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greetings fellows posting pals i noticed that with the recent deaths of former american defense secretary donald rumsfeld and haitian president jovenel moise that anytime someone politically important dies some noble cspammer has to make a dedicated thread to the topic and thats terrible people die all the time and if we had just one thread for death we could discuss any dead person here no matter how minor we could also bristle with excitement anytime the page gets a hundred new posts asking ourselves ooo i wondered who died today a good person which means im sad or a bad person which means im happy so any time someone dies you can post about it here and not worry about it seeming overly morbid because after all 
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the good news is someone finally died https://mobile.twitter.com/stevemurphy_dn/status/1420925885847322626 the bad news is that he was very boring
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Jul 31, 2021 04:55
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RIP Victorian Legislative Councilman Dick Long
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Jul 31, 2021 05:16
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i'd prefer new threads personally op
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Jul 31, 2021 06:52
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you guys hear biz markie just died?
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Jul 31, 2021 07:53
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For some reason, I thought I LOOOVE DEATH came from a political cartoon about schools brainwashing our kids about abortion. Am I completely remembering wrong? Maybe that was a goon edit
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Jul 31, 2021 07:55
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[place holder for Steven Crowder]
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Jul 31, 2021 08:45
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Jul 31, 2021 08:54
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https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1423312361998389248
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Aug 5, 2021 17:58
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I'm dead
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Aug 6, 2021 09:11
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wait how did i post this gently caress
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Aug 6, 2021 09:11
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ok this time im dead for rlz
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Aug 6, 2021 09:12
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https://twitter.com/ScottFeinberg/status/1423939319060828165
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Aug 9, 2021 14:41
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what the heck is that necklace made of?
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Aug 10, 2021 00:41
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hot cheetos
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Aug 10, 2021 00:45
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https://mobile.twitter.com/NYDNSports/status/1424367297305751559
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Pat Robertson, the conservative evangelist and media mogul who galvanized the modern Christian right, cultivated a massive national following and regularly drew criticism for his incendiary political statements, died Thursday, according to his official broadcasting network. He was 93. The Christian Broadcasting Network, the organization he founded, did not immediately announce Robertson's cause of death. "Pat Robertson dedicated his life to preaching the Gospel, helping those in need, and educating the next generation," the company said. He was one of the most prominent and influential Christian broadcasters and entrepreneurs in the United States — equal parts religious leader and culture warrior. In a way, Robertson was also a business visionary. He converted a small Virginia television station into a religious broadcasting powerhouse, marrying fiery ideology with 20th-century entertainment technology. He inspired other conservative Christians to take to the airwaves, too. He created the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), home to the talk show “The 700 Club,” and founded the Christian Coalition, a group that helped mobilize American evangelicals into a conservative political bloc and one of the cornerstones of the modern Republican Party. Robertson reached the pinnacle of his national celebrity in the 1980s, when social conservatism was ascendant. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, a contest ultimately won by George H.W. Bush. But he would remain a kingmaker in the GOP for decades to come, marshaling conservative Christians behind George W. Bush and Donald Trump. In his career, Robertson frequently attracted intense scrutiny for his political views and inflammatory public comments, earning a reputation as a right-wing provocateur. Early in his 1988 presidential bid, he was criticized for appearing to exaggerate his military service record. In interviews at the time, Marine veterans claimed that Robertson, the son of a politician, used political influence to avoid hard combat duty. Robertson denied the allegations. In the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Roberson and fellow televangelist Jerry Falwell were harshly condemned for appearing to put blame on abortion doctors, feminists, gay people and the American Civil Liberties Union. Robertson came under fire in 2010 for falsely claiming that the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti that year was caused by enslaved Black people who made a “pact with the Devil” in the 18th century as they fought for liberation from French colonizers. Marion Gordon Robertson was born March 22, 1930, in Lexington, Virginia. His father, Absalom Willis Robertson, served in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. The younger Robertson graduated from Washington and Lee University in 1950. He became a reservist in the U.S. Marine Corps and eventually went into active duty, serving for roughly two years during the Korean War. He earned a law degree from Yale University in 1955. In the years that followed, Robertson experienced a transformative religious awakening. He studied at New York Theological Seminary and graduated in 1959, then became an ordained Southern Baptist minister in 1961. The same year, Robertson purchased a bankrupt UHF television station in Portsmouth, Virginia, which he rechristened the Christian Broadcasting Network. The channel went live on the air Oct. 1, 1961, when he was 31. Five years later, CBN started production on “The 700 Club,” a show that became synonymous with the channel, a mainstay of American television and one of the signature Christian-themed shows on the air. “The 700 Club” was revolutionary for its time. In a departure from traditional Christian TV, the show embraced a talk-show format normally associated with secular entertainment. (The show was originally hosted by the popular televangelist Jim Bakker, who departed CBN in 1972.) Robertson grew CBN into a powerful entity and a go-to destination for politicians courting religious conservatives. Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump appeared as guests, according to the network. CBN's footprint expanded with CBN University, a private Christian institution that opened its doors to students in 1978. Twelve years later, the school’s name was changed to Regent University. Robertson went deeper into the political fray in the 1980s. He sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, running against establishment figures, the senior Bush and Bob Dole, the party’s presidential standard-bearer in 1996. The evangelist focused his campaign on social issues at the heart of the modern conservative movement. He vocally opposed abortion rights, supported school prayer and stood against progressive culture writ large. Robertson’s bid got off to an unexpectedly strong start with a second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. But his campaign soon flamed out, and he won just four statewide nominating contests before dropping out of the race. Bush ultimately clinched the nomination and won the presidency. Robertson had endorsed his candidacy and spoke at the party convention in August. Robertson continued to make his mark on Republican politics and the American political scene. The year after his failed presidential bid, he launched the Christian Coalition, a political advocacy group that advanced his aims and helped lead Republicans to a takeover of Congress in 1994. He left the Christian Coalition in 2002. Five years later, he stepped down as chief executive of CBN and handed the position over to his son Gordon Robertson. The elder Robertson continued to host “The 700 Club” until 2021. In recent years, Robertson remained one of the defining faces of the Christian right, beloved by conservative audiences. He prayed for Trump’s win in the 2016 election and said people who opposed his candidacy were “revolting against what God’s plan is for America.” He made occasional breaks from the conservative party line on certain issues. He called for an end to mandatory prison sentences for marijuana possession convictions, for example, and stated that “we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol.” In the wake of Joe Biden’s defeat of Trump in the 2020 presidential election, Robertson appeared to break with much of the conservative movement and reportedly chastised the ex-president for living in an “alternate reality.” He implored Trump to “move on.” Robertson’s wife, Dede Robertson, died last April at 94.
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Some Guy TT posted:Pat Robertson 
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Jun 10, 2023 18:52
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ted kaczynski just died
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Jun 10, 2023 19:04
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cock hero flux posted:ted kaczynski just died Supposedly
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Jun 10, 2023 22:11
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cant believe the reign of terror is over jim from the office is finally dead
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Jun 10, 2023 22:36
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SorePotato posted:Supposedly has anyone seen the body? is there a shred of evidence that he died naturally?
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Jun 10, 2023 22:38
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mawarannahr posted:has anyone seen the body? is there a shred of evidence that he died naturally? I know he's attempted suicide before but the screws always caught him before he could manage. IIRC he was out at some geriatric prison facility over in Virginia for people who're are in jail, old, and have serious health problems so either it was natural causes or Ted managed to off himself. Guy was 81 so it could've gone either way.
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Jun 11, 2023 00:04
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rip trumka
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Jun 11, 2023 00:23
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BREAKING NEWS: Hitler has been reported dead!
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Jun 11, 2023 05:14
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:rip trumka never met a Polish Italian American but it sounds extremely powerful a build
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Jun 11, 2023 06:35
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Weka posted:BREAKING NEWS: Hitler has been reported dead! I didn't even know he was sick
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Jun 11, 2023 06:56
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Jun 14, 2023 04:47
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didn’t read
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Jun 14, 2023 10:27
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fart simpson posted:didn’t read How will you know when America has died without reading the obituary column?
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Jun 14, 2023 10:42
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from the absence of treats, of course!
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Jun 14, 2023 12:40
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Weka posted:BREAKING NEWS: Hitler has been reported dead! not believing it until the soviets show me the skull
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Jun 14, 2023 23:05
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ellsburg died
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Jun 16, 2023 21:27
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paul_soccer12 posted:ellsburg died drat they finally got him
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Jun 16, 2023 21:54
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Legendary TV star Bob Barker, who hosted the famed game show "The Price Is Right" for 35 years, has died. He was 99. Barker died at his home on Saturday morning, his longtime publicist Roger Neal told ABC News. He was a few months shy of his 100th birthday. "He had a wonderful life," Neal said. Born in 1923, Barker was raised in South Dakota and Missouri, among other places, before eventually enlisting in the United States Navy during World War II. He never saw action, and after returning home to attend college at Drury University, he got his start in radio. His big break came when game show creator Ralph Edwards heard him on the air and reached out about hosting "Truth or Consequences" in the mid-1950s. Barker said Edwards had hosted the show himself on radio and this was one of the TV iterations. "I always admired Ralph Edwards' work. He did 'Truth or Consequences' beautifully. ... He also did 'This Is Your Life,'" Barker said in an "Emmy TV Legends" interview in 2008. "He's the most remarkable man." On the wacky show, contestants were tasked with answering questions and performing stunts for prizes. Barker's stint on "Truth or Consequences" lasted almost 20 years. Barker said that to get a call from the iconic Edwards "was just about the most exciting thing to happen to me." Then, in September 1972, Barker began a job that would end up being the work he is most known for -- "The Price Is Right." On this program, Barker would give the audience a chance to guess prices on everyday household items from couches to cars. Getting close to the actual price was the name of the game. "I was 48 and didn't have any thoughts about the rest of my life. It was just another show I thought I would have fun with and be well paid for," he told Entertainment Weekly in 2007. Barker said the secret to the longevity of the game show was simple. "Well it is a powerful premise. When we bring something out for the contestants to bid on, at home, they're thinking, 'Oh, that's too high,' or, 'Oh, that's too low, [or] 'That's a good bid,'" Barker told ABC News in 2007. "Whatever they're thinking, they're becoming involved. With "The Price Is Right," Barker got to put his experience talking with and interviewing everyday people to good use, which he said he got from his early days in radio. "It's a lot more fun to do than a person might realize. Each audience has its own personality. It's like mining for gold. I'm looking for little gems with whom I can create spontaneous entertainment. It's great satisfaction," Barker added to EW. "I was right at home on 'The Price Is Right' the way I was on 'Truth or Consequences.'" Barker won 19 Daytime Emmy Awards, including 14 for outstanding game show host, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Daytime Emmys in 1995. One of Barker's most memorable additions to "The Price Is Right" was his concern for animals and animal rights. This began in the early 1980s and lasted well into his retirement in 2007. Eventually, he ended every episode by saying, "Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered." In fact, the show got rid of fur coats as prizes because of Barker. "I myself was not aware of the cruelty to animals in the production of fur until about 1981. I said to [my producer] that I was very much involved in the anti-fur campaign and it's embarrassing to be on the stage giving away fur coats. And he said, 'I understand your position. They're gone,'" Barker told EW. Barker's longtime friend and co-executor of his estate, Nancy Burnet, said in a statement following his death that she is "so proud of the trailblazing work Barker and I did together to expose the cruelty to animals in the entertainment industry and including working to improve the plight of abused and exploited animals in the United States and internationally." Barker also started a foundation, which has contributed millions to various causes over the years. "I'm really not ready to say goodbye, no I'm not, but I'm 83 so I think it's a good time to say goodbye, because I want to leave them wanting more," Barker told ABC News' Deborah Roberts in June 2007. After leaving the show in the late 2000s, Barker returned in 2013 for a special tribute on his 90th birthday. New host Drew Carey invited the legend back to the show he made famous. "The audience gave me a standing ovation. I had a lump in my throat the first moment I was on the show practically. It was just a thrill, a pleasure. All the people on the show were so nice to me. Some of the people I had worked with, it was a joy to see them," he told TV Guide about being honored. Barker still had his classic sense of humor when asked after all these years if he'd be a good contestant on the show. "I'd be terrible. I used to be interviewed, and someone would want to play a game. And so they'd start to say prices for different products. I don't know any of them," he added. Barker had become such an institution by the 1990s and 2000s that he regularly appeared as himself in popular shows such as "The Nanny," "Futurama," "Family Guy," "Yes, Dear" and "How I Met Your Mother." He also memorably appeared as himself in the Adam Sandler film "Happy Gilmore," when he delivered some salty language and got into a fist fight with Sandler's character at a pro-am golf event. The one constant for Barker from his early days in radio to "The Price Is Right" was his wife Dorothy Jo Gideon, whom the host met in high school and married in 1945. Barker told ABC News in 2007 that it was Dorothy Jo who was the driving force behind his love for audience participation, his trademark. She was also a force behind his fight to help animals. "She was ahead of her time. She really was. She stopped wearing fur coats before anyone was stopping. She became a vegetarian before people were becoming vegetarian. And I gradually did the same thing with her," he said. His wife died in 1981 of lung cancer. He never remarried. "I never had any inclination to remarry. She was my wife," he said.
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price is wrong bitch. rip
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Aug 27, 2023 00:24
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he paid..... the greatest price of all
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Aug 27, 2023 05:20
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The price was the friends we made along the way.
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oh man how much were obituarians chomping at the bit for vonnegut
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platzapS posted:oh man how much were obituarians chomping at the bit for vonnegut so it goes
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