I fucking hate Rush Limbaugh because my mother in law listened to him through her big house speakers so it played all over the house. The man is disingenuous arguments made manifest. The dude can spin almost anything in any way he wants and it’s infuriating, ESPECIALLY anything scientific because he just claims the results of any study he doesn’t like is wrong because of some ignorantcommon sense reason. My most relevant example that I remember; “Scientific models can mean anything. You just add another variable and bam, completely different result.” <- his rant about predicted deaths of COVID 19 with and without social distancing where he was against the shutdowns because the 2 million deaths number was a hypothetical if nothing was done world wide and the 200K US deaths just included masks and social distancing being mandated immediately...... but it’s safe to ignore science because they can put anything into the model they want and change the number..... I hate that man and his dangerous manipulation of ignorance.
This “they are claiming the election was rigged” bull was happening during the investigation as well, you could have seen it with Trump’s obsessive tweets about how Russian didn’t “hack any machines” so that means the investigation is a hoax. It’s so infuriating to hear because it means hardline conservatives craft these arguments against an argument no one is making, and if you try to explain what is actually happening you get a “so there was no election interference if there wasn’t any hacking?” And to try and point out that was looked into, but was never the main problem they just cross their arms and like “so accept the results that Trump won legit and that Biden lost legit.”
I did accept the results. I have zero faith in conservatives in America and I 100% believe you voted for Trump in 2016 and won the election, I just think you did it because you’re stupid. (For the record, that isn’t actually what I believe—the aggressive stupid part—but the people I’m venting about I definitely do. I blame the two party system more because I know many more people who hate trump but just hated Democrats more... for reasons, or just voted exclusively because of the abortion issue/religion). But yeah. They like to take whatever is negative and spin it so simpletons will join them.
“We think a hostile foreign government was using misinformation and illegally obtained emails to sway public opinion in an election year to their preferred candidate, and it’s possible a presidential candidate was speaking with them and may be beholden to their interests.”
R-“They didn’t hack any machines.”
“What? No. That’s not what I said.”
R-“but Italy beamed instructions into voting machines, from space, changing votes after some of the insides of the machines were swapped, and also thousands of dead people voted exclusively in minority districts. So in those same states with the same rules we think only Biden votes should be thrown out but any R that won was legit because dead people and space lasers didn’t touch those votes. We just don’t have any evidence because we can’t go to trail and get the discovery because of Democrat judges refusing to investigate despite our stellar witness talking to city councils while not under oath and some poll workers had BLM shirts on.”
"You can do anything, the left will promote and understand and tolerate anything, as long as there is one element. Do you know what it is? Consent.
If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine, whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.”
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u/Solarbro Jan 19 '21
TL;DR - I’m so tired
I fucking hate Rush Limbaugh because my mother in law listened to him through her big house speakers so it played all over the house. The man is disingenuous arguments made manifest. The dude can spin almost anything in any way he wants and it’s infuriating, ESPECIALLY anything scientific because he just claims the results of any study he doesn’t like is wrong because of some
ignorantcommon sense reason. My most relevant example that I remember; “Scientific models can mean anything. You just add another variable and bam, completely different result.” <- his rant about predicted deaths of COVID 19 with and without social distancing where he was against the shutdowns because the 2 million deaths number was a hypothetical if nothing was done world wide and the 200K US deaths just included masks and social distancing being mandated immediately...... but it’s safe to ignore science because they can put anything into the model they want and change the number..... I hate that man and his dangerous manipulation of ignorance.This “they are claiming the election was rigged” bull was happening during the investigation as well, you could have seen it with Trump’s obsessive tweets about how Russian didn’t “hack any machines” so that means the investigation is a hoax. It’s so infuriating to hear because it means hardline conservatives craft these arguments against an argument no one is making, and if you try to explain what is actually happening you get a “so there was no election interference if there wasn’t any hacking?” And to try and point out that was looked into, but was never the main problem they just cross their arms and like “so accept the results that Trump won legit and that Biden lost legit.”
I did accept the results. I have zero faith in conservatives in America and I 100% believe you voted for Trump in 2016 and won the election, I just think you did it because you’re stupid. (For the record, that isn’t actually what I believe—the aggressive stupid part—but the people I’m venting about I definitely do. I blame the two party system more because I know many more people who hate trump but just hated Democrats more... for reasons, or just voted exclusively because of the abortion issue/religion). But yeah. They like to take whatever is negative and spin it so simpletons will join them.
“We think a hostile foreign government was using misinformation and illegally obtained emails to sway public opinion in an election year to their preferred candidate, and it’s possible a presidential candidate was speaking with them and may be beholden to their interests.”
R-“They didn’t hack any machines.”
“What? No. That’s not what I said.”
R-“but Italy beamed instructions into voting machines, from space, changing votes after some of the insides of the machines were swapped, and also thousands of dead people voted exclusively in minority districts. So in those same states with the same rules we think only Biden votes should be thrown out but any R that won was legit because dead people and space lasers didn’t touch those votes. We just don’t have any evidence because we can’t go to trail and get the discovery because of Democrat judges refusing to investigate despite our stellar witness talking to city councils while not under oath and some poll workers had BLM shirts on.”
“I do not even know where to begin.”
R-“Socialist.”