Henry Kissinger Died. Seriously

Jedoc · June 14

When I was a wee young Assistant Manager, my first posting was at Mega Library One, up in the rich white side of the metro. One of my first managerial acts was to repeatedly and calmly tell a patron that they couldn't put their stupid InfoWars newsletter out with the real newspapers. After no iteration of "But I really want to" changed my mind, they promised that Alex Jones was going to show up with a film crew when he heard about it and then they'd see if I was man enough to say the same thing in front of the whole world.

Sadly, Mr. Jones never showed up, with or without a camera crew, so I suppose we'll never know if I'd have been man enough or not.

Gim · July 9

Former Senator James Inhofe, a real bellwether for the Republican party for more decades than most of us have been alive, has finally died

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/senator-snowball

In 1976, he ran for Congress. He won a tough primary against Frank Keating, but again lost in the general, this time to James Jones, not a particularly notable Democrat, though Bill Clinton later named him ambassador to Mexico. But he did become mayor of Tulsa in 1978. That was a tight race but from then on he was pretty much guaranteed to win reelection. The Southern Strategy had advanced after all. Southern whites, slowly but surely, put aside their former antipathy to the Republican Party for their current and long-existing antipathy toward Black people, liberals, homosexuals, feminists, environmentalists, and anyone who seemed to threatened white Christian supremacy. Someone like Inhofe was ripe and ready to take advantage to this.

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Inhofe became oil and gas’ favorite man in the Senate. There was nothing he wouldn’t do for them. For example, in 2015, he introduced a bill that would have shifted all regulation over fracking from the federal government to the states, making it super easy for the gas industry to buy access and exceptions to regulations. He was well paid for all of this of course, receiving probably a million or more in donations from the oil and gas industry over the years. It also meant his biggest enemy was the environmental movement. In 2002, Inhofe compared the Environmental Protection Agency to the Gestapo for….marginally making the oil industry not pollute so much? Oh also, EPA head Carol Browner was….Tokyo Rose!

Of course, for Republicans this was great so when they took the Senate that fall, Inhofe became chair of the Committee on Environment and Public Works. This was catastrophic. See, for a long time, many decades really, the environmental community figured that if they could muster the science and the experts that politicians on both sides of the aisle would listen to them. Even during the Reagan years, this was often true. But that movement failed to see what was coming, the increased dominance of people such as Inhofe in the Republican Party, who simply didn’t care about the science. So Inhofe and allies just closed off the possibility of getting anything done in the Senate for greens. To this day, environmentalism remains a dead letter in Congress if Republicans control any part of the government, now including the Supreme Court. I am sure a death bed Inhofe gave a grim reaper smile when he found out that the Roberts Court had overturned the Chevron doctrine in June 2024.

If Inhofe is remembered for anything by the general public, it was his “herpty derpty it’s snowing here in DC so climate change is a lib conspiracy” speech, replete with the snowball brought onto the Senate floor. He thought climate change was just hilarious, thus the snowball. He stated, “With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetuated on the American people? It sure sounds like it.” OK Jim, sure.

For this, among other things, I once called Inhofe “arguably the dumbest person to sit in the Senate for a long, long time.” Amusingly, this quote is the lead for Inhofe entry at RationalWiki. Now, I stand by the statement mostly. Inhofe was a stupid, stupid man. However, that comment doesn’t really hold up to the test of time because the Republican Party really came to value stupidity as its central ideological point. People like Marsha Blackburn or Ron Johnson, not to mention Kirsten Sinema, genuinely very dumb human beings, managed to surpass Inhofe. And then there’s Tommy Tuberville. Good Lord, now that is a dumb person. It’s a sad nation where Inhofe isn’t the stupidest person in your governing bodies. In any case, Inhofe’s own granddaughter challenged Grandpa Dumbass directly the next time she saw her, saying that climate change was real and asking why he would not listen to science and help save the world. Inhofe’s response to his own granddaughter was to say that teaching science in schools was brainwashing.

There's more. Just an absolute evil dullard. Piss resting, ahoy.

Hacksaw · July 9

Good riddance.

Jedoc · July 9

Good luck finding a snowball down there, fucko

KalTorak · July 9

continuing the republican tradition of only doing the right thing after leaving office

RELtastic · July 9

This is the second Oklahoma based death that's been featured here lately (Toby Keith being the other, or course). Weird seeing the very different responses here and on local social media, where it's all "staunch, conservative defender of family values, etc etc etc"

I like it here more.

shoeboxjeddy · July 9

If your family's values are taking bribe money to ruin the world and environment, you have a shitty family.

Shadowfire · July 9

Jedoc wrote: »

Good luck finding a snowball down there, fucko

https://youtu.be/7Gr0pKI-eeg

Man in the Mists · July 18

Lou Dobbs just just joined Rush Limbaugh in Hell.

Jragghen · July 18

Damn, beat me to it.

KalTorak · July 18

more like... Do Lobbs...

Johnny Chopsocky · July 18

That certainly takes the sting off of losing Bob Newhart today.

Hacksaw · July 18

Good riddance.

DHS · July 18

rip in piss you odious clown dick

Pinfeldorf · July 18

I have no idea what Lou Dobbs did and who he was. Should I look it up, or is that knowledge I'm better off ignorant of?

Houk · July 18

just your standard conservative pundit/commentator shithead with all the typical anti-immigration, anti-environment, Obama birtherism, George Soros conspiracy, Trump loving bullshit that goes along with that

nothing special about him, but it's good that he's dead

Jars · July 18

he was on the daily show once and they had a mariachi band play him in

Burtletoy · July 18

Pinfeldorf wrote: »

I have no idea what Lou Dobbs did and who he was. Should I look it up, or is that knowledge I'm better off ignorant of?

Glenn beck but older. Worked for CNN as a dumb asshole. Left sometime after 9/11 to scream racism on fox news. Dead which is a good look for fox news hosts.

Jedoc · July 19

Houk the Namebringer wrote: »

just your standard conservative pundit/commentator shithead with all the typical anti-immigration, anti-environment, Obama birtherism, George Soros conspiracy, Trump loving bullshit that goes along with that

nothing special about him, but it's good that he's dead

He's notable in that he was an early and enduring pioneer in telling disingenuous inflammatory lies to drag the cable-watching audience further to the right. I don't know if he was a true believer or if he just recognized the anger=ratings cheat code earlier than most, and his rhetoric is laughably tame by modern standards. But it's safe to say that he crawled along the sidewalk eating dog turds so that the likes of Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro could sprint to the all-you-can-eat 24-hour dogshit buffet.

Centipede Damascus · July 19

the nicest thing I can say about Lou Dobbs is that sometimes I think about the time he tried to say "Huixtla" and smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8iAZlOcpcE

Tomanta · July 19

I remember making a drinking game for Lou Dobbs show on CNN in, like, 2003. It had one rule: every time he mentioned immigrants, take a drink.

Any given episode was deadly.

Captain Inertia · July 20

Hey I guess I can still learn about good news from page 2

Perrsun · July 20

Houk the Namebringer wrote: »

just your standard conservative pundit/commentator shithead with all the typical anti-immigration, anti-environment, Obama birtherism, George Soros conspiracy, Trump loving bullshit that goes along with that

nothing special about him, but it's good that he's dead

My only knowledge of him was hearing radio ads for his show/segments, and the announcer saying “watch Lou Dobbs tonight” and I thought they were saying “Lou Dobstonite”

BahamutZERO · November 29

Happy Henry Kissinger Is Still Dead Day to those who celebrate
On this day, 1 year ago, we learned a war criminal who got away with it for too long died

Solar · November 29

May he rot in the depths of the abyss

Kadith · November 29

never forget

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Hacksaw · November 29

I spent today reminding everyone at work that Henry Kissinger died one year ago today. It's put a lot of smiles on faces.

EmperorSeth · November 29

Damn, when I saw this thread updated, I hoped somebody else awful died.

DarkPrimus · November 29

EmperorSeth wrote: »

Damn, when I saw this thread updated, I hoped somebody else awful died.

Hey we've still got a quarter of a day or so to go!

Gyral · November 29

Well, Chuck Woolery did die recently and he was an anti-vax right-wing Trumpkin. Not on par with Kissinger, though.

Houk · November 29

Solar wrote: »

May he rot in the depths of the abyss

the apiss

BlackDragon480 · November 29

Gyral wrote: »

Well, Chuck Woolery did die recently and he was an anti-vax right-wing Trumpkin. Not on par with Kissinger, though.

Not to mention one of the last of the Richard Dawson style complete sex pest game show hosts.

TNTrooper · November 29

I got a free Korean corn dog thanks to this thread cause the lady running the stand asked what I was smiling about.

JayKaos · November 29

I don't remember if I saw it live or not, but one of my favorite streamer moments was a bunch of folks goofing off in lethal company and then one going "Hold on HOLD ON I've gotta confirm something my chat just said... Hold on... HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD" and then they all started pulling the foghorn and dancing

I just love the idea of that being how all those people learned that news

DarkPrimus · December 4

A health insurance CEO has been killed

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning in an apparent targeted attack as he was about to attend the company’s annual investor conference, a law enforcement official tells CNN. The gunman remains on the loose.

Brian Thompson was walking toward the New York Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, dressed in a suit and tie, to attend UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor conference being held in the ballroom.

A gunman, who investigators tell CNN was masked in the freezing temperatures, waited for about 10 minutes before Thompson’s arrival, before opening fire from 20 feet away shooting multiple times, striking Thompson.

I found out thanks to people on Bluesky sharing their stories about working at UnitedHealth:

https://bsky.app/profile/ceej.online/post/3lcifzqn3622r

I used to work a shitty job at UnitedHealth Group right out of college and one time the then-CEO visited our tiny claims processing center and they sent us all an email beforehand warning us not to “approach him in the hallway”

they were paying me 20k to work a second shift data entry job with two straight years of mandatory overtime at the same time the CEO was the highest-paid executive in the country. I guess if I'd gotten within ten feet of him my desperate schlub energy might have caused him to spontaneously combust

https://bsky.app/profile/planetoffinks.bsky.social/post/3lcigduwgec2t

One of my first summer jobs was a temp job at United Health answering calls from people who had their claims denied, basically just being paid to be a punching bag for justifiably angry and terrified people. No one in the call center could do anything for them, which was by design

I guess the lesson is live your life in such a way that people don't share stories like this immediately after you're murdered

Raijin Quickfoot · December 4

Maybe this is the beginning

expendable · December 4

DarkPrimus wrote: »

A health insurance CEO has been killed

The CEO of UnitedHealthcare was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning in an apparent targeted attack as he was about to attend the company’s annual investor conference, a law enforcement official tells CNN. The gunman remains on the loose.

Brian Thompson was walking toward the New York Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, dressed in a suit and tie, to attend UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor conference being held in the ballroom.

A gunman, who investigators tell CNN was masked in the freezing temperatures, waited for about 10 minutes before Thompson’s arrival, before opening fire from 20 feet away shooting multiple times, striking Thompson.

I found out thanks to people on Bluesky sharing their stories about working at UnitedHealth:

https://bsky.app/profile/ceej.online/post/3lcifzqn3622r

I used to work a shitty job at UnitedHealth Group right out of college and one time the then-CEO visited our tiny claims processing center and they sent us all an email beforehand warning us not to “approach him in the hallway”

they were paying me 20k to work a second shift data entry job with two straight years of mandatory overtime at the same time the CEO was the highest-paid executive in the country. I guess if I'd gotten within ten feet of him my desperate schlub energy might have caused him to spontaneously combust

https://bsky.app/profile/planetoffinks.bsky.social/post/3lcigduwgec2t

One of my first summer jobs was a temp job at United Health answering calls from people who had their claims denied, basically just being paid to be a punching bag for justifiably angry and terrified people. No one in the call center could do anything for them, which was by design

I guess the lesson is live your life in such a way that people don't share stories like this immediately after you're murdered

Removal of the bullet was deemed "not medically necessary" as being a health insurance CEO has a high risk of people wanting to shoot you. Therefore the claim is denied.

initiatefailure · December 4

having a bullet in you is a preexisting condition I think.

Rhesus Positive · December 4

Being somebody that many people would wish death upon is a preexisting condition

Raijin Quickfoot · December 4

Apparently healthcare has fucked around enough.

Time to find out I guess.

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