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crandc said:
Evil spirit lives on. Tucker Carlson is now claiming the Bidens 44 year marriage is a sham, a PR stunt to cover Joe Biden's supposed senility.

Evidence? Only libtards need evidence!
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I remember watching the history channel and other channels that documented history and in particular stuff on WWII. I was obsessed and would watch as much as I could, I found it fascinating. At the time I would always find it hard to understand how folks could believe some of the ridiculous stuff that the Nazis did as it was just so outright ridiculous.

Fast forward to today’s modern day Republican Party and now we’re living through similar absurdities in reasoning and beliefs. And yet with the benefit of living through it, I still don’t get it.

I agree with @calvin natt, people like rush have normalized absurdity, bigotry, and irrational behavior. These things used to be looked at for what they were, absurd and grotesque. Now they are so normalized that nothing seems shocking or upsetting anymore, and quite frankly that’s not good for our country.
 
crandc said:
Evil spirit lives on. Tucker Carlson is now claiming the Bidens 44 year marriage is a sham, a PR stunt to cover Joe Biden's supposed senility.

Evidence? Only libtards need evidence!
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Why would that matter though? A brain dead Biden would be 100% better than the alternative...

He could have been a vegetable in the ICU and he would have still gotten my vote. And I hadn't voted for a Democrat since Gore...
 
HailBlazers said:
Ronald Reagan in the 80s.
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I will disagree with that. I didn't vote for Reagan, but he was not the slash-and-burn - 'we're great and you are evil' - type that Newt and Rush were.

Reagan, while obviously conservative, was more in the mold of the good 'ol Rockefeller Republicans. He and Tip O'Neil for example, famously got along great and had drinks after hours together. You could never imagine that with this crew or with the type of politics that Rush and Newt ushered in.
 
Stevenson said:
Reagan, while obviously conservative, was more in the mold of the good 'ol Rockefeller Republicans.
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Wow, ha. If Reagan were alive to hear you say that, he'd be horrified. I think I understand what you mean in terms of genteel manner, but he detested that wing of the party--he wasn't just "conservative," he was among the most extreme conservatives in the party. He was the one attacking Nixon from the right. He thought Nixon was far too liberal. George Bush the elder was disturbed by Reagan's extremism (before, of course, accepting the vice presidential offer from him).

It's true that he practiced the type of bipartisanship that Joe Biden recently lauded--being able to have a drink with people of the other party. That's quite separate from whether he was bipartisan in his politics--Reagan is where the Republican party pivoted into "slashing all public entitlements, lower taxes at every turn for the upper class and deregulate everywhere possible no matter the cost to safety or the environment." While this seems like standard boiler plate for the party now (and for the past couple of generations), it wasn't scripture before Reagan.
 
Stevenson said:
I will disagree with that. I didn't vote for Reagan, but he was not the slash-and-burn - 'we're great and you are evil' - type that Newt and Rush were.
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Reagan innovated that the 1st Republican Commandment was, Thou shalt not criticize another Republican. From then until Trump, they acted like a fascist voting block, while Democrats spoke their minds individually. Unanimity vs. diversity. In 2016, Trump constantly criticized other Republicans, which got my respect, but of course made him enemies with Republican leadership. Trump has finally ended the party's Reagan era.

Also, calling another country an Evil Empire when diplomacy had been more polite till then, getting rid of TV's Fairness Doctrine, and more.

Stevenson said:
Reagan, while obviously conservative, was more in the mold of the good 'ol Rockefeller Republicans. He and Tip O'Neil for example, famously got along great and had drinks after hours together. You could never imagine that with this crew or with the type of politics that Rush and Newt ushered in.
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Yes, while the actor lied to O'Neil about El Salvador death squads. It required the Contra-gate hearings to get to the bottom of his secret funding method, the CIA slush fund plus a few private contributions from rich collaborators.
 
I once worked in a CPA office in which they kept Rush on all day. Since it was in the next room, all I heard was a smothered, blurry, incomprehensible version of his blathering and hollering. When, after they had hovered over ever detail of the O.J. Simpson trial for a year (I saved a thousand hours by ignoring it), it was time for Rush to make the big announcement. So I stepped into the room to hear the verdict. Not guilty. Shocking. I made a neutral comment of surprise to the conservatives, and quickly returned to my office to work.*

*The moral of the story is: Time is of the essence when you are billed out at $80/hour but are paid $10/hour. (Aesop said that.)
 
Im not sure how hatred solves anything. Hatred begets hatred.

This thread and some of the posts are as sickening as racists are.

if you want someone to die, does it really matter why?

sooo progressive......
 
Orion Bailey said:
Im not sure how hatred solves anything. Hatred begets hatred.

This thread and some of the posts are as sickening as racists are.

if you want someone to die, does it really matter why?

sooo progressive......
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I don't understand this perspective at all. No one is out murdering people or raiding capitol buildings or saying anyone is subhuman or anything like that. They are simply saying: a total jerk of a human died today and I care not; or the world is a better place; or whathaveyou.

And how is that not true? Rush was divisive and bigoted and racist and pusher of conspiracies. His legacy will haunt us for the foreseeable future...

And so, when it comes down to it, this notion that hatred begets hatred is what's being recognized (if not celebrated) in the posts you so revile: a hate megaphone has gone quiet...
 
The Professional Fan said:
I was super happy when Osama Bin Laden was murdered. Were you?
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Propagandist said:
I don't understand this perspective at all. No one is out murdering people or raiding capitol buildings or saying anyone is subhuman or anything like that. They are simply saying: a total jerk of a human died today and I care not; or the world is a better place; or whathaveyou.

And how is that not true? Rush was divisive and bigoted and racist and pusher of conspiracies. His legacy will haunt us for the foreseeable future...

And so, when it comes down to it, this notion that hatred begets hatred is what's being recognized (if not celebrated) in the posts you so revile: a hate megaphone has gone quiet...
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sorry i could have made myself a bit clearer.
i was referring to some of the posts showing rush’s obvious bigoted slant. Not just what members here were saying.

however to answer the question i still believe hatred begats hatred. Someones hatred led to rush’s stance which leads others hatred of rush and so on and so on. Much like violence.
Someone at some point has to stop the hate rhetoric whether valid or not if we ever want to see this pendulum stop swinging back and forth.
Hatred blackens hearts and hardens souls.

was i happy when osama was killed, no. Was i sad? No.
Was i indifferent? Yes
Do i believe it helped? Not really. Hate on America has not relinquished. Terrorist attempts have not diminished across the globe.

do i think we needed to take him out? Yes.
Sometimes we need to do the lesser of two evils.
It doesn't mean we should gloat about it. I dont gloat about anyones death however deserving it may be.

Recognizing someone should be removed from society should not provide happiness in my opinion.
 
I'll just go on record and say I didn't grieve for Rush, Charlie Manson, Jeffrey Epstein and any of that ilk and I certainly won't grieve for Alex Jones when he checks out.....I will grieve for old Bob Dole who's dying as we speak....he is at least a decent human being. I also do feel happy when they catch the Ted Bundy's and Richard Ramirez' of the world and remove them from society...no empathy for monsters and serial killers at all....I can live with that and sleep well at night
 
Minstrel said:
But intolerance of intolerance is intolerance also!
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It's the WORST kind of intolerance and oddly enough, makes the first kind of intolerance tolerable!
 
Orion Bailey said:
Im not sure how hatred solves anything. Hatred begets hatred.

This thread and some of the posts are as sickening as racists are.

if you want someone to die, does it really matter why?

sooo progressive......
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Wanting somebody to die because that's the only way they'll stop hurting people isn't bad.
 
Orion Bailey said:
sorry i could have made myself a bit clearer.
i was referring to some of the posts showing rush’s obvious bigoted slant. Not just what members here were saying.

however to answer the question i still believe hatred begats hatred. Someones hatred led to rush’s stance which leads others hatred of rush and so on and so on. Much like violence.
Someone at some point has to stop the hate rhetoric whether valid or not if we ever want to see this pendulum stop swinging back and forth.
Hatred blackens hearts and hardens souls.

was i happy when osama was killed, no. Was i sad? No.
Was i indifferent? Yes
Do i believe it helped? Not really. Hate on America has not relinquished. Terrorist attempts have not diminished across the globe.

do i think we needed to take him out? Yes.
Sometimes we need to do the lesser of two evils.
It doesn't mean we should gloat about it. I dont gloat about anyones death however deserving it may be.

Recognizing someone should be removed from society should not provide happiness in my opinion.
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Yeah, I agree with all of this. I'm not celebrating that he's dead, but it is a relief. Here's hoping we take advantage of it...
 
riverman said:
I'll just go on record and say I didn't grieve for Rush, Charlie Manson, Jeffrey Epstein and any of that ilk and I certainly won't grieve for Alex Jones when he checks out.....I will grieve for old Bob Dole who's dying as we speak....he is at least a decent human being. I also do feel happy when they catch the Ted Bundy's and Richard Ramirez' of the world and remove them from society...no empathy for monsters and serial killers at all....I can live with that and sleep well at night
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I met Bob Dole in DC in 2008. He was a guest at my grandpas military reunion. I had no idea who he was lol but there’s a pic of him and I somewhere
 
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
 
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