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Paul F. Tompkins

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633 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

It's just the way things are.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

I mean, it's like, it's just not even that funny. No! You know what I mean?

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

I mean, it's like, it's just not even that funny. No! You know what I mean?

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

I mean, it's like, it's just not even that funny. No! You know what I mean?

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

That's one of the things that sucks about Rush Limbaugh is that he... For somebody who did a lot of bits and, you know, was supposedly doing satire, he just wasn't that funny.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

That's one of the things that sucks about Rush Limbaugh is that he... For somebody who did a lot of bits and, you know, was supposedly doing satire, he just wasn't that funny.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

That's one of the things that sucks about Rush Limbaugh is that he... For somebody who did a lot of bits and, you know, was supposedly doing satire, he just wasn't that funny.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

Yes. Because you put the tiniest effort into constructing these bits.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

Yes. Because you put the tiniest effort into constructing these bits.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

Yes. Because you put the tiniest effort into constructing these bits.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

And the idea that it's so... That he phrased it as this matter of personal choice rather than like just common sense practical thinking. You know, like, do you really want to put your trash in two separate trash cans? Yeah. And it's like, well, it's not so much that it's a hassle. It's that we're going to make Earth unlivable for ourselves. Not that we're like, you know, fuck you, the dodo.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

And the idea that it's so... That he phrased it as this matter of personal choice rather than like just common sense practical thinking. You know, like, do you really want to put your trash in two separate trash cans? Yeah. And it's like, well, it's not so much that it's a hassle. It's that we're going to make Earth unlivable for ourselves. Not that we're like, you know, fuck you, the dodo.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

And the idea that it's so... That he phrased it as this matter of personal choice rather than like just common sense practical thinking. You know, like, do you really want to put your trash in two separate trash cans? Yeah. And it's like, well, it's not so much that it's a hassle. It's that we're going to make Earth unlivable for ourselves. Not that we're like, you know, fuck you, the dodo.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

You should have had claws or something. It's that we're fucking ourselves. Why has that been... Why is that so hard to understand and so hard to comply with and so hard to keep as part of the narrative? Because the logical extension is, what do you care? You'll be dead. By the time this shit affects people in a meaningful way, to you a meaningful way, you'll be dead. So what do you care?

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

You should have had claws or something. It's that we're fucking ourselves. Why has that been... Why is that so hard to understand and so hard to comply with and so hard to keep as part of the narrative? Because the logical extension is, what do you care? You'll be dead. By the time this shit affects people in a meaningful way, to you a meaningful way, you'll be dead. So what do you care?

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

You should have had claws or something. It's that we're fucking ourselves. Why has that been... Why is that so hard to understand and so hard to comply with and so hard to keep as part of the narrative? Because the logical extension is, what do you care? You'll be dead. By the time this shit affects people in a meaningful way, to you a meaningful way, you'll be dead. So what do you care?

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

And these are people that are allegedly all about the family. And it's like, well, I mean, do you plan on having grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren? Like, do you care about what – I don't know. I'm not being funny now, and I'm just being whiny.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

And these are people that are allegedly all about the family. And it's like, well, I mean, do you plan on having grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren? Like, do you care about what – I don't know. I'm not being funny now, and I'm just being whiny.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

And these are people that are allegedly all about the family. And it's like, well, I mean, do you plan on having grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren? Like, do you care about what – I don't know. I'm not being funny now, and I'm just being whiny.

Behind the Bastards
CZM Rewind: Part Two: The Rush Limbaugh Episodes with Paul F. Tompkins

My politics are, I don't want somebody telling me what to do. I believe in a vague idea of a John Wayne movie, and things were better in this bygone era before these people started to suggest that maybe we could improve things, and that's where it ends.