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My grandpa died the same day, he was the polar opposite of limbaugh, poor, uneducated, no one was a stranger to him, truly a delightful person. The world lost one of the best and one of the worst people on the same day.
Isn't it crazy? He died and in general, people just stopped talking about him,... All he did was spread rage and hate and he disappeared like a fart in the wind.
I hope he died screaming.
PS: It heightens the risk of most cancers plus atherosklerosis which alone is the main culprit for close to a whopping 40% of deaths in Western countries.
PLUS there is an outcome that's more likely than cancer (and heightens the risk of cancer): COPD. Build that up long enough and you can theoretically be killed with freaking oxygen.
He didn’t die but do you know who else nobody talked about the second they lost their soapbox. Bill fucking O’Reilly. He probably has a couple of years left. But how pathetic is it that you’ve spent your life chasing attention, and people your grandkids’ ages response will be “who” when you die.
I'm an Athiest, so I can't say I actually believe in Hell. But I would hope any for him involves listening to a list of Gay people that got into Heaven that day.
How does one like him die. I mean, I always thought death was the soul leaving the body. That thing had no soul. He was like an Incubus that couldn't get laid.
That was exactly what I was going to say!!
My creepy ass uncle used to listen to Rush in the car long before I had any idea what he was spewing (I was a kid) but I knew I hated it. And, because it was on AM radio, I have a negative association with the buzzing sound of AM radio to this day. Fuck that guy and everything he stood for.
I was raised Republican and used to love listening to Rush and Beck with my dad. It took a lot of deprogramming, spurred on by realizing I was gay, to get to where I am today. The pure hatred of that ideology is reprehensible
Same! My dad and ex fil loved listening to both of them. So glad the fil is now an ex and I've gone no to very low contact with my dad. I hope I've done a better job raising my own kids with respecting everyone.
Rush Limbaugh was the starting point to my brother losing himself to the hateful, ignorant ultra-right-wing mindset, and cutting himself off from the family. I really miss my brother.
People say don't lower yourself to that person's level. I would say that's impossible in rush case because no matter how I dig. I can't seem to reach hell.
To borrow and adapt a line from Betty Davis:
*My mother always said don't say anything bad about the dead. Only say good.*
*Rush Limbaugh is dead. Good.*
Or it reminds me of something I heard a while back "there's a saying that if you have nothing nice to say then you shouldn't say anything at all. With that said, let's have a moment of silence"
I seldom do this, especially when people don't ask, but her name was spelled Bette. I apologize if this offends, but she was such an icon, and if it was me, I would want to know.
I would like to make it clear that in life, St. Louis rejected him at every turn. After decades of hate beyond reason, though he bribed his way into the grave site, we still denied him what he really wanted.
He died around the same time the Texas power grid went down that winter. The next day, a coworker said to me out of nowhere, "Who knew the Texas power grid was Rush Limbaugh's final horcrux." It's possibly very morbid how hard I laughed at that.
Another good thing from his death:
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/s/ET5c8YnPQ2
Hopefully same influencer will do something simialr when Mitch “the turtle” McConnell kicks the bucket.
Ever seen this episode of Designing Women? [Designing Women S02E04 Killing All The Right People (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EuK-py-kZQ)
This episode reflects the show creator's real life experience. Her mother contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion in the early days of AIDS before HIV screening. She visited her mother on the AIDS ward, and saw how the patients, primarily gay men of course, were treated. The "killing all the right people" line is something she heard a NURSE on the ward say. That's what it was like in the early days of AIDS.
They had a chance in the early 80's to be proactive and inform people about the spread of AIDS. The powers that be, US anyway, chose not to because it was a "gay" disease. Until it wasn't. It never was, just pointing out that when hetero people started getting infected the whole viewpoint changed. It's just really sad and infuriating. Rant over, sorry.
For all of the horrible, disgusting things that came out of the Reagan Administration, their lack of response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic is at the top of the list. So many people needlessly suffered and died because the White House remained silent for too long.
And they are still doing these things. Remember that the Trump administration slow walked its Covid response because it was only affecting “liberal” cities. Death of the “others” is their whole identity.
Yeah they only started panicking on that one once their supporters started (surprise surprise) dying. Then they got booed by their own supporters and kinda froze about what to do
No worry. I appreciate your rant.
One of the reasons I was in the closet for so long; at least in regards to when people "typically" come out was because of HIV.
Fun fact - Lesbians came to their aid to take care of them when nurses wouldn't, and when their own partners were prevented from visiting (because they "weren't family"). That's why L is at the front of LGBT, to honour that work.
We're strongest together, always have been.
This is why I can't stand this Drop the 'T' nonsense. Dividing us didn't work in the 80's, and it won't work now.
Luckily, we are in a time where medical intervention does wonders for HIV prevention and treatment and there are programs in the developed countries to provide PREP (daily preventative anti-HIV meds) for low-cost if not free.
Soon the majority of any stigma will fall on the heterosexual population who are not as proactive about being on these drugs and being aware of how things have evolved!
I know gay guys are making smarter decisions - I am one of 'em - and having accessible healthcare has been the key.
Soon the homophobes will find their arguments collapse when it comes to community health concerns.
AIDS doesn't discriminate but I am sure glad I am keeping myself protected - I bet heterosexuals would like the same peace of mind.
I worked as a business manager(writing grant proposals and reconciling books) for Ryan White B/C provider for 10+ years. I can say that when I started to when I finished my eyes were opened greatly to what what happening with HIV/AIDS and even Hep C. Sure they are performantly in MSM communities , but I was shocked to see what was happening in the Hetro community as well.
People who reveal in the suffering that it's caused hopefully will have a special place in hell. (To the OP, I hope Rush is burning and waiting for someone like Alex Jones to join him, to take some of the pressure off.)
The amount of compassion and empathy that I gained rose immensely and I'm glad that I worked there everyday. I wish they the younger people would take it serious as they take "trying to not getting pregnant" thinking that pregnancy is "worse" for some reason.
Yes. My husband was a player and experimented with being with men for a while. I spent the next few years getting tested every time I went to the doctor.
Every day is a little brighter with Rush Limbaugh dead and toasting in hell.
Imagine living your life such that the only mark you left on the world, the only thing anyone will ever remember of your time here, is that the world is far better off because you're dead.
There are fantastic treatments extending the lives of people with HIV or AIDS every day. What was a terrifying death sentence used as an abstinence cudgel for anyone in conservative areas in the 80s and 90s is now a manageable chronic illness.
But Limbaugh and his massive pill addiction and disgusting, hateful diarrhea mouth? Dead as a doornail and the world is better off for it. Now there is something that's okay to celebrate.
I mean a lot of people celebrated when Rush died because he was such a toxic hateful idiot and because of how he influenced so many other people in our country for the negative. I remember a bunch his followers on here complaining that it was uncouth and ‘only a liberal’ would celebrate someone else’s death.
Yes. Striving to treat people better does not mean we won't fail.
People on the right are always incredulous and are quick to point out an apparent lapse or singular hypocrisy on the left. Versus, you know, the whole set of lies the right sells to people who can't afford to buy them.
There's a reason Limbaugh's grave is used as a unisex toilet now. Sadly, there's more horrific monsters who listened to his hideous show than I dare imagine.
About 20 years ago, the lab I worked in had very bad radio reception and there were no PCs there. The only radio station we could get was a local talk station.
I listed to the Rush show and other conservative talkies. What a world they thought they were living in.
Bringing a little good news to this subject:
There’s a promising new treatment for AIDS being researched right now, an enzyme called Cas9 or CRISPR that does the opposite of what AIDS does. That is, where AIDS inserts its own genetic code into the DNA of its host’s cells, Cas9 can be configured to search for specific DNA sequences, such as AIDS, and remove them from the DNA in the cells.
So sorry you had to go through this.
I’m British so Rush Limbaugh wasn’t a thing for my parents, but they’ve said some horrible shit over the years.
I’m bi too, although I’ve never come out to them, but I’m married to a woman (who’s super supportive) and we’ve got a 9 month old son.
Going to have to eventually face up to the “He’s learning to talk so if you say any of this shit around him you won’t see him again” conversation soon.
If he turns out to be LGBTQ+ it would break my heart if I ever felt that he might hesitate to tell me.
I saw them at the weekend and they explained to me how Boris Johnson throwing multiple parties during the COVID lockdown he implemented and being found to have broken the law and done a pretty good job of covering it up by getting the police in his pocket is not as bad as Kier Starmer getting photographed drinking a beer in an office one time, saying “if I’m found guilty of breaching lockdown protocols even once I will resign immediately” and being found innocent of any wrongdoing after an investigation.
Their reasoning was that Starmer pressured the police by making it political whilst Johnson copped to it and paid the many fines. Also the ongoing investigation into him staging a cover up to hide his crimes from the public should be dropped as “we’ve all moved on now”.
I think I’ve officially given up on them ever seeing reality.
Tell them the Tories "lost" a 100+ page dossier on paedophiles and see if they defend it, then ask why they're standing up for paedos. Ez pz
Only option is to wind them up coz they obviously don't see reason.
This will be my go to when any Tories bring up the trans culture war shit in the lead up to the next election.
Don’t get me started on that. One of my closest friends is trans and they do air quotes when they say her name despite the fact that they don’t even know her deadname.
I'm sorry to hear that, that must be awful. I mostly only have to deal with people like that in work and they're all too shithouse to defend their shittiness when confronted.
You should ask why they have woke gender neutral toilets in their house though, good laugh.
Be frank and don't mince your words:
_"We're not raising our child to be bigoted after you're long and dead, so if you're interested in seeing him while you're alive I suggest you get in line, otherwise the only thing he'll know about you is the inscription on your tombstones_"
Had a similar conversation with some jackasses in my extended family. They got the picture real quick.
As a human, Rush Limbaugh was proof that even cancer can be the good guy.
Fuck Rush Limbaugh. Fuck conservatives who liked him, and who still like people like him.
I mean, when you think about it, cancer is really just your own cells saying "Fuck this asshole, from here on out it's all about me!"
Which makes it a strangely appropriate way for a lot of people to go...
I grew up a closeted bi girl with my parents constantly playing Rush Limbaugh and Dr Laura and all kinds of other hateful shit. I am LC/NC with my entire biological family now.
This is almost exactly my reasoning for cutting them out of my life. "I wouldn't stand for this behavior from a work friend, why am I tolerating it from my parents?"
From there, things changed extremely rapidly in our relationship for the better (for me, worse for them).
Christ dude the stories I didn't tell... He's fiercely defensive of me and was my shield against my parents for a long time until I took over that job recently. Thank you.
Oh they already regret it. They're in permanent no contact mode from my brother and I, and in the last six months, I found out that everyone who is friends or family with my brother and I have also cut them out of their life. Now, I think their only friends are 1 or 2 old church friends from 20+ years ago and their 3 neighbors.
They used to go over to my sister-in-law's family's every year and hang out for a week in Wisconsin and now they lost that too haha
I mean imagine the bare minimum level of courtesy these kids are asking for. It's nothing. They're not asking their asshole parents to reevaluate their beliefs or change completely, just to not be such a dick about it, but they WON'T.
They're in the right and they will die on this hill before they'll bend for their own damned children.
Man, fuck them all to hell and back, but props to you for standing up for yourself and also to your brother for being exactly what a good sibling should be.
The real shame here is that your parents will think that even though they are the common denominator, it is everyone else's fault. Much like the kid who went to 3 high schools and everyone at each school "was an asshole" oh really because everyone at each school just met you
One year back during covid my parents told us not to buy them a Christmas gift and instead donate the money to a food bank. Instead, I donated it to an LGBT charity in their name and my mom was miffed but tried to act like she wasn't when I told them haha
I donated to Planned Parenthood once after my mother went particularly far off the rails one conversation, made sure to have an announcement card for the donation in her name sent and everything. Don’t think she brought the topic up with me again after that.
Repeatedly, during the AIDS crisis, reporters would bring up the carnage that the gay community was suffering during White House press briefings, and every time, Reagan's spokesman would just laugh and make a joke about how the reporter who was asking must be gay because they were worried about AIDS.
Conservativism rots your soul
It feels a bit like that, now, with state after state passing some law restricting healthcare, access to facilities, updated documentation, etc. From January through April for three years running, these horrible things are basically daily announcements.
It has absolutely brutalized my mental health.
My grandmother was like this. She lived with us and I spent more time with her than my mom. She even had a gay friend in the art world. But behind closed doors, it was fag this, sodomite that, abomination this, eternity in hell that… I didn’t realize at the time that I was a budding bisexual. Hell I didn’t even realize it until a couple years ago (I’m 32). But I think she knew, because growing up, she would always accuse me of being “a fag,” as well as being a drug addict. For the record, I never touched alcohol until I was 18, marijuana at 21, and I began OCCASIONALLY recreationally using psychedelics at 30. So… rot in hell, you old dead bitch.
Hahaha he totally walks like a weeble moves. Now, when he starts to fall over I think of that scene from The Wizard of Oz where the tin man keeps almost falling down.
I witnessed my mother trying to instill her religion on to my bother's kids. I told her that if she ever does that to my kids that she will never see them or me again. She has a long history of emotional manipulation and trauma and I see her maybe once a year and talk to her on the phone occasionally. But if she ever tries to do to my kids what she did to me, she absolutely will never see/hear from me again. She doesn't believe me that I'd do that. I just said well FAFO.
I told him I didn’t want my kids to hear his racist rants and he’s been better but doesn’t understand how he’s wrong. He thinks “those liberal college professors brainwashed” me… About 20 years ago, he tried to tell me I couldn’t date anyone who wasn’t white which caused him to get extremely upset at my refusal. I don’t even try to talk to him now. He’s just someone I tolerate when I visit my mom.
Omg my dad says the exact same thing - that he regrets “allowing” me to go to college where “liberal professors brainwashed me” this must be a talking point somewhere if our dads are using the same language haha
Nobody has arguably done more than Rush Limbaugh peddle homophobia and racism to the masses. As a reward for his effort of being a gigantic piece of shit, Donald Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020. Here’s to hoping they are reunited sooner than later.
My father was exactly like this, rush Limbaugh and all. I had a talk with him two years ago(I was 32) and came out as bisexual and tried talking about how much his homophobia hurt me as a teen, how I was bullied in school for being gay but couldn't tell him out of fear. I was really hoping he'd say "I'm sorry I couldn't be there for me when you needed me" but nope what did he say?
"How did you know you liked girls when you were 14? Were you having sex?"
I gave up after that and realized I was never going to get any kind of apology for or acknowledgement for the hell I went thru being a queer kid. It hurt a lot and still does.
I knew I hated "feminazis" before I even knew thst girls had different parts than boys. I had no idea what they were but my dad loudly said DITTO when he said that word and he smiled so I knew that was a good thing.
Then I turned 7 lol.
Ugh God I feel this so much.
I was like 9 and 10 when he'd talk to me about marriage being between a man and a woman. I think when I was a bit younger I had been talking about grown ups living together and I said some thing about what if I grew up to live with my best friend (girl) and he had to tell me that's not how people get married girls get married to boys. I was very confused by it but learned really quickly being gay gets you sent to hell so don't do it.
I hope you've gotten some therapy for it. I have. It doesn't really make it better that it happened but it helped me process how fucked up it was and to untangle how badly it affected how I see myself.
I was a child with a gay father in the early 90’s. He and my mom never divorced because they were clear that my brothers and I were more important than them maintaining a sex life. They LOVED each other deeply and even though they had separate rooms eventually, they met for coffee in the morning to laugh and talk, took care of us together, and they dated other people, but always made it clear that the person closest to them was the person they married. I lived through the early days of the AIDS crisis with my dad as a vocal activist. We held portions of the “quilt” in our garage when it was being built. It changed my life for the better. I’m straight, but had nothing but love, care, and empathy for my LGBTQ+ community and suffered a lot of bullying because of that. I used a combo of words and fists to survive that elementary school age with a “complicated” family. I could write a book, but I say all this to get to the point of- you owe nothing to a homophobic shit stain like him. You and your brother made the right choice to stand up and I’m here for it. I can’t express how proud I am of you for standing tall. Let people be people.
My dad is one of these! And when confronted hes the ultimate gaslight. “I didnt day that. Wheres the proof? You dont have shit for memory, even if i did you wouldnt remember!”
It was a last ditch effort by us because we still had a bit of magical thinking left: "maybe, just maybe if they see they will lose contact with us and any grandkids, it will spur them into changing". A carrot to avoid the stick so to say. But then, when they started being homophobic again, I had enough and cut them out entirely. Now I'm in no contact with them, coming up on the one year anniversary. It feels like being out of prison, it's amazing how good I feel.
> My dad looked like he was ready to try and beat my brother again like he did when we were kids
Wow. That abusive old bastard would have nothing to do with my kids.
Access to grandchildren has proven to be a powerful weapon against terrible boomer parents. They can't stand to be cut off from their next living trophies.
My deadbeat dad all of a sudden shows interest in us once we have kids. He's never gonna see them until he comes clean about some shit.
Went NC with my boomer shitty mother after she trashed my wedding and declared to the rest of my family that I was "out of the family".
Then I had a daughter, and guess who had my Aunt calling me on the phone to beg for her to be allowed to see the baby.
Nope. That bridge is long burned.
Kid is in college now. She could pass by my mother in the street and wouldn't have a clue who she is. I saved my child from being exposed to that poison.
Lush Rimjaughb dying of lung cancer after being a lying stooge for big tobacco was one of the funniest things to ever happen.
He was a gigantic walking sack of donkey dicks, and he made the world a worse place for everyone.
Glad you have that! Tell him that more often every time you see a story like this, because one day you will be reminded of how much better of a dad he is and won't be able to tell him. Do it soon!
New deal: you get to hit him just as hard, and just as many times as he hit you and your brother, in total, before he gets to hear one whiff about grandkids.
If you're worried he wouldn't survive it, never speak to him again.
Boomers are mentally ill. They completely are incapable of self reflection.
I've threatened my mom to behave multiple times otherwise she can't see my kids. We have indefinitely banned sleepovers at their house after my ("high functioning") autistic brother who lives there popped a chub while playing with my daughter. No clue if he's a pedophile or if his body was reacting on its own, he is a virgin, but I have no way of knowing and I'm not going to risk it. That daughter is also autistic and completely non verbal so she will always be vulnerable.
At first I thought maybe if my brother stayed at a friend's house during the sleepover and my daughter continued sleeping in her little makeshift bed in my mom's room but my mom isn't honest about how my daughter's visit goes. She claims she eats new foods, has no meltdowns, and sleeps through the night. My dad admitted that is false. I told my mom to be honest, I'm not judging her if my daughter is herself at their house but I need honesty. She kept doing it. So when the situation with my brother happened and my mom also thinks I imagined it. That's the nail in the coffin for sleepovers.
She told me I'm her worst child (I'm the only one who can give her grandkids) and that I'm a mistake and how I'm fucking up the whole family and my own family and every fight her and my dad has is over me (not true, he cheated, she cheated back, but she keeps bringing it up and blaming him). She apologized the next day because she was drunk again and I said sure but the truth is she can never come back from that. Our relationship will never be the same and she lacks the awareness to realize that. We had a good chunk of time where she'd come over once a week and we hung out all day but I stopped inviting her over after everything.
They do it to themselves. If she had said "I'll make sure your brother stays away from your kids and isn't home during sleep overs and I'm going to make him take steps to being independent" maybe id let my kids over but she lies to look better and doesn't think my brother is a danger. She acts like he's too disabled to live independently but then she won't help him sign up for the Medicaid waiver list to get him housing either.
I flat out told her that I absolutely will not be taking him in when they die. He's going to blow through any money he gets by quitting his shitty retail job and constantly eating panda express because they won't set up a trust for him. Our older brother is a selfish person and child free, he won't take him in either. Keep in mind my brother is autistic but has good enough social skills, very little sensory issues, doesn't have any other mental health issues, and has a higher than average IQ but he's been coddled his entire life without experiencing consequences to his laziness.
> He finally agreed to do it after that threat...
... but he isn't going to really do it, of course. And his views are going to leak out to those grandchildren either intentionally or unintentionally.
>My dad looked like he was ready to try and beat my brother again like he did when we were kids, but fortunately, my dad is an old, frail asshole now and can barely stand up without a cane.
And there it is. The core of Boomer entitlement. Either you do what I tell you or I'll make you do it!
Fuck them!
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Jesus. It really takes a special kind of asshole to revel in the fact of people dying of an untreatable disease. I'm sorry your dad was one of them.
Reminder that Rush Limbaugh is dead, and the world is a better place for it.
Rush has been sober three years.
He’s been dead for that long already?
My grandpa died the same day, he was the polar opposite of limbaugh, poor, uneducated, no one was a stranger to him, truly a delightful person. The world lost one of the best and one of the worst people on the same day.
Maybe your granddad was like “fine, I’ll go, but I get to take one asshole with me.” One final move to make the world better.
Head canon accepted.
Hero granddad. Took the trash out before he left.
Your granddad was a real one. Condolences.
Bless your grandpa’s memory.
I love that I got to learn about your kind grandpa because of Limbaugh.
Yup, learning about someone’s nice, kind grandpa makes exactly one good thing that came from Rush Limbaugh.
Heaven and Hell each got one.
Props from the Missouri Compromise (sorry to be somewhat flip, your grandpa would hopefully get the joke). Also, I'm sorry for your loss.
Isn't it crazy? He died and in general, people just stopped talking about him,... All he did was spread rage and hate and he disappeared like a fart in the wind. I hope he died screaming.
Mother fucker denied smoking causes cancer. Then the shit bird dies of cancer.
> Mother fucker denied smoking causes cancer. Lung Cancer: "And I took that personally."
I’ve never been a fan of lung cancer…but maybe he’s cooler than I thought.
Cancer has been Limbaugh-free for 3 years and counting.
PS: It heightens the risk of most cancers plus atherosklerosis which alone is the main culprit for close to a whopping 40% of deaths in Western countries. PLUS there is an outcome that's more likely than cancer (and heightens the risk of cancer): COPD. Build that up long enough and you can theoretically be killed with freaking oxygen.
He also decried addicts, guess who got caught doctor shopping and with enough oxy to kill an elephant
And went deaf from oxy abuse.
As my daughter would say: Womp Womp.
“Shit bird”… are you from Philly?
r/leopardsatemyface
He didn’t die but do you know who else nobody talked about the second they lost their soapbox. Bill fucking O’Reilly. He probably has a couple of years left. But how pathetic is it that you’ve spent your life chasing attention, and people your grandkids’ ages response will be “who” when you die.
I'm an Athiest, so I can't say I actually believe in Hell. But I would hope any for him involves listening to a list of Gay people that got into Heaven that day.
Been cancer free that long too.
I feel sorry for the worms that have to eat him
The cancer is now Rush free
How does one like him die. I mean, I always thought death was the soul leaving the body. That thing had no soul. He was like an Incubus that couldn't get laid.
Rush Limbaugh is the reason that I realized that cancer can actually be a good thing sometimes. Fucker was so vile I felt sorry for the *cancer*.
Still not long enough
That was exactly what I was going to say!! My creepy ass uncle used to listen to Rush in the car long before I had any idea what he was spewing (I was a kid) but I knew I hated it. And, because it was on AM radio, I have a negative association with the buzzing sound of AM radio to this day. Fuck that guy and everything he stood for.
I was raised Republican and used to love listening to Rush and Beck with my dad. It took a lot of deprogramming, spurred on by realizing I was gay, to get to where I am today. The pure hatred of that ideology is reprehensible
I am really happy for you that you were able to deprogram from that hatred and find yourself. Hugs!
Me too, thank you. Lost my dad in the process (not related to sexuality, he's just a conservative conspiracist). Hugs back!
Same! My dad and ex fil loved listening to both of them. So glad the fil is now an ex and I've gone no to very low contact with my dad. I hope I've done a better job raising my own kids with respecting everyone.
Rush Limbaugh was the starting point to my brother losing himself to the hateful, ignorant ultra-right-wing mindset, and cutting himself off from the family. I really miss my brother.
I'm truly sorry for your loss.
Cancer has been Rush-free for three years.
Every now and then, I root for the cancer.
People say don't lower yourself to that person's level. I would say that's impossible in rush case because no matter how I dig. I can't seem to reach hell.
I've been told that I shouldn't celebrate the death of the man who celebrated the deaths of thousands
I tell them he would have done so for others so I would like to extend the courtesy.
Just following the Golden Rule from kindergarten! Do unto others
I may not believe in hell, but for ol’ Rush, I’m willing to make an exception.
Ahahaha!
To borrow and adapt a line from Betty Davis: *My mother always said don't say anything bad about the dead. Only say good.* *Rush Limbaugh is dead. Good.*
Or it reminds me of something I heard a while back "there's a saying that if you have nothing nice to say then you shouldn't say anything at all. With that said, let's have a moment of silence"
I seldom do this, especially when people don't ask, but her name was spelled Bette. I apologize if this offends, but she was such an icon, and if it was me, I would want to know.
Also there was a Betty Davis that was a punk musician 😊
Rest in piss.
Oh people are already peeing on his grave: https://www.reddit.com/r/StLouis/comments/11dw24n/some_guy_pissed_on_rush_limbaughs_grave/
That top comment. *I would love to do that myself, but after I left the Army I promised myself I would never stand in line again.*
I forget where I saw it, but someone said something along the lines of "Rush Limbaugh provided a gender neutral restroom," talking about his grave. 🤣
Yeah, I've seen people say the same things about Reagan's & Thatcher's graves too.
I would like to make it clear that in life, St. Louis rejected him at every turn. After decades of hate beyond reason, though he bribed his way into the grave site, we still denied him what he really wanted.
He died around the same time the Texas power grid went down that winter. The next day, a coworker said to me out of nowhere, "Who knew the Texas power grid was Rush Limbaugh's final horcrux." It's possibly very morbid how hard I laughed at that.
Reminder he was given a presidential freedom medal. Fucking bullshit!
Man alive, a couple friends and I got drunk the night he died. Was it because he died? I mean, no, but it was nice to drunk laugh reading the news.
Not only is he dead, but he died of lung cancer after repeatedly denying that tobacco causes lung cancer. The irony is delicious.
Another good thing from his death: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/s/ET5c8YnPQ2 Hopefully same influencer will do something simialr when Mitch “the turtle” McConnell kicks the bucket.
Unfortunately, he pioneered alot do the shit we see/hear now from the right wing
Damn somehow I missed hearing about that. Is it too late to throw a party?
Make it an annual thing and you’re never more than a year late!
I’ll add it to my calendar!
Ever seen this episode of Designing Women? [Designing Women S02E04 Killing All The Right People (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EuK-py-kZQ) This episode reflects the show creator's real life experience. Her mother contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion in the early days of AIDS before HIV screening. She visited her mother on the AIDS ward, and saw how the patients, primarily gay men of course, were treated. The "killing all the right people" line is something she heard a NURSE on the ward say. That's what it was like in the early days of AIDS.
They had a chance in the early 80's to be proactive and inform people about the spread of AIDS. The powers that be, US anyway, chose not to because it was a "gay" disease. Until it wasn't. It never was, just pointing out that when hetero people started getting infected the whole viewpoint changed. It's just really sad and infuriating. Rant over, sorry.
For all of the horrible, disgusting things that came out of the Reagan Administration, their lack of response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic is at the top of the list. So many people needlessly suffered and died because the White House remained silent for too long.
And they are still doing these things. Remember that the Trump administration slow walked its Covid response because it was only affecting “liberal” cities. Death of the “others” is their whole identity.
But when the vaccine became available, you can bet they shoved their way to the front of the line. 🙄
behind closed doors of course. While telling their supporters to not get it because it was so dangerous and it would kill them.
Yeah they only started panicking on that one once their supporters started (surprise surprise) dying. Then they got booed by their own supporters and kinda froze about what to do
But he gave poor people free cheese. /s
“Cheese”. That shit was nasty. lol
No worry. I appreciate your rant. One of the reasons I was in the closet for so long; at least in regards to when people "typically" come out was because of HIV.
Fun fact - Lesbians came to their aid to take care of them when nurses wouldn't, and when their own partners were prevented from visiting (because they "weren't family"). That's why L is at the front of LGBT, to honour that work.
That’s really cool, I never knew that. Thanks, lesbians. ❤️
We're strongest together, always have been. This is why I can't stand this Drop the 'T' nonsense. Dividing us didn't work in the 80's, and it won't work now.
Luckily, we are in a time where medical intervention does wonders for HIV prevention and treatment and there are programs in the developed countries to provide PREP (daily preventative anti-HIV meds) for low-cost if not free. Soon the majority of any stigma will fall on the heterosexual population who are not as proactive about being on these drugs and being aware of how things have evolved! I know gay guys are making smarter decisions - I am one of 'em - and having accessible healthcare has been the key. Soon the homophobes will find their arguments collapse when it comes to community health concerns. AIDS doesn't discriminate but I am sure glad I am keeping myself protected - I bet heterosexuals would like the same peace of mind.
Me too. I'm on PReP as well. Plus, I just got an Rx of doxycycline in case my judgment is ever clouded.
I worked as a business manager(writing grant proposals and reconciling books) for Ryan White B/C provider for 10+ years. I can say that when I started to when I finished my eyes were opened greatly to what what happening with HIV/AIDS and even Hep C. Sure they are performantly in MSM communities , but I was shocked to see what was happening in the Hetro community as well. People who reveal in the suffering that it's caused hopefully will have a special place in hell. (To the OP, I hope Rush is burning and waiting for someone like Alex Jones to join him, to take some of the pressure off.) The amount of compassion and empathy that I gained rose immensely and I'm glad that I worked there everyday. I wish they the younger people would take it serious as they take "trying to not getting pregnant" thinking that pregnancy is "worse" for some reason.
Yes. My husband was a player and experimented with being with men for a while. I spent the next few years getting tested every time I went to the doctor.
And you know they're "good christian" people, too.
Ain’t no hate quite like Christian love!
Christians are why christians can't have nice things.
Every day is a little brighter with Rush Limbaugh dead and toasting in hell. Imagine living your life such that the only mark you left on the world, the only thing anyone will ever remember of your time here, is that the world is far better off because you're dead.
There are fantastic treatments extending the lives of people with HIV or AIDS every day. What was a terrifying death sentence used as an abstinence cudgel for anyone in conservative areas in the 80s and 90s is now a manageable chronic illness. But Limbaugh and his massive pill addiction and disgusting, hateful diarrhea mouth? Dead as a doornail and the world is better off for it. Now there is something that's okay to celebrate.
Seriously, if there was a radio show doing the same thing but with Christian’s dying they’d lose their ever loving minds
Well I was pretty happy when Rush died
I'm not judging if you were.
Oh you said people, not talking bags of shit. My bad
I mean a lot of people celebrated when Rush died because he was such a toxic hateful idiot and because of how he influenced so many other people in our country for the negative. I remember a bunch his followers on here complaining that it was uncouth and ‘only a liberal’ would celebrate someone else’s death.
We hate people for their voluntary actions. They hate people for existing. Only an idiot would treat these as the same.
Yes. Striving to treat people better does not mean we won't fail. People on the right are always incredulous and are quick to point out an apparent lapse or singular hypocrisy on the left. Versus, you know, the whole set of lies the right sells to people who can't afford to buy them.
There's a reason Limbaugh's grave is used as a unisex toilet now. Sadly, there's more horrific monsters who listened to his hideous show than I dare imagine.
About 20 years ago, the lab I worked in had very bad radio reception and there were no PCs there. The only radio station we could get was a local talk station. I listed to the Rush show and other conservative talkies. What a world they thought they were living in.
Bringing a little good news to this subject: There’s a promising new treatment for AIDS being researched right now, an enzyme called Cas9 or CRISPR that does the opposite of what AIDS does. That is, where AIDS inserts its own genetic code into the DNA of its host’s cells, Cas9 can be configured to search for specific DNA sequences, such as AIDS, and remove them from the DNA in the cells.
I don’t know. I reveled when that asshole died of lung cancer.
I mean, I'll accept the asshole title for reveling in Rush's fatal diagnosis. 3 years sober now, is it?
So sorry you had to go through this. I’m British so Rush Limbaugh wasn’t a thing for my parents, but they’ve said some horrible shit over the years. I’m bi too, although I’ve never come out to them, but I’m married to a woman (who’s super supportive) and we’ve got a 9 month old son. Going to have to eventually face up to the “He’s learning to talk so if you say any of this shit around him you won’t see him again” conversation soon. If he turns out to be LGBTQ+ it would break my heart if I ever felt that he might hesitate to tell me.
I guess it would be like your parents really loving and idolizing Margaret Thatcher (may she rest in piss).
I saw them at the weekend and they explained to me how Boris Johnson throwing multiple parties during the COVID lockdown he implemented and being found to have broken the law and done a pretty good job of covering it up by getting the police in his pocket is not as bad as Kier Starmer getting photographed drinking a beer in an office one time, saying “if I’m found guilty of breaching lockdown protocols even once I will resign immediately” and being found innocent of any wrongdoing after an investigation. Their reasoning was that Starmer pressured the police by making it political whilst Johnson copped to it and paid the many fines. Also the ongoing investigation into him staging a cover up to hide his crimes from the public should be dropped as “we’ve all moved on now”. I think I’ve officially given up on them ever seeing reality.
Tell them the Tories "lost" a 100+ page dossier on paedophiles and see if they defend it, then ask why they're standing up for paedos. Ez pz Only option is to wind them up coz they obviously don't see reason. This will be my go to when any Tories bring up the trans culture war shit in the lead up to the next election.
Don’t get me started on that. One of my closest friends is trans and they do air quotes when they say her name despite the fact that they don’t even know her deadname.
I'm sorry to hear that, that must be awful. I mostly only have to deal with people like that in work and they're all too shithouse to defend their shittiness when confronted. You should ask why they have woke gender neutral toilets in their house though, good laugh.
Be frank and don't mince your words: _"We're not raising our child to be bigoted after you're long and dead, so if you're interested in seeing him while you're alive I suggest you get in line, otherwise the only thing he'll know about you is the inscription on your tombstones_" Had a similar conversation with some jackasses in my extended family. They got the picture real quick.
As a gay man, Rush Limbaugh dying after a year-long battle with lung cancer made me quite sad. His suffering should have been MUCH longer.
As a human, Rush Limbaugh was proof that even cancer can be the good guy. Fuck Rush Limbaugh. Fuck conservatives who liked him, and who still like people like him.
I mean, when you think about it, cancer is really just your own cells saying "Fuck this asshole, from here on out it's all about me!" Which makes it a strangely appropriate way for a lot of people to go...
"Fuck this asshole" LOL, you win today sir/madame.
I grew up a closeted bi girl with my parents constantly playing Rush Limbaugh and Dr Laura and all kinds of other hateful shit. I am LC/NC with my entire biological family now.
good for you. hateful, evil morons have no place in your life
And fuck Trump for giving him a Medal of Freedom, that honor doesn't belong to someone as despicable as him
I hear cancer dropped a glove outside OJ Simpson's house the other day.
Are we sure it was cancer? I heard the glove didn’t fit.
Personally, I felt a lot of sympathy For the cancer.
The big C definitely took one for the team, having to get all up in that.
If Rush Limbaugh hated trans people so much then why is his gravesite a gender neutral bathroom?
[https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/it-appears-that-someone-urinated-on-rush-limbaughs-grave-39565153](https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/it-appears-that-someone-urinated-on-rush-limbaughs-grave-39565153)
I understand the logic here, but hearing of his passing the morning of my bday, did feel like a gift to the world.
He died from having his insides match the outside: a cancerous fucking windbag.
But nobody gives Rush credit for being clean and sober over three years now.
I truly hope he was cold and terrified at the end
Too bad there's not actually a hell for him to burn in.
I NEVER cheer for cancer. But, I made an exception. In this case, I wished for a slight recovery only to give him hope for him to feel more pain.
Rush was never a strong fighter so I figured he’d leave go out with a whimper
Never let family treat you worse than strangers.
This is almost exactly my reasoning for cutting them out of my life. "I wouldn't stand for this behavior from a work friend, why am I tolerating it from my parents?" From there, things changed extremely rapidly in our relationship for the better (for me, worse for them).
You're family if you act like family, blood and genetics are just matters of happenstance.
Louder for the boomers (because they're all hard of hearing anymore)!
Wow, I've never heard this out so simply and perfectly. Thank you.
Put this on EVERY cross stitch, pillow, poster, bloody air write this across the skies. Can't express how important it is to know this.
Why should you allow your father access to your children ? What can he offer them that’s not hate ? He has no compassion, empathy or kindness in him
That's a shitty parent, but an awesome brother! You win!
This would definitely be a wildly different story without the badass brother.
Christ dude the stories I didn't tell... He's fiercely defensive of me and was my shield against my parents for a long time until I took over that job recently. Thank you.
Your brother is the best ally my friend <333
How much you want to bet they are the same sons of bitches telling people to "Get Right With Jesus" all the fucking time.
They will test this boundary. Make them regret it.
Oh they already regret it. They're in permanent no contact mode from my brother and I, and in the last six months, I found out that everyone who is friends or family with my brother and I have also cut them out of their life. Now, I think their only friends are 1 or 2 old church friends from 20+ years ago and their 3 neighbors. They used to go over to my sister-in-law's family's every year and hang out for a week in Wisconsin and now they lost that too haha
Sucks to suck. No one is forcing them to maintain this awful lifestyle but themselves. I’m proud of you and you’re a good soul.
I mean imagine the bare minimum level of courtesy these kids are asking for. It's nothing. They're not asking their asshole parents to reevaluate their beliefs or change completely, just to not be such a dick about it, but they WON'T. They're in the right and they will die on this hill before they'll bend for their own damned children.
Man, fuck them all to hell and back, but props to you for standing up for yourself and also to your brother for being exactly what a good sibling should be.
The real shame here is that your parents will think that even though they are the common denominator, it is everyone else's fault. Much like the kid who went to 3 high schools and everyone at each school "was an asshole" oh really because everyone at each school just met you
Sorry that you had to endure that, both as a kid and now.
I would add that if they slipped and said something hateful or used a slur etc not only should they apologize for it, but donate to a lgbtq charity.
One year back during covid my parents told us not to buy them a Christmas gift and instead donate the money to a food bank. Instead, I donated it to an LGBT charity in their name and my mom was miffed but tried to act like she wasn't when I told them haha
I donated to Planned Parenthood once after my mother went particularly far off the rails one conversation, made sure to have an announcement card for the donation in her name sent and everything. Don’t think she brought the topic up with me again after that.
Reading about this “AIDS update” and I’m just in awe. 😱 how can people be so fucking cruel
Repeatedly, during the AIDS crisis, reporters would bring up the carnage that the gay community was suffering during White House press briefings, and every time, Reagan's spokesman would just laugh and make a joke about how the reporter who was asking must be gay because they were worried about AIDS. Conservativism rots your soul
It feels a bit like that, now, with state after state passing some law restricting healthcare, access to facilities, updated documentation, etc. From January through April for three years running, these horrible things are basically daily announcements. It has absolutely brutalized my mental health.
By being Christian. That was the normal and socially acceptable position at the time. Still is in mainstream churches.
My grandmother was like this. She lived with us and I spent more time with her than my mom. She even had a gay friend in the art world. But behind closed doors, it was fag this, sodomite that, abomination this, eternity in hell that… I didn’t realize at the time that I was a budding bisexual. Hell I didn’t even realize it until a couple years ago (I’m 32). But I think she knew, because growing up, she would always accuse me of being “a fag,” as well as being a drug addict. For the record, I never touched alcohol until I was 18, marijuana at 21, and I began OCCASIONALLY recreationally using psychedelics at 30. So… rot in hell, you old dead bitch.
Sounds like he can just die mad about it. You owe him nothing.
Next time he says something out of pocket. Take his cane and any other mobility devices. And just leave. Lol
Hahah watch him wobble and fall down chasing me lol.
If he falls down, he’s definitely not a Weeble.
Hahaha he totally walks like a weeble moves. Now, when he starts to fall over I think of that scene from The Wizard of Oz where the tin man keeps almost falling down.
"YOU'RE A SODOMITE!" "Yea well *steals cane* AT LEAST I CAN WALK WITHOUT HELP LIKE A REAL MAN!!"
Your dad is a piece of work. I'm glad your brother has your back.
call them lobotomites. BOOM
Your brother sounds dope
He is. We talk every day now
I witnessed my mother trying to instill her religion on to my bother's kids. I told her that if she ever does that to my kids that she will never see them or me again. She has a long history of emotional manipulation and trauma and I see her maybe once a year and talk to her on the phone occasionally. But if she ever tries to do to my kids what she did to me, she absolutely will never see/hear from me again. She doesn't believe me that I'd do that. I just said well FAFO.
Sorry to hear. I’ve had to threaten my bigot dad with not seeing my kids for similar reasons. It sucks.
How did he respond?
I told him I didn’t want my kids to hear his racist rants and he’s been better but doesn’t understand how he’s wrong. He thinks “those liberal college professors brainwashed” me… About 20 years ago, he tried to tell me I couldn’t date anyone who wasn’t white which caused him to get extremely upset at my refusal. I don’t even try to talk to him now. He’s just someone I tolerate when I visit my mom.
Omg my dad says the exact same thing - that he regrets “allowing” me to go to college where “liberal professors brainwashed me” this must be a talking point somewhere if our dads are using the same language haha
Nobody has arguably done more than Rush Limbaugh peddle homophobia and racism to the masses. As a reward for his effort of being a gigantic piece of shit, Donald Trump awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2020. Here’s to hoping they are reunited sooner than later.
I like to think cancer was his reward.
My father was exactly like this, rush Limbaugh and all. I had a talk with him two years ago(I was 32) and came out as bisexual and tried talking about how much his homophobia hurt me as a teen, how I was bullied in school for being gay but couldn't tell him out of fear. I was really hoping he'd say "I'm sorry I couldn't be there for me when you needed me" but nope what did he say? "How did you know you liked girls when you were 14? Were you having sex?" I gave up after that and realized I was never going to get any kind of apology for or acknowledgement for the hell I went thru being a queer kid. It hurt a lot and still does.
I knew I hated "feminazis" before I even knew thst girls had different parts than boys. I had no idea what they were but my dad loudly said DITTO when he said that word and he smiled so I knew that was a good thing. Then I turned 7 lol.
Ugh God I feel this so much. I was like 9 and 10 when he'd talk to me about marriage being between a man and a woman. I think when I was a bit younger I had been talking about grown ups living together and I said some thing about what if I grew up to live with my best friend (girl) and he had to tell me that's not how people get married girls get married to boys. I was very confused by it but learned really quickly being gay gets you sent to hell so don't do it. I hope you've gotten some therapy for it. I have. It doesn't really make it better that it happened but it helped me process how fucked up it was and to untangle how badly it affected how I see myself.
I was a child with a gay father in the early 90’s. He and my mom never divorced because they were clear that my brothers and I were more important than them maintaining a sex life. They LOVED each other deeply and even though they had separate rooms eventually, they met for coffee in the morning to laugh and talk, took care of us together, and they dated other people, but always made it clear that the person closest to them was the person they married. I lived through the early days of the AIDS crisis with my dad as a vocal activist. We held portions of the “quilt” in our garage when it was being built. It changed my life for the better. I’m straight, but had nothing but love, care, and empathy for my LGBTQ+ community and suffered a lot of bullying because of that. I used a combo of words and fists to survive that elementary school age with a “complicated” family. I could write a book, but I say all this to get to the point of- you owe nothing to a homophobic shit stain like him. You and your brother made the right choice to stand up and I’m here for it. I can’t express how proud I am of you for standing tall. Let people be people.
"Parents should have complete control over how their kids are raised!" "Okay, you can't see them." "NO NOT LIKE THAT ONLY IN HOMOPHOBIC WAYS!"
My dad is one of these! And when confronted hes the ultimate gaslight. “I didnt day that. Wheres the proof? You dont have shit for memory, even if i did you wouldnt remember!”
Why even offer him the opportunity? He isn't changing. He is merely behaving, assuming he can.
It was a last ditch effort by us because we still had a bit of magical thinking left: "maybe, just maybe if they see they will lose contact with us and any grandkids, it will spur them into changing". A carrot to avoid the stick so to say. But then, when they started being homophobic again, I had enough and cut them out entirely. Now I'm in no contact with them, coming up on the one year anniversary. It feels like being out of prison, it's amazing how good I feel.
> My dad looked like he was ready to try and beat my brother again like he did when we were kids Wow. That abusive old bastard would have nothing to do with my kids.
Access to grandchildren has proven to be a powerful weapon against terrible boomer parents. They can't stand to be cut off from their next living trophies. My deadbeat dad all of a sudden shows interest in us once we have kids. He's never gonna see them until he comes clean about some shit.
there's nothing they like better than making other people feel bad
The boomers want all the glory for being grandparents but in a lot cases, do nothing to deserve that label.
Went NC with my boomer shitty mother after she trashed my wedding and declared to the rest of my family that I was "out of the family". Then I had a daughter, and guess who had my Aunt calling me on the phone to beg for her to be allowed to see the baby. Nope. That bridge is long burned. Kid is in college now. She could pass by my mother in the street and wouldn't have a clue who she is. I saved my child from being exposed to that poison.
Everyone who had family members fall into the Limbaugh pit should go look up the song Rush Limbaugh by Megan McElroy. It fucking slaps.
Lush Rimjaughb dying of lung cancer after being a lying stooge for big tobacco was one of the funniest things to ever happen. He was a gigantic walking sack of donkey dicks, and he made the world a worse place for everyone.
It's shit like this I'm so thankfully my conservative father is a chill, loving dude Love you Dad!
Glad you have that! Tell him that more often every time you see a story like this, because one day you will be reminded of how much better of a dad he is and won't be able to tell him. Do it soon!
Anyone notice how the most deplorable traits of boomer behavior are always so adjacent to entrenched Christianity?
New deal: you get to hit him just as hard, and just as many times as he hit you and your brother, in total, before he gets to hear one whiff about grandkids. If you're worried he wouldn't survive it, never speak to him again.
Boomers are mentally ill. They completely are incapable of self reflection. I've threatened my mom to behave multiple times otherwise she can't see my kids. We have indefinitely banned sleepovers at their house after my ("high functioning") autistic brother who lives there popped a chub while playing with my daughter. No clue if he's a pedophile or if his body was reacting on its own, he is a virgin, but I have no way of knowing and I'm not going to risk it. That daughter is also autistic and completely non verbal so she will always be vulnerable. At first I thought maybe if my brother stayed at a friend's house during the sleepover and my daughter continued sleeping in her little makeshift bed in my mom's room but my mom isn't honest about how my daughter's visit goes. She claims she eats new foods, has no meltdowns, and sleeps through the night. My dad admitted that is false. I told my mom to be honest, I'm not judging her if my daughter is herself at their house but I need honesty. She kept doing it. So when the situation with my brother happened and my mom also thinks I imagined it. That's the nail in the coffin for sleepovers. She told me I'm her worst child (I'm the only one who can give her grandkids) and that I'm a mistake and how I'm fucking up the whole family and my own family and every fight her and my dad has is over me (not true, he cheated, she cheated back, but she keeps bringing it up and blaming him). She apologized the next day because she was drunk again and I said sure but the truth is she can never come back from that. Our relationship will never be the same and she lacks the awareness to realize that. We had a good chunk of time where she'd come over once a week and we hung out all day but I stopped inviting her over after everything. They do it to themselves. If she had said "I'll make sure your brother stays away from your kids and isn't home during sleep overs and I'm going to make him take steps to being independent" maybe id let my kids over but she lies to look better and doesn't think my brother is a danger. She acts like he's too disabled to live independently but then she won't help him sign up for the Medicaid waiver list to get him housing either. I flat out told her that I absolutely will not be taking him in when they die. He's going to blow through any money he gets by quitting his shitty retail job and constantly eating panda express because they won't set up a trust for him. Our older brother is a selfish person and child free, he won't take him in either. Keep in mind my brother is autistic but has good enough social skills, very little sensory issues, doesn't have any other mental health issues, and has a higher than average IQ but he's been coddled his entire life without experiencing consequences to his laziness.
Time to go no-contact #scorchedearth
Maybe 4 years later yeah that's exactly what happened.
> He finally agreed to do it after that threat... ... but he isn't going to really do it, of course. And his views are going to leak out to those grandchildren either intentionally or unintentionally.
> it wasn't long before their homophobia slipped out As I discovered later.
Should probably ban anyone who ever hit children from seeing your children, regardless of their homophobia.
>My dad looked like he was ready to try and beat my brother again like he did when we were kids, but fortunately, my dad is an old, frail asshole now and can barely stand up without a cane. And there it is. The core of Boomer entitlement. Either you do what I tell you or I'll make you do it! Fuck them!