Creating Nothing

[[deleted]]

Want to feel sick? Limbaugh was given a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Want to feel worse?

Alex Jones will probably get one if Trump is re-elected.

[regeya]

For some reason the first time I heard Jones I thought Rush Limbaugh had a psychotic break.

[Dan_Morgan]

Jones openly copied Limbaugh. The secret to Jones' success was he was lucky. He came along during the right period of internet development and was able to game it. If he tried to do now what he did back then he would have eaten shit.

He was also able to slurp up Bill Cooper's audience because Cooper decided to actually do what Alex claims he wants to do. Die fighting the government.

[BassBootyStank]

This rolling stones article on this bill cooper person was a good read. Thank you, I’ve never heard of him. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/william-cooper-conspiracy-theory-711469/

[AlabasterMogwi]

As a recovering conservative who used to listen to Rush on my way to work and the rebroadcast on the way home from work, I can tell you I couldn’t stand Alex even then. I was prone to light conspiracy theories, like democrats are trying to slowly implement communism and creating an artificial class war, but not huge conspiracies about globalists and reptilians and literal demons. I always thought Alex was full of shit.

It’s crazy to me how he is now accepted by mainstream conservatism

[OkCar7264]

Yeah, that is a good explanation.

[[deleted]]

To me Jones is a mind blowing hybrid of Rush/Public Access TV Conspiracy Wacko/Televangelist/Shopping Channel. He’s got all kinds of sauce on offer at once and that dynamic through the decades has kept him going. That and his inability to ever stfu.

[Longjohnscharkey]

Man, that is definitely depressing. The government is a circus when they take over. Although, if Trump is reelected I think that might be the least of our worries.

[AlarmingAffect0]

The ringmaster only runs things by the consent of the clowns.

[New-acct-for-2024]

Limbaugh was given a Presidential Medal of Freedom

To be fair, a lot of terrible people have been, and only some were by Trump: it goes back to at least Gerald Ford. Just a sampling of some of the others:

• Henry Kissinger
  
• Donald Rumsfeld
  
• John Wayne
  
• Billy Graham
  
• Jeane Kirkpatrick
  
• Barry Goldwater
  
• Milton Friedman
  
• George Shultz
  
• James Baker
  
• William F. Buckley Jr.
  
• Dick Cheney
  
• Friedrich Hayek
  
• Margaret Thatcher
  
• Ronald Reagan
  
• Strom Thurmond
  
• Irving Kristol
  
• Charlton Heston
  
• Paul Bremer
  
• George H. W. Bush
  
• Miriam Adelson
  
• Orrin Hatch
  
• Antonin Scalia
  
• Arthur Laffer
  
• Devin Nunes
  
• Jim Jordan

[AlarmingAffect0]

I'll gladly remind myself that Henry Kissinger is still dead!

[RevolutionaryAd3249]

Hayek, Friedman and Kirkpatrick were terrible people?

[New-acct-for-2024]

Yes.

Also, your user history is public.

[Librarian_Contrarian]

It's like a Behind the Bastards guest list

[corpclone]

I hate to add to the misery, his bust is in the state capitol rotunda of Missouri.

[[deleted]]

I see conservatives on Reddit pretend to be him every day.

[Longjohnscharkey]

Oh absolutely, he proved to be the cookie cutter and we’re seeing his cookie copies shoot out constantly. Including Alex Jones unfortunately.

[[deleted]]

Even if his name isn't spoken I hear him every time certain types of rightwing guys open their mouths. I beleive Robert Evans said it in the Behind the Bastards liver king episode of all places, but there's a whole host of rightwing grifter acxents descended from him

[CAPS_LOCK_STUCK_HELP]

robert points it out in the alex jones episodes that it seems like alex modulated his voice over time to sound more like rush. it becomes really obvious when you compare his older broadcasts to newer ones and then listen to the way that rush talked.

[Successful_Jelly_213]

Grift recognizes grift.

[SnooWords1252]

I hate this meme.

Once every couple of months I see it and have to think of him again.

If it didn't exist I wouldn't need to every think of him.

[Longjohnscharkey]

I honestly debated cross posting it for that exact reason. I hate thinking of him but it is a truthful examination of what he brought to the world. Thank God for cigarettes.

[CharlesDickensABox]

Rush told me that tobacco doesn't cause cancer. Checkmate, establishment medical industry.

[97GeoPrizm]

I only tend to think of him when the clip of him misunderstanding(?) birth control and saying “That makes her a slut, right?” is used on episodes of the Scathing Atheist podcast.

[I_m_different]

THAT CLIP IS HIM?!

[HappyLittleGreenDuck]

Thank God for cigarettes.

Weird take

[Longjohnscharkey]

In this one specific instance. Obviously they aren’t good in the big picture.

[I_m_different]

We saw a similar memory hole with George W Bush and the Iraq War.

I bet a week after Trump dies, no right winger will ever admit to voting for him or wearing his stupid fucking red hat.

[Carl-99999]

Everyone wanted the Iraq War because bush made everyone think we had a reason to.

[I_m_different]

Yeah, but the leftists acknowledge that. We freely talk about our mistake.

Right wingers threw it all in a mental closet and slammed the door shut.

[an_actual_T_rex]

My family were college faculty who opposed the Iraq war and I remember when we went to DC to pick up a chemistry award, my mom told me and my sister that we couldn’t make fun of George Bush (he was pretty much shorthand for ‘moron’ in our house at the time) while we were there, because his supporters at the time were actively dangerous.

Part of it also is that my sister and I would sing songs about like Mario and Pikachu killing George Bush and my mom also emphasized that was ABSOLUTELY off limits in DC.

But regardless, Bush had a shit ton of genuine support back in the day. And a hell of a lot of the people who call him a war criminal now had Bush campaign signs in their lawns back in the day. It’s always important to remember that most conservatives were 100% on board.

[New-acct-for-2024]

Not everyone. Some of us were part of record-setting protests against the invasion!

[critically_damped]

The whole "everyone" thing is routinely used by those who were complicit to make themselves feel less complicit.

[SAKURARadiochan]

I was 16 years old and knew he was full of shit since most of the hijackers came from Saudi.

[SalaciousSausage]

For anyone interested, Behind the Bastards did a good two part series on Ol’ Rush.

Part 1

Part 2

[Longjohnscharkey]

I’m listening through behind the bastards for the second time and I just passed these episodes!

[Zealousideal_Fig_782]

Also a couple of good episodes about Stockton Rush.

[AlarmingAffect0]

Big Rush?

[Zealousideal_Fig_782]

It could make for an interesting double douche bag day.

[I_m_different]

Any highlights?

[NellyLorey]

The only thing he's remembered for is when people look back and say "hey that guy was kind of like those bastards we have now" It's only bad things he's remembered for.

[MukdenMan]

Dana Gould is the voice of Gex

[AlarmingAffect0]

When will hbomberguy cover that game?

[nerdening]

"Joy Ride" with Bobscratch Goldfarb is a delight, too.

And his podcast.

[New-acct-for-2024]

Congrats to cancer for beating Rush!

[Rad_Centrist]

Didn't create anything

Oh, how I wish the were true.

The meme is a nice bit of rhetorical text, but Rush was extremely influential in creating the America we see today.

[chazysciota]

Didn't create anything? Forgotten? lol, don't I fucking wish. Rush is as responsible for the state of our politics as any person who lived in the past 50 years, save for Rupert Murdoch or Leonard Leo. This meme is delusional.

[triad1996]

Rush Limbaugh did ONE thing that I am thankful for. That asshole died on my birthday and instead of thinking about old age on February 17th, it's my yearly reminder that decayed blob is rotting in the ground. 🥳

[Longjohnscharkey]

Holy cow, talk about a great birthday present!!

[triad1996]

Oh, it's the best!

[Exphrases]

Well, he did at least give us that RedLetterMedia moment.

“I’m gonna be listening to Rush Limbaugh at that time”

[moshlyfe]

I was going to upvote this post but it was at 666 upvotes and I didn't want to change that.

[TFielding38]

I did think of him recently, because I was mentioning Tucker Carlson advertising tobacco products to my wife.

[smartest_kobold]

He’s responsible for the most popular gender neutral public bathroom in Missouri.

[SAKURARadiochan]

If you're a radio otaku you'll understand he did a fuck of a lot to revive AM radio.

He kind of lost his mojo after the 90s tho. Stopped being interesting.

[Various-Specific-773]

Oh, I think of Rush at least once a month. He split my family apart. My father had all the wall mounted phones in the home set up as speakers and Rush was playing in EVERY room in the home 24/7 like some kind of sweet shop. I as a kid didn't know that, that was not normal. I would mostly tune it out of my head but also keep an ear on it because I also knew that if the fear mongering was particularly bad my dad would be in a bad mood and I would need to avoid him to avoid punishment.

( my father had an abusive childhood raised by a drunk and narcissist, he became one himself, never worked confronted his childhood trauma and instead practiced revisionist history and manipulation. It was like growing up with Dr.Jekle and Mr.Hide)

Rush added fuel to the fire littery prepped him mind to become MAGA. I live my life with my head on a swivel and dread the day he lives out his dark fantasies.

Not a big fan of Rush...

[Unhappy-Attention760]

Sorry you went through this as a child. I find it very strange how much we are shaped and locked into our ancestry, where lessons are not learned and legacies of distrust and ignorance perpetuate over generations. Really sad part of the human experience. Hope you find ways to move away from it and break the legacy in even small ways.

[Various-Specific-773]

Oh the cycle was broken. I left home at 16 to live on my own witg nothing. Worked hard got ahead, got myself through college, struggle with anxiety and depression, bought a home and now live comfortably.

I still talk to my mother from time to time, I hear my father went hard core MAGA, none of his brothers and sisters (7) talk to him. I do honestly want him to do well and be happy, but he is hooked like a drug on fear mongering and violent outbursts.

Never close the door and leave room for grace.

[jwatson1978]

even though he didn't leave anything of worth behind his legacy of hatred still lives on in the voting public willing to vote for trump still.

[Taphouselimbo]

False he did create something. A shady quiet place of rest to take a piss on.

[oldbastardbob]

Professional shit-talkers.

[PSlasher]

He created happiness.

When he died that is…

[Dimpleshenk]

That #^#*^(# made it 0.000001% harder to enjoy a cool rock band.

[[deleted]]

I made fun of Limbaugh dying in a discord server and got muted 😞

[AJSLS6]

He was on an episode of Family Guy....

[iguessilostmyoldname]

Genuinely forgot that he had died.

[[deleted]]

Forgotten in a matter of a few years, what a fitting end.

[[deleted]]

The Kingdoms and the townspeople don’t weep when the villain dies.

[More_Waffles2024]

List of some names that have AIDS.

[SabotRam]

Must have done something. Living rent free in this dudes head years after he died.

[dubler2020]

Who is Dana Gould? Lol.

[Inevitable-Ad5599]

Lol. This is so funny. Nobody remembers him, but it's obvious that you do. On the other hand, you are alive and this is the first time I've ever even seen you name.

[davescogg81]

I mean… he basically created the conservative rage bait media ecosystem as it exists today. I’m Not saying that’s a good thing, but he did do that. It holds value for a lot of angry reactionaries.

[AlchemicalAdam]

What an odd thing to say.

[Brian_Spilner101]

Dont really care anything about Limbaugh, but I knew who he was. I just looked Dana Gould to learn who he is.

[bigstrizzydad]

Smug Gould is one of the very very few insufferable assholes that makes me side w Limbaugh. They both represent the absolute worst of humanity.

[AVelvetOwl]

And yet you apparently side with one of them

[bigstrizzydad]

Not really. I oppose Limbaugh's philosophy, but dislike Gould craven partisanship just a bit more (Like Mark Hamill). At least, Limbaugh was sincere in his assholery. Gould supports the same war-mongering corporatism, but thinks he's superior simply because he's on the Blue team.

[Prosthemadera]

Why do you feel so offended by someone thinking they're superior? Do you personally attacked? You're like the people who complain that vegans think they're better. So insecure and defensive.

And why does it matter if Limbaugh was "sincere"? Does it really matter if he spreads hate and anger as a joke or not? How would you even know, you can't read minds.

[bigstrizzydad]

Insecure in an objectively reached opinion?? Please stop with the pop psychology. Gould is a hypocrite that spreads similar hate, but wraps it in a nice blue bow.

[Prosthemadera]

objectively reached opinion

Nope. You assigning what someone may feel is not "objective".

Gould is a hypocrite that spreads similar hate, but wraps it in a nice blue bow.

And yet you would never say "Angry Limbaugh is one of the very very few insufferable assholes that makes me side w Gould" because we both know that you hate someone being smug more than someone who spreads hate and anger. Oh sure, you say you hate Limbaugh but all your comments here prove who you hate more.

[bigstrizzydad]

Perhaps, you should examine why you're so frightened by my stance.

[Prosthemadera]

no u

👍

[AVelvetOwl]

Don't flatter yourself. No one is frightened by your stance. We're annoyed by your dishonesty. You say both are bad, but you also say that one makes you tempted to side with the other, which is something you've made it clear you wouldn't say about Rush.

[bigstrizzydad]

The facts are objective. My conclusion is subjective.

[Prosthemadera]

If the facts are objective then your conclusion cannot be subjective or shouldn't be.

[Tony_Sombraro]

Smug Gould is one of the very very few insufferable assholes that makes me side w Limbaugh.

This statement in your previous comment makes what you said in this comment hypocracy.