underpants (105,144 posts)
Rush Limbaugh cited a DU thread today
BTW- I can't find this thread. I knew he was lying about it...anyway here you go - this is the type of thing people believe from their car radio everyday:
And somebody went to Democrat Underground, somebody got the idea to go there and just troll and look around, and one of the first posts in Democrat Underground last night was this: "What happened that my Social Security withholding's in my paycheck just went up? My paycheck just went down by an amount that I don't feel comfortable with. I guarantee this decrease is gonna hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?"
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And as part of the thread, there are people trying to explain to them what happened, and some of them understand it, and some of them don't, but they're all livid.
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They're fit to be tied. And then they resort, it's probably Bush's fault, they think. They think that Bush has come back from four years of a presidency that's expired to bite them. And they're livid over it. It's a classic illustration. You talk about low-information voters. You talk about people have no clue. You talk about people that support things they have no idea what they're doing in terms of harming themselves by virtue of what they support. The Democrat Underground: what happened that my Social Security withholding and my paycheck just went up? This guy had no idea. And it's a long thread. I don't know how long it is now.
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Now, I mentioned moments ago when I was telling you the outrage on Democrat Underground from people whose paychecks were smaller because their Social Security tax went back to normal. They didn't know it was coming and they were livid and they're blaming Bush. So I got some e-mail asking: "What do you mean, blaming Bush?" It's a good question. I should have 'splained it. Here is the thinking.
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On Democrat Underground, they blamed Bush for causing the economic crash by cutting taxes. In other words, the people at Democrat Underground believe the recession happened because of tax cuts. Now, what...?
The Republican brand (if you will), if it's known for anything, it's tax cuts, which means a growing economy. Tax cuts mean you keep more of what you earn. It means that there are more jobs created. It means you broaden the base, you increase jobs, and therefore you increase the number of taxpayers. The more people there are paying taxes, the more revenue there is to Washington. But you don't have to raise individual taxes to increase revenue to Washington.
You can get more revenue by simply creating jobs, and you do that by lowering taxes. And that's what the Republican Party has been known for. And Obama wanted to strip them of that. Furthermore, he wanted that identification, and he's got it! Obama's the big tax-cutter now. That's what people think. But the Republican tax cuts caused the problems. This has been Obama's point for four years.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022133268Must suck to know that millions of people were laughing at DU today.
formercia (17,578 posts)
1. Let me be the first.
**** you, Rush.
I'm sure he will cry himself to sleep tonight over that.
underpants (105,144 posts)
13. Thanks
Hey any publicity is good publicity.
If any of his audience falls into DU then they will find a word of information that will never listen to him the same way again.
DU - wise and otherwise and that's how we likes it!!
Yeah a bunch of "ditto heads" are going to read DU and be so dazzled by your bullshit that they won't ever trust Rush again.
yardwork (36,290 posts)
15. It's hard to tell which thread Rush meant and which threads were a result of Rush's comments.
Come on over we have the thread documented for you.
Shankapotomus (1,704 posts)
9. That member hasn't been tombstoned yet.
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88 posts and his thread makes the Rush Limbaugh show? I remember seeing that thread. Rush just handed us a gift. This wreaks of setup. He is employing operatives to drum up false accusations against democrats. We should make this viral.
I would keep an eye on Neon2012 too.
Yeah it's a real gift to you to be laughed at by millions of people.
OccupyManny (17 posts)
36. Lol!!!
I listen to the fat loser all the time when I'm driving my truck. A special place in hell awaits him. I hope they catch him in the Dominican soon where he's known to have a penchant for Viagra fueled sex with young boys.
Mole trying to damn hard.
NYC_SKP (45,516 posts)
3. There were a couple threads whining about pay stubs.
Maybe someone will link one or two of them.
I would love to know for certain which one Rush referred to, and to know if it was planted here for his use, but the hell that would come down on any posting member who didn't mean to stir shit would be pretty unbearable.
Kind of funny us knuckle dragging freepers know exactly which thread it was.
Bjorn Against (7,390 posts)
7. First they ignore you, then they laugh at at you, then they fight you, and then you win.
They are now fighting us, what comes next?
We are still laughing at you, and we always will be.
underpants (105,144 posts)
29. That was the funny part - GEE he (they) had never even THOUGHT of the cause and effect
he has them in such a bubble they actually believe that everything was just fine until 1/20/2009 (ominous music). No debt. No financial crisis. No bailouts. Nothing - it was all flowers and candy. This has been the main goal of the RW radio and Fox News since the Bush disaster - a smokescreen to blur the timelines and then repeat repeat repeat.
Those sad souls really believe that nonsense...and BELIEF is key to them just like Rush trying to explain the conservative tax cut theories that have never worked.
We are in a bubble? How can that be? What you posted shows that you are in a bubble. Maybe if you actually ever listened to Rush and conservatives you would know we never said anything like that and don't believe that. We know that in Bush's second term the GOP screwed up pretty bad, then Nancy and Harry took over and showed us how to screw it up even worse.
pa28 (3,528 posts)
37. The usual Limbaugh brand of sophistry most Republicans take as truth.
Life is much easier when you lean back and enjoy your opinions being validated rather than disseminating facts and thinking critically.
Sounds just like DU. Hell you fools even run to DU to beg for talking points to debate some freeper.
JaneyVee (1,898 posts)
42. I hope Lush Rimbaugh does a DU search of his name.
Like he is going to care that a bunch of losers on the internets call him horrible names. The man has been called every name in the book for 25 years and that hasn't stopped him. So, I seriously doubt that insults from Democrat underground will bother him at all.
Politicub (5,273 posts)
67. Maybe it will lead to some converts.
Love that we're getting under the douchebag's skin.
Grotesque ****.
It's the other way around he is under your skin. And there is no way in hell you will get converts when people read your site.
