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Initech

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24. Exactly. People act like MAGA happened overnight.

Reply to BaronChocula (Reply #22)

Fri Dec 19, 2025, 03:51 PM

Dec 19

But nope. It's been years, decades in the making. People like Rush Limbaugh and Jimmy Swaggart were the OGs of the kind of madness that the modern conservative party has been flinging for decades now. Many of the current people have been brainwashed by the previous generation.

Limbaugh / Swaggart brainwashed the Fox News generation. The Fox News generation brainwashed the Infowars generation. And who knows what the next generation after that will bring? I would like to think it stops here, but there are *ALWAYS* people like Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, Steve Bannon, and Rupert Murdoch around who profit off the lowest common denominator. ALWAYS.

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Conservatives Have Been Having a 93-year long Hissy-Fit [View all] ThoughtCriminal Dec 19 OP

Trump is the end result of 45 years of Limbaugh's brainwashing temper tantrum. Initech Dec 19 #1

Yes ... but you're giving Rush Limbaugh too much credit FakeNoose Dec 19 #17

Bingo! BaronChocula Dec 19 #22

Exactly. People act like MAGA happened overnight. Initech Dec 19 #24

At this point it's a self-sustaining fire BaronChocula Dec 19 #25

Started Rebl2 Dec 20 #35

The protest sign for the last rally that I made said: Initech Dec 20 #36

We had locally in NYC Bob Grant who was even more vicious that Rushbo. electric_blue68 Dec 19 #26

Old greedy white men who fear losing control of their thievery. NotHardly Dec 19 #2

Racists and bigots are afraid of being treated the same way they treated the people they hate. OMGWTF Dec 19 #23

Amplified by non-stop, pervasive right-wing radio and TV propaganda Mysterian Dec 19 #3

they bought the media so they can control the narrative yobrault1 Dec 19 #6

You must search for the truth but right-wing propaganda is everywhere Mysterian Dec 19 #13

This is absolutely spot on A HERETIC I AM Dec 19 #4

Good commentary AHIA popsdenver Dec 19 #7

Obama put them over the edge. yobrault1 Dec 19 #5

ding . this AllaN01Bear Dec 19 #9

My theory is that if Obama had not won a second term the conservatives could have chalked it up to a fluke. But... electric_blue68 Dec 19 #28

and theouster of nixon AllaN01Bear Dec 19 #8

Yup. Kid Berwyn Dec 19 #10

Thanks for the link to this past discussion. love_katz Dec 20 #32

Well put orangecrush Dec 19 #11

Yup blue-wave Dec 19 #12

I would Recommend this a thousand times if I could. What we are experiencing today absolutely has it's roots in the KPN Dec 19 #14

It's their default setting Warpy Dec 19 #15

This is one great thread by the way. KPN Dec 19 #16

What happened that far back? LiberalArkie Dec 19 #18

truth... they can all go fuck all the way off. They are the source of 99% our political problems LymphocyteLover Dec 19 #19

Yep. OldBaldy1701E Dec 19 #20

i'm reading Democracy Awakening barbtries Dec 19 #21

Re: AHIA comment...Here's a quote from Paul Weyrich Co-Found of The Heritage Foundation... electric_blue68 Dec 19 #27

As American as Apple Pie Cirsium Dec 19 #29

They long for the good old days when WASPs were in charge. Martin68 Dec 19 #30

The problem with the Republican party is that it's full of Republicans. love_katz Dec 20 #31

My wife's late grandmother used to go on rants to me about how horrible FDR was for... Ol Janx Spirit Dec 20 #33

More like a 160 year hissy fit lonely bird Dec 20 #34