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  1. 6 minutes ago, tbone_ said:


    I don’t think Rush tapped into the anger as was said above as much as he convinced people to be angry then fueled it.

    Loudest mouth wins is what he really set in motion.

    He made idiots feel smart. That’s the value.  Gave them opinions they couldn’t even fully comprehend. 

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  2. 6 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Amen.  I know people were bitter at Carter over various things, including gas prices, the Panama Canal, pardoning hundreds of thousands of draft dodgers who went to Canada and elsewhere, and especially the Iranian hostages (which there was fuckery there working against him) but it wasn't the kind of hate we see now.

    And when Clinton won, sure, there was some hate, but almost more disappointment and some anger at Ross Perot for "tainting" the election, but we were still coming off of a streak of 20 years of GOP rule vs 4 years of Democratic rule, so there was some weariness.  

    And in '92, there were still a shitload of Democrats in Texas who had not yet switched to the GOP, and the GOP did not have Texas fully locked in - Bush pulled in 2.5 million, Clinton 2.3 million, and Perot 1.3 million.  Hell, Rick Perry was Al Gore's campaign manager in Texas just four years before in 1988.

    But Limbaugh figured it out. He found a great cast of characters, helped by Gingrich and the Clinton/Arkansas shenanigans (White Water, the missing files suddenly appearing, etc.), but Limbaugh tapped into a hatred/anger that was under the surface and kept out of site by most decent people. He helped to surface that anger and hatred.  He helped shape the GOP from "your failures in life are because you couldn't pull yourself up by your bootstraps" to "your failures in life are because Democrats".  Obama was kind of the culmination of those efforts of 16 years of Clinton and Bush, but McCain and Romney weren't willing to fully embrace what Limbaugh had created (they embraced the Obama hate, but they didn't go down the birther rabbit hole).

    Trump comes along, and he fully embraces everything Limbaugh pushed, and everything that was spawned from, or influenced by, Limbaugh (including the birther bullshit, and the Alex Jones wing of the right-wing, etc.).

     

    What you said plus: 

    Limbaugh made politic entertaining. Idiots drawn to the fun flame got all mouthy despite failing high school algebra. Fucking social media gave the dumbest a chamber of idiocy. Hence GQP 

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  3. 1 hour ago, Jimbob said:

    They have the only stadium modeled after an open tackle box, brought to you by Carls Jr., and Brawndo flowing from the taps.   
    Life imitates art

    It is the thirst mutilator. So that’s nice 

    also I love you welcome to Costco 

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