Dana Gould tweet about Rush Limbaugh is on point.

[Swede]

Link to tweet

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[dchill]

1. Then what was the Medal of Freedom for?

Answer me THAT!

[dalton99a]

3. For exposing the hoax about the dangers of smoking

"That is a myth. That has been disproven at the World Health Organization and the report was suppressed. There is no fatality whatsoever. There's no even major sickness component associated with secondhand smoke. It may irritate you, and you may not like it, but it will not make you sick, and it will not kill you...Firsthand smoke takes 50 years to kill people, if it does. Not everybody that smokes gets cancer. Now, it's true that everybody who smokes dies, but so does everyone who eats carrots ... I would like a medal for smoking cigars, is what I'm saying."

[SCantiGOP]

16. Excellent point

[texasleo]

30. Can Biden revoke it?

Asking for 80 million friends.

[madinmaryland]

2. Limbaugh sired no children and left four wives...

So in a way he successfully Darwin’ed himself without even realizing it.

To add, there was a DUer on here years ago who knew a relative Limbaugh.

[dchill]

5. With Trump Jr extant, it's good there's no Limbaugh Jr.

[keithbvadu2]

11. But Rushbo liked children. He took someone else's Viagra to a known child prostitution resort area

But Rushbo liked children.

He took someone else's Viagra to a known child prostitution resort area.

[SCantiGOP]

17. He had a cousin

who was a State Representative from the coast of SC. He was a GOP jerk, but not noteworthy.

[madinmaryland]

27. He has a brother, David, also a conservative talker.

[lees1975]

4. He advocated killing all of the tools of Democracy

like the give and take of compromise, negotiation and discussion of issues. He promoted tyranny of the right without apology.

You're exactly right, he was an angry, frustrated bigot and bully. He was, simply put, the epitome of deplorable.

[Ohioboy]

36. He used to always accuse democrats of cheating in elections without any proof

He set the stage for all the lies that Trump would eventually tell.

[dweller]

6. May the same legacy

apply to the twice impeached defeated former guy …
I know, wishful thinking …

✌🏻

[dgauss]

7. He didn't leave ideas worth mentioning but he left a template.

That's the lasting impact and damage of Limbaugh.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. That is a brilliant observation.......

He only showed the world how easy it is to spread misery and discord.
What a waste of a life - and we're paying the consequences.......

[LiberalLovinLug]

26. Yup. He was the biggest pioneer of toxic insulting lying about anything deemed LIB-RUL

Whether it was gay marriage
Women's choice
The addict even had the balls to rail against softer drug laws.

Tucker Carlson learned his craft from him for sure. Raising hell on earth, worst case scenerios, to frighten older white people about the end of their God given closed minded culture. The dictatorship of inclusiveness and fairness will be their ruin. To them they feel forced to accept the "other" into the community, into sports, into entertainment. No more Leave it to Beaver.

[SpankMe]

8. Good Tweet, and true

But he caused a lot of damage while he was alive. Damage that hurt people. Fuck Rush. I'm glad he's dead.

[kskiska]

10. I've been thinking the same thing.

And they buried him like a dog. Out of sight, out of mind. And his airtime is now dead as a doornail.

[delisen]

12. Limbaugh was just a manipulator, no depth, no meaning.

I had noticed even his follower ears just moved on, as though he had never been here.

What does it mean, that one can fill a large part of one’s life with filler and when that at filler disappears you just find another filler. No muss, no fuss, there is always more filler.

[AZLD4Candidate]

13. Same thing with Father Coughlin.

[Orrex]

14. Know what you'd get if you pumped Limbaugh's coffin full of liquid pig shit?

No discernable difference.

[mountain grammy]

15. He poisoned many hearts and minds

Left a trail of destruction.

[czarjak]

18. Legacy Limbaugh left a black mark as intended. Dittos B Dittos

[orleans]

20. POS BLOVIATOR

i used to turn his show on once in awhile (know thy enemy) and i remember him crying about how the manatees were dying. seemed he talked about them for a number of weeks.

i remember how surprised i was to hear it--a whisper of humanity. (a fluke!)

then it was gone and he was his usual pos again

[LakeArenal]

21. Rush Limpbob ruined both my parents.

[SCantiGOP]

28. My Dad was first in my Southern family

To vote repub, starting with Goldwater 64, and in his latter years listened to nothing but FOX, but he despised Limbaugh. He never liked blowhards, and said Rush reminded him of all the big mouth jerks he ran into at work.

[UTUSN]

22. Au contraire: Singlehandedly foisted the Scorched Earth divisiveness on all of us

[newdayneeded]

23. Another thing

I stated on here before his death that he's the hate radio king pin, once he's gone it will get much quieter. Today in my northern state, he of course is gone, but there's no Hannity either. just some "rush light has beens that never were". I'm guessing once he was gone a lot of car radios got switched to music or sports talk, etc.

[calimary]

24. Shit! I was just thinking that!

Anybody hear his name mentioned anymore? By anybody? For a guy who cast such a loud shadow over talk radio for as long as he did, NOW? You wouldn't even know he was ever a factor. I don't hear or see anybody talking about him, reminiscing about him, remembering outrageous quotes from his show, mentioning him either for good or bad. Never see his name in print, or his "legacy" referred to, to the plus or to the minus.

Frankly, his very existence irked me to NO end. I hate it when the bad guys win, or the schmuck gets the prize or the evildoer gets rich. So it's struck me that this is probably the cruelest turn of events that could befall ANY villain, who caused as much divisiveness and damage, and stirred up as much anger and hatred as this jackass did. Nobody cares about him anymore. He's gone and forgotten. And as the tweet says: he left NOTHING. He offered NOTHING of value. Nothing of sustenance that fed the spirit and lifted the soul. Nothing - for what will help getting you through difficulty or adversity. Nothing. No monuments to that bastard, no foundations or institutions dedicated to keeping his memory alive. Nothing keeping him in the public's mind.

And I couldn't be happier about that. Wherever that bastard wound up, he would HATE it. That will be the unkindest fate that could possibly befall him.

[LittleGirl]

25. My siblings and cousins that listened to him

have all gone to the dark side of life.
They are hateful, revengeful and are going to die a long slow death from their whataboutism.

[Marcuse]

29. I was reminded of Rush when Ted Cruz begged Tucker's forgiveness for denouncing the insurrection.

[halfulglas]

31. Unfortunately the great harm he did outlives him.

Listening to him turned my MIL from an elderly conservative to someone I dreaded being around because believed he "tells it like it is."

Why conservative people are drawn to people with little real education but can talk a lot of BS as if they know it to be true is beyond me. He wasn't the first but unfortunately he spawned so many clones that it metastasized and to their followers they have more cred than those trying to spread truth.

[jmowreader]

32. I disagree on the "contributed nothing"...

…but completely agree with the “worthwhile” part.

You know how lots of new rock bands claim The Beatles as their inspiration, even though the last record they made as a group is 52 years old and half the band has passed on? Limbaugh is like that. That slimy bastard is the inspiration for the entire hard right media empire. Name the RW media blight - Glenn Beck, Fox News, Alex Jones, Newsmax TV, OANN, any of them - and you can trace their bile directly back to Rush Limbaugh.

And it’s going to take 200 years to rid this country of his evil, if that’s even possible.

[dupagelib]

33. Right-wing malignant narcissist.

I hope he was buried face down.

[DENVERPOPS]

34. I understand that where he is buried

there is no grass around his grave. And in fact his grave rests in the middle of a football sized slab of concrete complete with drains.
And, also has a set of lawn sprinklers directed onto the slab, that showers the concrete slab every night at sundown to wash down the slab.............

[FakeNoose]

35. This guy is obviously NOT a DUer

We invoke Limbaugh's name constantly on DU. Mainly every time we blame the evil right-wingers who are responsible for f*cking up this country in the last 50 years. Limbaugh is personally responsible for 30 of the last 50 years.

[Faux pas]

37. That's funny

I was just thing about that dead asshole yesterday and thought about the damage he did while he was here. Don't miss him at all.

[Grokenstein]

38. He convinced a generation of angry idiots that their uninformed, reactionary opinions

were as valid as those of any educated "elitist," or facts themselves.

We will be dealing with the consequences for a long time.