• @Nobody
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    166 months ago

    That’s for the best. The unwritten rule has always been that children are off limits until they get involved. 18 is way too young to enter his father’s media circus.

    • Funderpants
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      6 months ago

      Obama’s kids were used in ads by the NRA in 2013, before that they were invoked by school lunch advocates in 2008. Thanksgiving 2014 they went after them again. I’m probably not remembering more than that.

      Didn’t the bush kids get bothered about trying to buy a beer?

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        166 months ago

        I remember Rush constantly talking about Chelsea Clinton.

      • @assassin_aragorn
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        156 months ago

        This is the one space where we should never stoop to their level. Kids are off limits unless they’re actual adults. Leave them out of it.

        I’m really glad that Barron isn’t going to involve himself here, because I don’t want him to get sucked into this unless he decides it’s what he wants to do.

    • @SirSamuel
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      126 months ago

      The unwritten rule

      There were quite a lot of unwritten rules prior to 2016

      • @CharlesDarwin
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        146 months ago

        The Republicans never abided by them. See Rush (de facto leader of the Republican Party for decades) and Chelsea Clinton, for instance.

        • @MumboJumbo
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          166 months ago

          Welp, Rush Is dead now. Dying was the coolest thing that man ever did. 🎉

          • @Passerby6497
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            66 months ago

            I’m just happy he was finally able to get off drugs.

            I wish he’d done it years earlier.

          • partial_accumen
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            26 months ago

            Welp, Rush Is dead now. Dying was the coolest thing that man ever did. 🎉

            Dying was his second coolest thing. His first coolest thing was becoming a drug addict after years of being critical to those with drug addition. He even said "drug abuse was a choice, not a disease. " He was alive long enough to live that hypocrisy and experience the ridicule for it.

            • @CharlesDarwin
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              46 months ago

              Well, he also denied the smoking - lung cancer connection.

              I cannot tell you how many people would argue with me - IRL and online - often molded directly after Rush’s style, and repeat, like good little parrots: “correlation is not causation! correlation is not causation!”. I think Ayn Rand had her cult members smoke as a matter of dogmatic adherence to her Objectivist ideals, too. I have to wonder how much of this made its way to all the little Libertarians and/or Republicans as a consequence.

              So dumb…

          • @CharlesDarwin
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            26 months ago

            Unfortunately, he and his many, many, many imitators all over hate radio, the web, and tv have done their best to manifest someone like Ronald McDonald. He may be gone but his movement is very much alive.