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Tue May 11, 2021, 08:03 AM May 2021

Missouri GQP is one step away from making every January 12 'Rush Limbaugh Day'

TeapubliKKKans in the Missouri House voted this Thursday to create “Rush Limbaugh Day.” The provision was tacked onto another bill which passed in the chamber. It will now move on to the Senate for approval, the Associated Press reports.

The day set aside for the honor is Jan. 12, the late right-wing radio host’s birthday.

“Rush demonstrated courage to speak boldly and encouraged his listeners and viewers to reach for their dreams and to push onward beyond the naysayers and discouragers that we all encounter in life,” Ashland Republican Rep. Sara Walsh said.

Unsurprisingly, Democrats aren’t big fans of the proposal. In a statement, Kansas City Democratic Rep. Ashley Bland Manlove slammed Limbaugh, who died at 70 from lung cancer in February, for his “constant attacks on Black people and other people of color.”

Also speaking out was Kansas City Democratic Rep. Ashley Aune.

“As a victim of sexual assault myself, their decision to enshrine a person who attempted to invalidate one of the most traumatic experiences of my life and the lives of other women and men is nothing short of infuriating,” she said.

https://deadstate.org/the-missouri-gop-is-one-step-away-from-making-every-january-12-rush-limbaugh-day/

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Missouri GQP is one step away from making every January 12 'Rush Limbaugh Day' (Original Post) 634-5789 May 2021 OP
With all his success, Rush never realized his dream of a harem of peasant house boys to brewens May 2021 #1
So, we're going to celebrate the fact that he's dead every January 12th? House of Roberts May 2021 #2
We "celebrate" many people dead in America. jimfields33 May 2021 #6
More appropriately, it's H. H. Holmes birthday. marble falls May 2021 #3
Limbaugh Sherman A1 May 2021 #4
Yeah. Thanks Missouri. Chipper Chat May 2021 #5
Free Oxycontin that day? East-A-Squared May 2021 #7
I understand children in the Dominican Republic observe Rush's death day as a holiday. Midnight Writer May 2021 #8
Pretty large swaths of Missouri where every day is Rush Limbaugh Day. tanyev May 2021 #9
Ugh my state jonstl08 May 2021 #10

brewens

(13,558 posts)
1. With all his success, Rush never realized his dream of a harem of peasant house boys to
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:13 AM
May 2021

frolic with. That was the goal. A lot more people just need to be made peasants to make it happen.

House of Roberts

(5,168 posts)
2. So, we're going to celebrate the fact that he's dead every January 12th?
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:13 AM
May 2021

It comes on a Wednesday in 2022. Probably won't see a lot of celebrating in the middle of the week.

Chipper Chat

(9,676 posts)
5. Yeah. Thanks Missouri.
Tue May 11, 2021, 08:31 AM
May 2021

Really great to equate that piece of shit with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, and Jesus Christ.

tanyev

(42,541 posts)
9. Pretty large swaths of Missouri where every day is Rush Limbaugh Day.
Tue May 11, 2021, 07:37 PM
May 2021

I used to live there and still have friends and family there.

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