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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Rush Limbaugh Urges GOP Off the Cliff

Deriding the apparent shock of the Republican Establishment at not-Romney Rick Santorum's sweeping victories last night, a shock that registers the terrible realization by that Establishment of the true nature and cost of the Devil's bargain they made when they played footsie with the Teabaggers to win the Mid-Terms rather than actually re-assess the Movement Republicanism that nearly destroyed them and the country in its catastrophic consummation in the Killer Clown Administration of George W. Bush, Limbaugh ranted and railed from his toilet throne, cheering the GOP Base on to oblivion. The rest of America, and the world, may just manage not to skitter past the edge with them in an aria of thermonuclear explosions and Greenhouse storms, but I daresay that danger and that hope scarcely troubles Limbaugh's thoughts any more than does his personal role in the devastation of the political party to whom he owes everything. Of course, Limbaugh expects his own fall to be cushioned by the big pile of money he's made inciting the worst, ugliest, most destructive and self-destructive impulses of his party all these years. When the GOP is consigned at last to the utter marginality either of a Neo-Confederate rump without even the pretension of mustering the support to govern nationally or of a loyal opposition tinkering conservatively and mostly harmlessly around the edges of a secular sustainable social democratic American multiculture like a domesticated pet (David Frum's alternative recommendation), Limbaugh's brand of full-throated reactionary idiocy will soon enough no longer be any kind of force in the world, and as a consequence of the very Movement Republicanism whose drum he has beaten for years and so beaten his country black and blue. No doubt he plans to retire in comfort to his bubble-dome palace contemplating the ruins from his banquet table and sex dungeon like some low-rent Baron Harkonnen locomoting in mid-air among sneering sycophants and photogenic slaves by means of a constant spray of noisome farts.

3 comments:

jollyspaniard said...

Limbaugh believes his own bullshit I'm sure in the same way that a top salesman "believes" his product is the best. The best salesman have the cognitive dissonance dialed up to levels most people couldn't sustain without our heads exploding.

The GOP going off a cliff wouldn't necessarily be bad business for Limbaugh.

I'd like to see the GOP turn into the party you describe. But before they start talking like the editorial board of The Economist magazine I suspect the populists are going to steal the keys to the clown car and take it on a self destructive joyride. Actually that's not a prediction, it's already happening.

jimf said...

> Limbaugh ranted and railed from his toilet throne, cheering
> the GOP Base on to oblivion. The rest of America, and the
> world, may just manage not to skitter past the edge with them
> in an aria of thermonuclear explosions and Greenhouse storms,
> but I daresay that danger and that hope scarcely troubles
> Limbaugh's thoughts. . .

Rush Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan walked into a bar. . .

From your blogroll:

http://grist.org/climate-change/cohort-replacement-climate-deniers-wont-change-but-they-will-die/
---------------
"I don’t think the climate deniers will ever change their
minds. What will happen is that they will, to put it bluntly,
die off."
---------------

But, but, but! What about the climate-change-denying cryonicists who
are going to be frozen and resurrected? (Let's hope global warming
doesn't thaw them out before their time, eh?)

And what about the climate-change-denying
>Hists and Singularitarians who are going to have their minds
uploaded? (Hey, I guess they don't have much to worry about.
Greg Egan's polis-dwelling uploads in _Diaspora_ survived a gamma-ray
burst that wiped out Earth's remaining fleshers without batting their
nanocircuit eyelashes. Good thing their buried supercomputers
were EMP-hardened.)

On the other hand:

---------------
"This is a cohort that has convinced itself that bike
paths are a U.N. plot. And I don’t mean 'bike paths
are a U.N. plot' in some sort of satirical, poetic-license
sort of way. They really believe bike paths are a U.N. plot."
---------------

I can confirm that -- I have inside information.
It's absolutely true.

;->

Dale Carrico said...

what about the climate-change-denying >Hists and Singularitarians who are going to have their minds
uploaded?


I daresay such climate change denialism helps account for why Robot Cultists would choose a city full of anti-science Republicans in a desert over a depleting aquifer to park their corpse-sickles to techno-heaven in...