harris elected as VPOTUS and see the GOP lose the House and Senate.
So there’s that.
I don’t like being happy about people dying, but when it’s someone with as few redeeming qualities as Limbaugh, I just can’t help it.
Conservatives bitching that Democrats are being disrespectful about Limbaughs death coming in 3…2…1…
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
Celebrating Nazi jackoffs dying is not morally bankrupt. It is expected behavior by people who wish for a better more peaceful world.
Now his widow can take all the money and go marry a black woman.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 17, 2021
re: #162 Belafon
Teddy! Shut down! It will happen again…you guys don’t seem to learn anything.
re: #208 Eclectic Cyborg
I don’t like being happy about people dying, but when it’s someone with as few redeeming qualities as Limbaugh, I just can’t help it.
It’s like when Ted Bundy met his end in Old Sparky. On the one hand, I’m not a big fan of the death penalty. On the other hand, I said, “Ted Bundy’s dead, huh? Yeah, that’s a real fuckin’ tragedy. So guys, should we head over to Denny’s and grab a booth before it gets too crowded?”
I can’t even get into the larger systemic harm Rush did with his infantilization of his audience and how it effected societal discourse.
The Cato of lickspittles, the Demosthenes of gropers and froteurs.
re: #201 lawhawk
I have precisely nothing good to say about the now dead Limbaugh.
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We are better off with him gone. His propaganda outfit misinformed the masses for decades and made them immune to facts, logic, or reality.
I have something good to say!
I just made a big score on my Dead Pool List with him at the #1 slot!
re: #206 The Pie Overlord!
משלי י”יא באבוד רשעים רינה
“When the wicked perish, there is great joy” Proverbs 10:11
Thanks, VB. I feel better knowing that there is Scriptural authority for my lack of grief at El Rushbo’s passing….
re: #207 Dr Lizardo
On the bright side, he lived just long enough to see Biden elected POTUS, Harris elected as VPOTUS and see the GOP lose the House and Senate.
So there’s that.
And hopefully, his idol Trump will be an in-person guest on a near-future show of his, wherever he will be broadcasting from (and I’m guessing his next studio won’t be having any “freezing” issues).
The discussion on Limbaugh’s demise reminds me of this story:
(Referring to the death of Wendell Phillips who died in Boston on February 2, 1884.)
Boston Post.—The Hon. E. R. Hoar did not love Phillips over much in his later years. It is now reported of him that while the remains of the great agitator were awaiting the final ceremonies a distinguished Cambridge gentleman asked him if he was going to attend Wendell Phillips’s funeral. “No,” was the reply, “but I approve it!”
re: #217 The Ghost of a Flea
I can’t even get into the larger systemic Rush did with his infantilization of his audience and how it effected societal discourse.
The Cato of lickspittles, the Demosthenes of gropers and froteurs.
Limbaugh enthralled the people around me in Ohio around 1985-ish. I listened a little and quickly became disgusted. I recall the particular odious use of the term “feminazi”.
I will piss on Rush Limbaugh’s grave on everyone’s behalf w/ no apologies nor regrets because motherfuck everything there is about that unrepentant, racist piece of shit who did more to destroy American political discourse than anyone except maybe Trump and Richard Mellon Scaife.
— Homie Wan Kenobi killed Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) February 17, 2021
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” - Mark Twain
BREAKING: Rush Limbaugh has died at age 70. https://t.co/LRyoh5LXlh pic.twitter.com/JQcdCqGvnr
— NBC News (@NBCNews) February 17, 2021
re: #221 Ming5000
Limbaugh enthralled the people around me in Ohio around 1985-ish. I listened a little and quickly became disgusted. I recall the particular odious use of the term “feminazi”.
I was a kid, and on one hand I didn’t listen to him and found him odious, but when I was in my 20s and finally outside of my home context I realized how much of his rhetoric I had absorbed from the men around me and integrated into myself.
re: #219 Jay C
Thanks, VB. I feel better knowing that there is Scriptural authority for my lack of grief at El Rushbo’s passing….
And hopefully, his idol Trump will be an in-person guest on a near-future show of his, wherever he will be broadcasting from (and I’m guessing his next studio won’t be having any “freezing” issues).
I’d like to imagine that Satan is on the phone with God right now, saying, “NO, DAMMIT, I DON’T WANT RUSH LIMBAUGH HERE STINKIN’ UP THE PLACE! I GOT STANDARDS, YOU KNOW! YOU TAKE HIM!!”
re: #224 (((Archangel1)))
I read this with great satisfaction.
Right wingers are really active today: Joe Biden was trending awhile ago and it was filled with zingers from righties about things he supposedly said in his Townhall last night (tbf, there’s also a smattering of Brie Brie Bernie types too); and now the same people are all beside themselves over Rush’s death. The Biden thing felt coordinated, but these folks genuinely think that Rush was a hero.
re: #54 Eventual Carrion
When I lived in Houston everyone pronounced Humble TX as Umble.
Here in NYC, Houston Street is pronounced HOW-stun.
re: #222 The Pie Overlord!
Turn his gravesite into a public toilet. He didn’t serve mankind while he was alive, make him worth something in the afterlife.
Rush Limbaugh died. Rightwingers on Twitter are heaping praise on him.
I challenge you to read the things he said about minorities, black people, gay people, women, sexual consent, torture, climate, even the Jan 6th attack, and find things to praise in there.
I challenge you.— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 17, 2021
My thoughts and prayers are for the African-American Community, LGBT Community, Women, and other marginalized groups Rush Limbaugh demonized and dehumanized for the past 30 years.
re: #230 sagehen
Here in NYC, Houston Street is pronounced HOW-stun.
In GA, Houston (as in Houston County) is also pronounced HOW-stun; Louisville is also pronounced Lewis-ville.
re: #224 (((Archangel1)))
“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” - Mark Twain
This is true.
There was some mogul from the Gilded Age who had to be buried in concrete because his family was afraid that his workers (whom he treated like shit) would dig up the body and murder it over and over again.
I won’t say it’s great or meaningful - hated the fucker when he was alive. Glad he will no longer be spreading racism and hatred over the airwaves. May he be quickly forgotten and all he stood for rejected. https://t.co/FX1w8Y9vLP
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 17, 2021
re: #216 Dr Lizardo
It’s like when Ted Bundy met his end in Old Sparky. On the one hand, I’m not a big fan of the death penalty. On the other hand, I said, “Ted Bundy’s dead, huh? Yeah, that’s a real fuckin’ tragedy. So guys, should we head over to Denny’s and grab a booth before it gets too crowded?”
Like when one of the Koch brothers died.
Not into celebrating anyone’s death. Maybe that will change if Needy dies, but yeah.
All the money he got for tearing us apart did nothing. He died with a horde of money. Whee.
A terrible terrible person.
re: #243 plansbandc
Not into celebrating anyone’s death. Maybe that will change if Needy dies, but yeah.
All the money he got for tearing us apart did nothing. He died with a horde of money. Whee.
A terrible terrible person.
You can’t take it with you.
Almost a year ago I did my first live standup show. I made a joke about Rush who was recently diagnosed. I called him a hall of fame racist and the punchline was I “look forward to reading his obituary.” got some laughs and a few did he really go theres. Proud of my first gig.
I have another online show Friday. May have to revisit the topic. I’m sure that I will be raging when I read his obit. “He was controversial.” No he was a fucking racist.
He deserves all the scorn he receives. I don’t give a fuck if his family misses him, if you don’t want people to say bad things about you, don’t be an asshole.
re: #239 The Ghost of a Flea
Oщean
If only the English language would man up and annex some consonants.
We have enough, we just poorly use them c q x g
Oh, and bring back þ!
re: #239 The Ghost of a Flea
Oщean
If only the English language would man up and annex some consonants.
We could repurpose c. It’s completely redundant.
Rush Limbaugh has been inspiring hate in America for 50 years. Using his own words, here’s why you shouldn’t give a fuck about him or his death. pic.twitter.com/XnzCNL8B5k
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) February 17, 2021
Here’s to hoping Dan Patrick will retire from politics here and go back to radio think he can take Rush’s place.
re: #247 Belafon
We could repurpose c. It’s completely redundant.
I think the natural thing would be to use c where we currently do ch.
— Roy Edroso (@edroso) February 17, 2021
re: #246 IngisKahn
We have enough, we just poorly use them c q x g
Oh, and bring back þ!
Damn straight we should bring back thorn.
re: #249 Belafon
Here’s to hoping Dan Patrick will retire from politics here and go back to radio think he can take Rush’s place.
How else is he going to come up with the $3 million he owes John Fetterman?
In many ways, all roads lead to Dead Fuck Rush for why we are a hyperpolarized country. Dead Fuck Rush was one of the modern origins of political hate speech which in-turn helped launch 100s (1000s?) of like-minded am hate radio mongers which over-time expanded to FM, satellite radio, fox, podcasts, the interwebs, and beyond. Adios, Dead Fuck Rush. Adios.
re: #235 TedStriker
In GA, Houston (as in Houston County) is also pronounced HOW-stun; Louisville is also pronounced Lewis-ville.
That’s right, come to think of it. I lived near How-stun Mill Rd. in Decatur, GA for a time.
Rush is dea— my neighbors are freezing here in Texas because Republicans wanted to be cheap with our infrastructure, with no money because Republicans refuse to help with Covid relief.
— Blue in Red Texas (@RockwallBlue) February 17, 2021
re: #237 The Pie Overlord!
There was some mogul from the Gilded Age who had to be buried in concrete because his family was afraid that his workers (whom he treated like shit) would dig up the body and murder it over and over again.
Or when Mao was lying in state some people came back day after day “to make sure he was still dead” some joked.
re: #207 Dr Lizardo
On the bright side, he lived just long enough to see Biden elected POTUS, Harris elected as VPOTUS and see the GOP lose the House and Senate.
So there’s that.
We wanted that. We wanted him to see them not just elected, but installed, and starting to reverse the horrible policies of the last administration.
re: #235 TedStriker
In GA, Houston (as in Houston County) is also pronounced HOW-stun; Louisville is also pronounced Lewis-ville.
I’ve always pronounced it “Lou-a-vul.”
re: #256 Barefoot Grin
That’s right, come to think of it. I lived near How-stun Mill Rd. in Decatur, GA for a time.
There’s a town near me called Nuh-vay-duh, not Ne-va-duh (as in bat) or Ne-vah-duh (as in ball).
Here’s an old one from the asshole: “I tell people don’t kill all the liberals. Leave enough so we can have two on every campus - living fossils - so we will never forget what these people stood for.”
All in on mass murder of political opposition.
Looks like Hell’s radio station just filled their noon to three eastern slot
— Thanks For Sharing Jerk (@Thx4SharingJerk) February 17, 2021
Because I am strange, over the years I’ve developed 4 different writings systems for phonetic English.
The original one is just a modification of the Latin script that can be used easily on computers. I take all my notes in it.
Bêkez î æm ſtrânj, over ðe yêrz îv devœlept 4 difrœnt rîtiñ ſiſtemz für fenœtik Iñglix.
Ðe erijenel wen iz jeſt e madefikâxen ev ðe Lætin ſkript ðæt kæn bê yuzd êzelê ån kempyuterz. Î tâk ål mî nots in it.
re: #174 Ace Rothstein
Rush Limbaugh has assumed room temperature. Now Fox will carry his passing 24/7 as if he was a past President.
I’m sure they’re having quite the “Welcome Home” party in Hell today. Must have been one of Old Scatch’s best field operatives.
re: #266 IngisKahn
Because I am strange, over the years I’ve developed 4 different writings systems for phonetic English.
The original one is just a modification of the Latin script that can be used easily on computers. I take all my notes in it.
Bêkez î æm ſtrânj, over ðe yêrz îv devœlept 4 difrœnt rîtiñ ſiſtemz für fenœtik Iñglix.
Ðe erijenel wen iz jeſt e madefikâxen ev ðe Lætin ſkript ðæt kæn bê yuzd êzelê ån kempyuterz. Î tâk ål mî nots in it.
I keep wanting to learn shorthand in part just because.
In 1991, my dad and I were in the car and he asked if I had ever heard Dead Guy. I said “no” so my dad turned him on. He was going on and on about the “sin taxes” that Washington wanted to pass, and he then said “If we’re going to have a sin tax, why don’t we tax people with AIDS?”
re: #250 The Ghost of a Flea
I think the natural thing would be to use c where we currently do ch.
Ya, the easiest things would be to make c always ch and x always sh, put q away for future use and stop the j g silliness.
re: #260 Ace Rothstein
I’ve always pronounced it “Lou-a-vul.”
That may be for the one in Georgia: I’ve always heard that the local pronunciation for the big one in Kentucky is more like “Lullvull”.
re: #271 Ace Rothstein
Rush Limbaugh had a regular radio segment where he would read off the names of gay people who died of AIDS and celebrate it and play horns and bells and stuff.
— Paul Elliott Johnson (@RhetoricPJ) February 17, 2021
Speak only good of the dead.
Rush Limbaugh is dead?
Good.*
*This joke originated with the death of other odious scumblob Roger Ailes, but what better way to troll environmentalist-haters than recycling?
On Futurama, the egotistical acting robot Calculon died and went to Robot Hell. He then proceeded to drive the Robot Devil insane just through the power of his irritating, self-centered rantings.
Calculon was so out-of-control even the devil himself hated him.
Just floating that out there.
Beware words like: provocative, polarizing, controversial, lightning rod, firebrand. Say what he did, say what he said, be clear about his legacy.
— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) February 17, 2021
re: #277 jaunte
Long time piece of shit who made mad paper denigrating people turns into worm pastry.
re: #269 Belafon
I keep wanting to learn shorthand in part just because.
Shorthand is cool, but it really is optimized only for quick writing. It usually takes up way more space and can be much harder to decipher if you make any mistakes.
Will he be buried or incinerated with/without his ashes being spread out?
If he’ll be buried, someone should put a toilet on top of his grave.
re: #277 jaunte
Our Corporate Controlled Conservative Press predictably starts the process to canonize Fat Fuck Rush. By Sunday he will be elevated to sainthood.
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“The strong will survive and the weak will parish”
I guess that means they will move to Louisiana?
Plaquemines
Shoutouts to Rush Limbaugh’s Wikipedia article pic.twitter.com/r7wJDeHsoB
— Grandmaster Charlotte 🟧 (@CharlotteCKT) February 17, 2021
During the swearing in of the new Congress in 1995, the Republicans made Dead Guy an honorary member.
re: #281 🌹UOJB!
boom
Just now: Former President Trump’s Atlantic City hotel is demolished.
Once a Boardwalk staple, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino has been closed since 2014. pic.twitter.com/DM7eBB3gEY— The Recount (@therecount) February 17, 2021
re: #284 Ace Rothstein
During the swearing in of the new Congress in 1995, the Republicans made Dead Guy an honorary member.
And Pizza Hut paid that Fat Fuck $1 million dollars to do a commercial for their stuffed crust pizza. I was really hoping that crap would plug his coronary arteries…
“Rush thought we won, and so do I. I think we won substantially” — Trump is using Rush Limbaugh’s death to push long-debunked lies about the election pic.twitter.com/IivzVhqG4W
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 17, 2021
re: #142 lawhawk
Chairborne Ranger runs into trouble when the power goes off - as told by his brother.
I have to say, you’re really not the most astute “survivalist” if you can come up with a solution to save all your food stored in your fridge and freezer during a power outage in the midst of record freeze enveloping your entire region.
their plan for cooking and heating during an extended power outage was natural gas, but like a lot of homes their gas service is out. the food in their freezer and fridge is already toast due to the power outrages, so they’re down to canned stuff, but there’s a catch.
— Jean-Michel Connard (@torriangray) February 16, 2021
re: #260 Ace Rothstein
I’ve always pronounced it “Lou-a-vul.”
Old joke:
How do you pronouonce the capital of Kentucky: Louisville or Louieville?
Answer: Frankfort
Rush Limbaugh dies. pic.twitter.com/7uu8xwM5Nw
— Republican Swine (@RepublicanSwine) February 17, 2021
Trump repeating his election lies as he pays tribute to Limbaugh on Fox: “You don’t know how angry this country is… We should have had it.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 17, 2021
Jesus.
I had bronchitis as a kid that was obviously because of the constant smoke exposure, and there wasn’t a moment of discomfort or debility where my dad…later to die of lung cancer…wasn’t fucking screaming Rush Limbaugh talking points at me.
I’m sorry. I’m actually kind of processing trauma right now. This dude I never met defined the vocabulary of so much of the bad shit that happened to me.
Like, I can’t even be angry at a corpse. But that there’s people who are going to try and claim he did anything constructive? They can fuck themselves forever.
re: #260 Ace Rothstein
I’ve always pronounced it “Lou-a-vul.”
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re: #288 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I have to say, you’re really not the most astute “survivalist” if you can come up with a solution to save all your food stored in your fridge and freezer during a power outage in the midst of record freeze enveloping your entire region.
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Well, if the weather is freezing you can just take all the food out of your fridge & freezer and keep it outside. It’s only a problem when the power goes out during the summer.
re: #288 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
An old friend of mine in the Portland, Oregon area finally got her power restored after an icestorm ripped through the area. She said power was out for a couple of days.
re: #284 Ace Rothstein
During the swearing in of the new Congress in 1995, the Republicans made Dead Guy an honorary member.
Trump also gave his bloated ass the Medal of Freedom last year.
re: #292 The Ghost of a Flea
Jesus.
I had bronchitis as a kid that was obviously because of the constant smoke exposure, and there wasn’t a moment of discomfort or debility where my dad…later to die of lung cancer…wasn’t fucking screaming Rush Limbaugh talking points at me.
I’m sorry. I’m actually kind of processing trauma right now. This dude I never met defined the vocabulary of so much of the big shit that happened to me.
Like, I can’t even be angry at a corpse. But that there’s people who are going to try and claim he did anything constructive? They can fuck themselves forever.
Yeah, you get me. I know, going forward, my dad is going to be like, “If Rush were still here, he would say…” Fuck him. He’s fucking dead, and I don’t give a shit what he’d say because it’s toxic as hell.
re: #294 The Pie Overlord!
Well, if the weather is freezing you can just take all the food out of your fridge & freezer and keep it outside. It’s only a problem when the power goes out during the summer.
Assuming you can also put it in a place that the local wildlife cannot access it as well.
BREAKING: Austin Water issues boil water notice for Southwest Austin and Lost Creek pic.twitter.com/K9YOAjenTv
— Phil Jankowski 🦇 (@PhilJankowski) February 17, 2021
re: #275 Interesting Times
Speak only good of the dead.
Rush Limbaugh is dead?
Good.*
*This joke originated with the death of other odious scumblob Roger Ailes, but what better way to troll environmentalist-haters than recycling?
RIP to Rush Limbaugh, died when Han Solo slashed him with a lightsaber and crawled inside his corpse for warmth.
— Gary Legum (@GaryLegum) February 17, 2021
re: #295 Dr Lizardo
An old friend of mine in the Portland, Oregon are finally got her power restored after an icestorm ripped through the area. She said power was out for a couple of days.
There was a news story this morning about a Fred Meyer store there throwing out perishable food due to the outage, but then bringing in security to make sure that food-insecure folks didn’t take any of it.
re: #299 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Assuming you can also put it in a place that the local wildlife cannot access it as well.
The garage.
I have done enough work in Purgatory for the sins of my right-wing past, but it’s important to share your experiences as inspiration to others to not go down the same road as you. I listened to that bastard every day from 1992 to probably 2002. It polluted my mind with nothing but sound bites about how bad the liberals were. There was not one second dedicated to actual policy. Ever. He had his moments where I did laugh out loud, I admit it. His Sen. Bob Torricelli updates with the Sopranos theme playing in the background was pretty damn funny. I’ll give him that. After Obama got elected, it was full metal straight to the depths of hell. In 2006, with the Iraq War/Afghanistan in total disarray, I started waking up. In 2010, my transformation was complete. I would tune in occasionally to spy, and he clearly had lost his fastball. He would leave hangers over the plate all the time; stuff that a quick Google search would prove to be flat out wrong. He was boring. Repetitive. Redundant. Now, he’s just another dead fat fuck.
re: #305 Ace Rothstein
I subscribed to his goddamn newsletter when I was in late high school and early college, before my liberalization started to set in. Why yes, I was an arrogant know-it-all incel bastard, why do you ask?
re: #302 jaunte
The banta tauntaun doesn’t deserve that comparison.
I’ve never seen so many heartfelt eulogies with the word fuck
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) February 17, 2021
re: #306 🌹UOJB!
Just announced where Rush’s ashes will be interred!
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That’s really disrespectful.
Outhouse serve a useful purpose in civilized society, unlike Limbaugh.
Who is dead.
re: #308 The Ghost of a Flea
A tauntaun, not a bantha. Neither deserve such a vile comparison though.
re: #309 The Pie Overlord!
Not gonna lie, I actually laughed out loud at my desk at that.
re: #311 (((Archangel1)))
A tauntaun, not a bantha. Neither deserve such a vile comparison though.
Yeah, I know a lot less Star Wars than I think I do.
Also, I’m mentally paralyzed by the thought of the Hoth yeti-thing trying to consume Rush Limbaugh and getting nicotine poisoning and diarrhea at the same time.
I used to tune into him in the late 90’s on AFN just to keep up with the latest RW talking points.
Remember those halcyon days under Clinton when the US government was actually running a budget surplus?
I recall Rush coming on and saying that it was “immoral” for the US government to take more from us than it needed to operate.
Only thing I can give him any credit for: he was one of the first to admit that the attempt to convict Clinton had failed and it was time to call it off. I even sent an e-mail to my (Republican) Arizona congressman quoting that statement.
Yes, tender conservatives, we’re going to fucking celebrate Rush Limbaugh’s death. He was a fucking monster, as harmful to the nation as any terrorist. Fuck him and fuck you for slavering over his every word for decades.
— The Rude Pundit (@rudepundit) February 17, 2021
Guaranteed Minimum Income: What Is It and How Is It Different From Universal Basic Income? by Jacqui Germain, Teen Vogue. Good article!
Today’s forecast. Fun. pic.twitter.com/6jw3bgtdTs
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 17, 2021
re: #317 jeffreyw
What is the item beside the chicken and the mac & cheese?
re: #315 The Pie Overlord!
Just wait until Trump chokes on a hamberder in his sleep.
Womp, womp.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 17, 2021
re: #307 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
I subscribed to his goddamn newsletter when I was in late high school and early college, before my liberalization started to set in. Why yes, I was an arrogant know-it-all incel bastard, why do you ask?
My dad bought me “See, I Told You So” for Christmas in 1995. The edges of the pages were covered in gold. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I look back at this and can see why I didn’t get laid that much.
“I’ll take ‘Tweets That Have Not Aged Well’ for 500, Alex.” https://t.co/yjCInGkxtj
— Arch (Jewish Space Laser Supervisor) (@Arch_LGF) February 17, 2021
re: #323 Ace Rothstein
My dad bought me “See, I Told You So” for Christmas in 1995. The edges of the pages were covered in gold. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. Now I look back at this and can see why I didn’t get laid that much.
Near the end of my conservative assholery, I asked for a copy of one of Ann Coulter’s books as a Christmas gift from my family. If I ever find it again, I am burning that thing.
If I ever think of Limbaugh, it will always be how my ‘independent’ friend started listening to him in the late 80’s, when we were late teens/early 20s. At first he and his buddy liked listening to the jolly fat man who made hippies cry. By the time my buddy was in his late 20’s/early 30’s, politically he was Archie Bunker.
Today, my friend swears he rarely listened to Limbaugh, although he still religiously listens to the Philly right wing station that carried him.
I get that people change as they get older, and this guy probably would have swing right regardless. But knowing that he was willingly digesting all of the garbage that Limbaugh was spewing always bums me out to a degree.
re: #324 (((Archangel1)))
Suffering through a day without incest porn really hit you hard I see.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) February 17, 2021
Unforced error? Famously combative with media, @GovRonDeSantis today says public criticisms about vaccine distribution in parts of Florida could divert vaccines to areas where there are no political criticisms of his efforts https://t.co/jqETqNjI9T pic.twitter.com/Idy4mfTJdk
— Ted Bridis (@tbridis) February 17, 2021
This is why it is *essential* that people get over the nonsensical compulsion to be civil towards and about terrible people.
The media will turn monsters into men of honor of left alone to do so. https://t.co/VxzVJjrYkZ— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 17, 2021
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A headline yesterday suggested that DeSantis could be rising up the ranks in the GOP and I guess this is indicative of why.
Fuck him and fuck you. https://t.co/lJtIpRKq5G
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 17, 2021
re: #179 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It’s about goddamn time! That’s one obituary I will not read
with sadness. God damn that man for making me cheer for death.
re: #313 The Ghost of a Flea
Yeah, I know a lot less Star Wars than I think I do.
Also, I’m mentally paralyzed by the thought of the Hoth yeti-thing trying to consume Rush Limbaugh and getting nicotine poisoning and diarrhea at the same time.
Don’t worry, Rush is now bantha poodoo.
//
re: #135 Barefoot Grin
Marietta, GA (May-retta)
Albany NY
Al-Bennie GA
Vienna Austria
Vy-Anna GA
Houston TX
Hows-ton County GA
re: #319 Ming5000
What is the item beside the chicken and the mac & cheese?
The very last of an Instapot batch of baked beans made with small dried red beans and smoked pork.
re: #299 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Assuming you can also put it in a place that the local wildlife cannot access it as well.
Well if the power’s out, Maybe the living room. ;-)
re: #314 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I used to tune into him in the late 90’s on AFN just to keep up with the latest RW talking points.
Remember those halcyon days under Clinton when the US government was actually running a budget surplus?
I recall Rush coming on and saying that it was “immoral” for the US government to take more from us than it needed to operate.
Only thing I can give him any credit for: he was one of the first to admit that the attempt to convict Clinton had failed and it was time to call it off. I even sent an e-mail to my (Republican) Arizona congressman quoting that statement.
Cause there’s never like an unplanned unforseen hurricane snow storm pandemic bridge failure, etc
re: #322 darthstar
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She could petition for a Mexican vacation
She is not handling being in jail well. https://t.co/9inwVkTZNh
— pam_cee52 (@PCee52) February 17, 2021
re: #330 Barefoot Grin
A headline yesterday suggested that DeSantis could be rising up the ranks in the GOP and I guess this is indicative of why.
While Biden sends aid to Texas without A word
re: #331 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Center right?
You are deluded
Fuck him and fuck you. https://t.co/lJtIpRKq5G
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 17, 2021
re: #177 Ace Rothstein
Yes. His wife just announced it on his radio show. He kicked it this morning.
Back in the 90s, I was channel surfing with my father and came across Rush’s TV show.
(This was before he started pronouncing schedule, “shed-dule.”)
Stopped to watch for a couple of minutes to see where he rated on the Marjoe scale, and my father commented, “all he needs to do is comb his hair forward and grow a mustache.
re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s right out of the Trump Playbook.
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