“Look, let me put it to you this way: the NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Take that bone out of your nose and call me back.”
-- Rush Limbaugh, to a Black woman caller on his program
“[Black Americans] are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Obama’s entire economic program is reparations.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“They’re out there protesting what they actually wish would happen to them sometimes.”
-- Rush Limbaugh, on women protesting sexual harassment
"What does it say about the college co-ed Susan Fluke [sic] who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex — what does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute."
-- Rush Limbaugh
"So Miss Fluke and the rest of you feminazis, here’s the deal. If we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Let the unskilled jobs that take absolutely no knowledge whatsoever to do — let stupid and unskilled Mexicans do that work.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“You just gotta be who you are, and I think it’s time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call ’em gangs.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Holocaust? Ninety million Indians? Only four million left? They all have casinos — what’s to complain about?”
-- Rush Limbaugh, on the genocide of Native Americans
“To some people, bankers — code word for Jewish — and guess who Obama’s assaulting? He’s assaulting bankers. He’s assaulting money people. And a lot of those people on Wall Street are Jewish. So I wonder if there’s starting to be some buyer’s remorse there.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it’s an invitation.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
"It's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery when they've done more to end it than any other race. If any race of people should not have guilt about slavery, it's Caucasians."
-- Rush Limbaugh
“So you go into Darfur and you go into South Africa, you get rid of the white government there. You put sanctions on them. You stand behind Nelson Mandela — who was bankrolled by communists for a time, had the support of certain communist leaders."
-- Rush Limbaugh
“Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?”
-- Rush Limbaugh
“The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well... in black coaches and black quarterbacks doing well. I think there’s a little hope invested in McNabb and he got a lot of credit for the performance of his team that he really didn’t deserve.”
-- Rush Limbaugh
"A lot of young people are spending a lot of time on the World Wide Web. I came across a post last night at, of all places, [Gawker] ... is a ... Basically it's a militant homosexual site, entertainment. Not militant. It's a gay site."
-- Rush Limbaugh
"In this commercial he is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He is moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act. This is the only time I’ve ever seen Michael J. Fox portray any of the symptoms of the disease he has."
-- Rush Limbaugh, on Fox having Parkinson's
"This is really shameless, folks. This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting."
-- Rush Limbaugh, on Fox having Parkinson's
More on Rush Limbaugh's violent homophobia, including celebrating on-air the deaths of AIDS victims.
"Why should I care about U.S. Space Command being transferred to Alabama? I hate the military-industrial complex."
There are a number of reasons you should care, but you really only need one.
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An ICBM launched from Russia can reach the U.S. in 27 minutes. An ICBM launched from North Korea takes about 30 minutes; some estimates have it as low as 24 min. That doesn't mean we all get a text alert on our phones saying an ICBM is gonna hit in a half hour.
In reality, most of us wouldn't get much of a heads up at all. Because the ICBM needs to be properly identified and confirmed and reconfirmed. Then it has to be imperfectly tracked. Then agencies have to be notified. Then the press. Then the rest of us.
This is being somewhat misreported, and I think it's important to correctly frame it, so that folks don't sound clownish when they're advocating for the retirement benefits of trans service members.
The Air Force is denying *early retirement* to trans service members who have served 15-18 years and are being forced out.
As most folks know, Active Duty members of the military are eligible for retirement at 20 years. This is a separate thing from medical retirement, by the way.
Yet again, we're in one of those moments when a college offers an interesting elective course, and clowns online get all huffy about it and whine that college education has become trivial and ask what job a student will get with this course.
The typical undergraduate education, a bachelor's degree, is 120 credit hours over four years. Just about every degree program at every college or university in the country leaves at least 9-12 of those credits open as free slots for other subjects a student wants to explore.
That usually works out to at least 3-4 courses over the entire four years. Some degree programs have more. Some students will opt to use those elective slots toward a double major. Some will use them toward a joint degree program (bachelors and masters) over four or five years.
The criticism over Zelenskyy not wearing a suit is not only foolish but more importantly: completely fails to understand why he doesn't. Of course the man own suits. That's not the point.
His clothes are intentional symbolism. A country and its leader under immediate and existential threats from a tyrannical force have no time for suits and neckties.
Notice, too, that he's not wearing a formal uniform.
He has no visible rank or medals or nametapes. He has no commander’s cap or mirror-shined shoes. He has no epaulets or brass buttons or starched creases. He isn’t even wearing patches.
If land-based nuclear weapons are launched at the United States, even in a best case scenario (ha), the odds are pretty good you're not gonna know about it until the moment the bomb detonates in your area.
It's estimated that it would take 26 minutes, 40 seconds for an ICBM to travel from Russia to mainland U.S.
The estimate from North Korea to the U.S. is 33 minutes.
So, you're thinking: well, hey, that means I'll at least have a head start, right?