The downfall of the right
POSTED BY: SignyM
UPDATED: Sunday, August 30, 2026 17:08
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Citizen! Where have you been? You all but disappeared there for a bit....
No offense Sig, but you're doing here what I think (though I could be wrong) you accuse Rap of doing. Just posting something partisan to get a reaction.
Both sides see the downfall of the other side eminent (ooh, a couple possible spellings for that one, Kwicko 
). So crowing about it now is a bit premature, dontchathink? There will, indeed, be a teeter-totter of power, back and forth, for quite some time to come until One side gets too big for it's britches and decides to get off when it's on the bottom. The only problem with that is the inevitable downfall and crash of the other side once that happens.
Hee hee. Like what I did there? I thought that up all on my lonesome.
Zoe: "Get it running again."
Mal: "Yeah"
Zoe: "So not running now"
Mal: "Not so much"
- Out of Gas
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"Whether Rush is still an addict or not, is his business."
Except, he made it HIS bidness if other people were:
"Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be
convicted and they ought to be sent up."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html
"What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use, too many whites are getting away with drug sales, too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html
"It's kind of like sentencing. A lot of people say that we have a heavy sentence for this crime and a light sentence for another crime, and what we ought to do is reduce the heavy sentence so it's more in line with the other. Wrong. In most cases we ought to increase the light sentence and make it compatible with the heavy sentence, and be serious about punishment because we are becoming too tolerant as a society, folks, especially of crime, in too many parts of the country."
-- Rush Limbaugh. October 5, 1995 show transcript.
http://www.takebackthemedia.com/gophotwrush.html
"There’s nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up," Mr. Limbaugh declared on his radio show on October 5th, 1995.***
These tough sentencing laws were instituted for a reason. The American people, including liberals, demanded them. Don't you remember the crack cocaine epidemic? Crack babies and out-of-control murder rates? Liberal judges giving the bad guys slaps on the wrist? Finally we got tough, and the crime rate has been falling ever since, so what's wrong?
--RushLimbaugh.com (8/18/03)
In the audio link below, I go into detail about these non-thinking talking points that "you can't tell people what to do with their bodies" and "you can't legislate morality." First of all, we tell people what they can do to their bodies all the time--no cocaine, no prostitution, no throwing yourself off a building. Second, laws are nothing but defining morality!
--RushLimbaugh.com (6/27/03)
When you strip it all away, Jerry Garcia destroyed his life on drugs. And yet he's being honored, like some godlike figure. Our priorities are out of whack, folks.
--Rush Limbaugh radio show (quoted in the L.A. Times, 8/20/95)
I want to let you read along with me a quote from Jerry Colangelo about substance abuse, and I think you'll find that he's very much right…"I know every expert in the world will disagree with me, but I don't buy into the disease part of it. The first time you reach for a substance you are making a choice. Every time you go back, you are making a personal choice. I feel very strongly about that."...
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What goes around, comes around.
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Both sides see the downfall of the other side eminent (ooh, a couple possible spellings for that one, Kwicko ).
And I think the one you're looking for is "imminent". That is, if you also believed that Iraq was an "imminent threat".
Unless you meant that it was standing out, jutting out, or conspicuous. That would be "eminent". The Pope is eminent. His death is imminent.
If you meant certain or impending, hanging over one's head threateningly, then "imminent" is your word.
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...One side gets too big for it's britches and decides to get off when it's on the bottom.
Okay, is it just me, or is that statement just fraught with Freudian imagery? Too big for its britches, so it decides to "get off" when it's on bottom?
Made me snicker a bit, it did!
Well played. Or plaid, if you're a Tartan.
Mike
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Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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So, Rush commenting on drugs makes it his business ? How do you figure ?
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Rush commenting on PEOPLE using drugs is him making it his business.
Understand he is not commenting on 'drugs' - describing their mode of action, physical form, purity and melting point, solubilities.
He is talking about PEOPLE.
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Quote:Hey! Rush earned the names doughboy, hillbilly heroin addict, viagara-popping, draft-dodging know nothing! Shoot, man- those are his claims to fame!! Don't take that away from him!
It's the baseless name calling
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They pit us like dogs against each other and rake it in. And I'll bet they laugh when they hear dupes like you defend the system that fucks you over and rewards them so nicely! But the one thing they'll stamp out in horror as if it were the spark of conflagration is any whiff of socialism. That should tell you something.
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Wooo....he's talking about PEOPLE
So fucking what ? He can't pass any laws, he can't sentence anyone. He has no POWER to do anything. Why's it such an issue w/ you ?
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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Wooo....he's talking about PEOPLE
So fucking what ? He can't pass any laws, he can't sentence anyone. He has no POWER to do anything. Why's it such an issue w/ you ?
He may have "no POWER", but he's got influence, especially over people like YOU. Influence is its own kind of power.
And ya know, President Obama can't pass any laws or sentence anyone either, so what's your problem with HIM?
Mike
Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day...
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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Quote:My inner Grammar Nazi is appalled by this AU, the word you were looking to use was "wont."
Originally posted by AURaptor:
many his age are want to do
Biped.
The laughing Chrisisall
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How afraid some people are of Rush Limbaugh speaks volumes. Exactly how do some people think the influence of the Right is diminishing while they are so preoccupied with the voice of single individual? Seems to be that if someone actually did believe that the right had no or diminishing influence then they certainly wouldn't care about some talk show host they don't listen to anyway. Yet, they do.
Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.
Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.
-- Cicero
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