Worst Person Of The Day: "Boss Limburger" Rush Limbaugh.

Today's Worst Person Of The Day is Rush Limbaugh, who has managed to once again say something utterly stupid on his own radio show.  This one was so stupid however, that I thought Alex Jones had accidentally been substituted for him on his radio show.

He was talking about as USA Today op-ed on America's greatness myths.  Society is built upon so many myths and falacies, it's actually shocking that it functions as well as it does.  Well, apparently, Rush doesn't like that idea so he came up with an idea of his own.

"This -- none of this could be happening of its own. It couldn't -- this is not happening because a majority of the American people want this. That’s what makes this so outrageous. We are being ruled and governed here by a really small minority who are using the power of fear and intimidation and economic destruction — that is key.  Once you take people’s money away from them, you own them. Once you take people’s ability to earn a living and you become the provider, you own them. That’s the first thing they did, was shut down this nation’s economy. Now they’re trying to get it shut down again under bogus COVID-19 numbers... ...But at the end of the day, everybody needed America. Every nation on Earth’s economy needs America. But our economy has been shut down. We got 44 million people out of work. We’ve got in Chicago alone 4,400 businesses which have been shut down and are said never to reopen again. And that’s one city. In Rome and throughout Italy, they’re losing $115 million a day via tourism. There isn’t any. They miss the United States.  The world depends on it. This is another thing that is by design in all of this. You take out the United States of America and you take out the United States economy, and you have set up your precious globalism and world government because you are creating worldwide poverty and thus worldwide need. And when you, the global government or whoever you are, become the provider to those in need, guess who you own?  But none of this could be happening if it weren’t for the fact that the United States is under assault and being taken down on the basis of a pack of lies. That our great history is nothing but a bunch of lies, that our history is nothing but a bunch of myths. How in the world can anyone with any kind of intellect at all look at the United States, see its role that it played in the establishment of human liberty and freedom, and want no part of it?  Well, obviously people to whom human liberty and freedom are a problem. To communists and socialists, human liberty and freedom, free choice, that’s a problem. The state becomes the repository of all freedom. The state determines who can do what, when, where, why. The state determines who has what. The state determines who gets what.
But how in the world can this -- I ask myself how in the world can otherwise intellectually qualified people not value the concept of individual liberty and freedom? And yet people who are leading this anti-American movement are of exactly that frame of mind, that somehow individual liberty and freedom pose the threat, pose the problem to the ongoing future."

That's just a small sample of a over 10 minute rant that spews out of the consciousness that is Rush Limbaugh.  Media Matters has the entire transcript if you want to read it, and the video of the rant if you want to hear and see it.

The main thing wrong with it is that it is the very embodiment of the myths that the writer was talking about.  The idea that somehow America is better than any other country in the world.  Where as in fact it's just one of over 200 countries and territories in the world today.  It's not even the largest by population.  Both India and China are way ahead on that count.  There's nothing inherently superior about the United States, just like there's nothing inherently superior about the UK, or any other country in the world.  The conflation of the old Russian "Communist" model with socialism is quite deliberate.  Socialism isn't about controling distribution of goods.  It's about making sure those goods reach market in a condition that isn't going to kill the consumer, even accidentally.  It's about making sure the water is clean, the food isn't going to kill you, the services are at a fair price.  It's all about all that and more.  It's got nothing to do with controlling everything, despite what the right wants you to believe.

Rush Limbaugh, The Worst Person Of The Day.

Worst Person Of The Day: 22nd July 2020

It's time for the miscreants, mountebanks and maniacs, the irrepressible and the irredeemable.  It's not totally serious, it's not totally silly, but it is my nominations for the Worst Person Of The Day.

The bronze medal goes to Police in Syndey, Australia, who asked a woman to remove her tampon during a strip search.  This comes from a report from Australia's Law Enforcement Conduct Commission who were investigating 5 controversial strip searches that had taken place.  They've ordered the police to apologise to the woman.  Obviously they're not pussyfooting around...

The silver goes to Housing Minister Robert Jenrick, who is apparently unrepentant about approving a housing scheme in East London, despite it being put forward by Richard Desmond, the former owner of the Star, Express and Channel 5, and also a noted donor to the Conservative Party.  He did say that he regretted sitting next to Mr Desmond, at a Tory dinner last November where they actually swapped telephone numbers.  I guess Desmond needed to Express himself to the minister...

But our winner is Kanye West, and I need to be serious here, because what is going on with Kanye right now is not funny, and it's not clever, it's just sad.   And I'm not just talking about his supposed presidential campaign, that has actually missed a bunch of deadlines to file for candidacy in several states.  No, that's just a symptom of the real problem.  BiPolar Disorder is not fun at all, not for the people around you, not even for you, and I can say truthfully, I have been there.  I have suffered BiPolar Disorder, and you do suffer it.  You can go from being on a maniac high, all the way down to a manic depressive state, in virtually no time at all, just a couple of minutes, and you can swing back again just as quickly, and you can keep doing that, multiple times an hour, never mind a day.  Yes, he posted some tweets on Monday which indicated he was looking to divorce his wife of 6 years, Kim Kardashian, and talked about how doctors wanted to 51/50 him, which means temporary involuntary psychiatric commitment of individuals who present a danger to themselves or others due to mental illness, and those tweets were later deleted, but it just shows just how volatile somebody with BiPolar Disorder can be.  So, this award comes with a proviso.  Kanye, get some psychiatric help for yourself.  I came out the other side, you can too.  And if you do, this award will be recinded.  But for now, Kanye West is the Worst Person Of The Day.

Worst Person Of The Day: 21st July 2020

It's time once again for the miscreants, mountebanks and maniacs.  The irrespressible and the irredeenable.  It's not totally serious, it's not totally silly, but it is my nominations for the Worst Person Of The Day.

The bronze medal goes to Newsquest for an article that I saw on the Falmouth Packet website, called How To Unlock Supermarket Trolleys without £1, but they obviously didn't think what they were writing, because just before they shared the tip that you can use 2 20p coins instead of a pound coin, they wrote... "As the use of cash declines while contactless payments rises, shoppers who forget to bring a coin for the trolley are faced with having to cram everything into a small basket."  Yeah, I think if somebody isn't using cash any more, they're unlikely to have 2 20p coins.  By the way, a tip of my own, for less than the pound coin, you can buy trolley tokens which if you don't keep cash on you anymore, you can use those to access your trolley.  And you don't necessarily have to pay cash for them either...

The silver goes to Conservative MP for Delyn, Rob Roberts, who is reportedly facing allegations of inappropriate behaviour.  BBC Wales has seen messages sent to an intern inviting her to "fool around" with him.  He's also admitted to asking out another House Of Commons employee, who as a result ended up moving to a new post.  The party has described his actions as completely inappropriate and confirmed the matter is under investigation.  He's only been an MP since December 2019, so it's nice to see he's learned the ropes so quickly... 😒

But for our winner we're going international, to New Zealand and National Party MP for Rangitata, Andrew Falloon, well, he was a National Party MP, he's resigned from the New Zealand parliament and from politics, effective immediately.  The reason for his resignation, he'd admitted that he'd sent a pornographic image to a 19 year old woman.  Ah, this is so refreshing to see.  Apparently, according to National Party leader Judith Collins, this was so egregious that they didn't even want to wait until September's upcoming General Election in the country, they wanted rid of him now, and so he's gone. This reminds me of the dim and distant past of British Politics, when politicians resigned over things they should resign about, When was that?  Oh yeah, before Brexit!

Andrew "Bye Felicia" Falloon, the Worst Person Of The Day.

Worst Person Of The Day: 20th July 2020

It's time to talk about the miscreants, mountebanks and maniacs.  The irrepressible and the irredeemable.  It's not totally serious, it's not totally silly, but it is my nominations for the Worst Person Of The Day.

The bronze medal goes to DUP MP for South Antrim, Paul Girvan, who made a bit of slip up in a debate today, by claiming that housewives did all the shopping.

He said the UK should aim to bring other countries up to its standard before telling the Commons: “We’ve set the bar fairly high.  But by setting the bar so high we have additional costs and it makes it more difficult for us to compete on a world stage and that is vitally important that we do address that, and we get that put in place with whatever measures we have to put in place and subsidy for our farming, and to ensure that we have a product which is still viable and still economically possible for the housewife to buy."

Now to his credit, he did apologise quickly, saying, “I’ve used the wrong term, I apologise, but those that are buying in their basket, their basket of food in the supermarket, they will definitely be able to get the best value for it.”  But, now we know who holds the purse strings in his household...

The silver medal goes to Israeli model Bar Refaeli, who has  recieved a large fine of 2.5 million shekels, that's around about £577,000, for tax evasion.  She'll also have to spend 9 months doing community service.  No doubt she'll turn that into positive PR on her Instagram posts.  Now, whilst I am all in support of taking down tax evaders, it's all too easy to go after people like models, actors and entertainers, because they tend to be either self-employed, or have small companies around them.  We should never forget that some of the biggest tax evaders right now are large corporations, who are deliberately moving money to tax havens to avoid paying tax.  The countries of the world, should be working together, to make these large multinational corporations pay their fair share of tax.  I only hope that she has found this whole situation more taxing than actually paying her taxes...

But our winner today is Conservative Brexiteer MP, Andrew Bridgen, who showed just how little he understands the Brexit situation, and the Russia report that's due to be published on Wednesday, by claiming that the release of the report was designed to sabotage Brexit and discredit the result of the referendum. 

He told the Express: “I hope that the ISC report will not be used as yet another attempt to try to discredit the referendum vote for Brexit or to smear Arron Banks again.  Too often we have seen that Remainers cannot accept defeat and have repeatedly used any means possible to attempt to undermine and discredit the result.  Yet whenever the British people have been asked to vote in a referendum or election in the last four years they have consistently and increasingly overwhelmingly backed the Leave side.”

Okay, so from the last point, no, they haven't backed Leave, they backed the Tories, unless you're suggesting that they're one and the same???  Second, it's not that Remain didn't accept the result, everybody accepted the result of the referendum, which was always only meant to be advisory, but was taken as gospel by those who won, it's more that as the evidence has mounted up to show that the result was tainted by external interference, Leave has refused to accept that, claiming some kind of conspiracy against them.  Third, Arron Banks hasn't been smeared, there were allegations made, and so far, there hasn't been enough evidence to bring him before court.

But the more important point is this.  The referendum result has already been discredited, even if Russian money wasn't involved, and it's not been disredited by Remainers.  It's been discredited by your own party, Andrew, becasue they have consistently failed to deliver what they promised in the referendum campaign.  They said that Brexit would be easy, that we were holding all the cards, that getting trade deals would be no problem.  None of those have turned out to be the case, and it's been the actions of Brexiteers like yourself that have caused all this.  Just accept that you won, and now you're having to live with the consequences of it.

And you know what the weird thing is about all this?  Once Brexit is finally done, Andrew will just go back to being just another irrelevant backbench MP, much as he was after he won his North West Leciestershire seat back in 2010, and he struggled to find releavance for a while, being critical of both David Cameron and later, Theresa May as Prime Minister.  Just you wait, Boris, he'll turn on you too!

Andrew "critical of Prime Ministers" Bridgen, the Worst Person of the Day!