Merv's Politically Incorrect Audio Blog

That's the interesting thing right there…Rush didn't hate anybody. But the media left no stone unturned to report that he did and paint him in that light. Elton John, who is a well-known gay man, played at his wedding…and had nice things to say about him. Everyone that met him said he was just a very nice person. And reportedly, a lot of people that disagreed with his views listened to his show regularly.

It's fine to disagree with someone's views, but it's a whole other thing to attempt to make them out a monster because you disagree with those views.

I hadn't listened to Rush for 20 years, but was sad to hear of his passing just the same. I learned to consider some things differently from that show, and certainly didn't always agree, but for that I thank him. It's made me a better person.

 

Oh yeah I know, people gave Elton John shit for singing at Rush's last wedding. Honestly, I don't really see the big deal. Elton John is well known to not give a f**k about cancel culture for decades (he keep playing in Israel when people tell him don't do it, does events in AZ when people were boycotting AZ at the time due to political reasons).

My generation, the millennials, regardless if you are right/left are closed minded as f**k.

Perfect example is my group of friends who I don't talk really talk to them anymore:

The left-wing friends make a big deal if you lean anything GOP side of politics and cut you off from their lives. They prefer to be in their safe spaces and only hang out with people who think like them, talk like them, and act like them.

The right-wing friends make a big deal if you lean anything the Dem side of politics and cut you off from their lives. They prefer to be in their safe spaces and only hang out with people who think like them, talk like them, and act like them.

Notice that I said the same thing from my left/right wing friends? That's the problem with my generation, too much they wanna be in their safe space and always angry at the other side. Some of my right-wing friends still think Obama should be hanged since he is black, and some of my left-wing friends think that Biden is a moderate Republican who isn't a Democrat (while they don't realize that the American Heartland are just GOP voters mostly at this time, hence advantage in the Senate).

Shit, even my GF's friends are a bunch of stereotypical White/College Educated/Leftest who think they know good policies for minorities. They even have a rule that they don't date anyone who is a Republican/Conservative, which is pretty rich if you ask me. I think I got them pissed off when I told them that not all Indians from India are f'ing liberal like some of the Indian American Actors on some of these shows. I would know, I have Indo blood in me and I met tons of First/Second Gen Indian Americans who are hardcore GOP voters.

I also pissed off my right-wing friends when I told them that they are in love with big government when they stated it is ok to accept welfare at times and want a bigger federal government to solve their "problems."

Of course....it doesn't help that I'm in FL. People in FL tend to segregate themselves politically and socially where you always look at the other side with hate. If you want to know a small reason with the housing growth in FL, people are moving to be near "their kind."

Honestly there's nothing kind of wrong with that, but this state is the state where there's too much "safe spaces" and not enough critical thinking. It is kind of depressing....but eh.

Personally he didn't make me a better person, but I do have a fun story.

When I was 18 I worked in a magazine call center. This call center did handle magazine subscription of the Rush Limbaugh newsletter. This was back in 2008 for me.

Before I had to handle these calls, I was told as a warning that the people who are calling in think we are actually in the studio with Rush and will rant nonstop. When I was taking these calls, those comments were true. A few times some of the calls were asking me to go into the studio to say hi to Rush. Others were talking about Rush's deceased cat, and I remember someone for five minutes was telling me that Rush is Jesus Christ and Jews must vote GOP or die. It felt to me that these customers were borderline not using any critical thinking skills when someone told me to write this down and give this to Rush.

I was only 18, working in a call center that handle magazine subscriptions for tons of different publishing companies, and was trying to get into college at the time. It was an...interesting experience. It made me start thinking that people are too easy to be "brain washed" on both sides. I was right when I went into college and see the professors playing Michael Moore videos and a professor talking about why black people need to stop voting for Democrats since black people are lazy. I was like "my tax money for public university went down the shitter."

 

Yes what Robinhood did is essentially out of Superman 3. They delayed your trades and sold the unformed

They pulled some Superman 3 shit and will definitely see criminal charges eventually. It will end terribly for them like Shrekeli

 

Many, many Indians are utterly f'ing unliberal.

 

Since we’re talking India now what is the average person’s reaction to Greta Thunberg accidentally leaking that toolkit? Twitter tempest in a teacup or genuine scandal?

 

I know, being half Indo I seen it all.

For you dorks:

Some of you know my name, it is very Hebrew sounding. Considering my name is Hebrew but my face looks like I'm from India, it's true that I'm half Indo-Guyanese/Israeli.

However, I was born in this wonderful place call America.

• I f'ing love bacon
• I love action films where shit blows up often by strong men.
• I love beer
• I speak more like a Southern Bubba every day than being from NYC.
• I don't really care too much about my background period.
• Trucks and Guns are cool, but I'll do my Pipes and Cigars.
• Give me a 3,000 cal burger.
• I hate paying taxes.
• I don't believe in stuff like an higher authority, but who am I to tell you that your beliefs are a joke? Cause your beliefs aren't a joke.
• I could be a borderline nutjob.
• Don't force me to believe in shit.

Even with the issues of the USA, so happy that I was born here. Don't wanna deal with the Jewish Religious Laws in Israel. Per my mother side of the family, Guyana is a shithole that is left to be avoided. My mother relatives who used to live in Guyana back in the day told me that it was so much better when the white people was running it (United Kingdom).

 

pretty sure i could see some folks (back home especially) call me.. brown on the outside, white on the inside

Born in India, but swear my friends from back in the day always believed i wouldn't be coming back once i left to the US.
Its been 15 years and i can finally own guns thanks to my green card, which only took..well 15 years ... would've been longer if we had waited for it to come through from work (that's been pending since 2015).

Couple more years and i can apply for my citizenship, which I will and have my wife apply as well to get our OCI (Overseas citizenship of India) card so we can still have the option of settling back there if we choose to.

 

yeah.. f**k Greta. Attention seekers. They have no clue of the realities of the situation. Its potentially a genuine scandal.we will see what the investigation reveals.. since there is talk of pro-secessionist forces pushing these leftist radicals to gain international attention to their cause.
Even folks like Trevor Noah, who i love, only choose to show the issue from one side. But then again, everyone is pandering to their own audiences.

 

Very true. Where I live we have a very dynamic, growing Indian population. (All Aerospace engineers that work at the same company as I). The single young ones may be moderately Liberal but once they get married and have kids they go really Conservative.

 

Indian parents and their culture are a bitch. Major scoring from their families for even marrying someone outside of their culture.

So fun fact: My mom side is the family is the Indo-Guyanese side. There aren't big fans of me because I'm not fully one of them. My mother's parents current a fan of me because I'm not hundred percent Indo-Guyanese. In matter of fact, Indians as a group aren't the big fan of interfaith marriages.

The ones that do are pretty Americaized and don't give a f**k. In my lifetime I saw plenty of Indian dudes perfer white American girls. They kind of get depress when they are forced to marry an Indian due to family pressures.

I'm so f'ing glad that I cut that side off of my life. Depressing as hell when you keep being told growing up why you don't keep your heritage from that side of the family and stop being too American. When I go get groceries at the local Indian supermarket and bring with me my GF (she is super mayo), the amount of evil looks is wat.

Ummmmm, I was born in American you idiots. You don't consider me an Indo-Guyanese, so kiss my ass. Stop telling me to eat roti, I'll eat a f'ing bagel.

Disclaimer: This post might sound depressing, but I'm actually saying this with humor. Do not feel bad for me at all. Once again, glad to me an American.

 

I mean..i know where you're coming from as I know friends with such family that don't accept inter-caste marriage let alone inter-racial.

as for being eyeballed, the other way around by white folks is more frequent in my experience. Once overheard a guy mutter to his friend at the gas pump, " they steal our jobs and now our women too"

 

I didn't understood the caste crap until I was saying nine when I found out that some Indians from India will not allow marriage to Indo-Guyanese.

For those who weren't aware: Indians who migrated to Guyana we're mostly lower caste. Read it up.

When I connected the dots, I thought it is the stupidest thing that I ever heard. A relative told me once that I should understand and be aware of my "level." I said well since you guys don't consider me 100% Guyanese I do not give a f**k, and thus that's my ticket out of the fuckness of that culture.

Haven't had contact with those guys for almost 20 years. If they want to act like this is Guyana, they should go back there. Very harsh words, but my goodness you need to assimilate in America.

 

Environmentalism is a luxury only rich (on a global scale) westerners can afford. Sad to me how ethnocentric we are.

 

More qualified people than I have answered, but I would say...

1. I know people who toe the foreigners have no right to comments or opinions about India line.

2. Most Indians have probably never heard of Greta, and wouldn't give a toss what she says anyway.

Well, I disagree about Greta, but I do agree that many foreign commentators , including those in the media with Indian-origin names don't seem to know much about the place. BBC has improved slightly: it used to dreadful.

It is very complex and I do not understand. As I was saying on an Indian forum a few weeks ago, I have been hearing two things about Indian farming since I came here: 1: dreadful poverty and huge suicide rate; 2: wealthy people with very successfully businesses. Yes, came the reply: both true.
It is partly a regional thing: different crops, climates, etc. There are no such protests at my end of India (well, not much) because the situation is different.

From what I can gather, the Punjab guys in the Delhi protests are the better-off kind of farmer. More businessman than peasant. They currently have a situation where they basically sell their crops to the government at a guaranteed minimum rate. It seems that there is a lot of agreement that reform is needed, but that the current new laws essentially, under the banner of commercial freedom, throw these guys on the mercy of Big Commerce: and we all know who always wins that fight.

But I was a city boy (although born rural) in London, and I'm a city boy here. Indian village/farm life is whole other world, and going there as a tourist gets one only as deep as the holiday snaps one brings home.

I'd say that whether she knows what she is talking about or not is more important than the colour of her skin. I've not read the original statement, or any backup material she may have published. As per above, it is possible that she has done her research better than some brown-skinned guy at the BBC who was asked to deliver a thousand words.

@shredical admits to being a bit of a coconut (No he doesn't: that was a misunderstanding). I've gone the other way: To look at or listen too, I'm frightfully English. But it's been fifteen years; I travel back to England very little, and I do not have "expat" friends (in fact I consider myself as an immigrant, not an expat). On the inside: I am a little tiny bit brown.

 

Frightfully English. That is almost onomatopoeic in its descriptiveness. Could one be more English than frightfully so?

 

Whoa whoa I don’t admit to being a coconut I just said others, narrow minded folks l, might perceive me as such based on my views
I just like my being free from societal pressures and individual freedom a lot more than certain traditions ‘allow’

although my views are getting more mainstream in cosmopolitan places like Bangalore where am from.

and frightfully British...you mean bloody British

you do touch upon an important point, it’s only farmers from this one part of the country that’s making all this noise when by and large the rest of the farmers in other areas will actually benefit from the new law and support it.

 

Whoops, foot taken out of mouth so that I can apologise: sorry about that.

Quite a few years ago, a friend of mine, visiting from America told me he would never move back to India, as it was oppressive and repressive. Octogenarian, Brahmin (atheist), retired NASA physicist. I was surprised to hear him use such words. Then.

lol. What to do? Working on it, but this wretched virus has been keeping me indoors, away from the sun and the friends, getting pinker.

I think that it is not so much that it will benefit them as they do business in different ways and it is not that relevant.