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Rob Reiner - here's an intriguing news item
December 20, 2025, 12:21 AM
911BossRob Reiner - here's an intriguing news item
From a FB post I saw, don’t know who this guy is, but I think he sums it up well…
Glenn Reib
Rob Reiner is dead. So is his wife. It was violent. It was ugly. And it's tragic in the technical sense of the word. But let's not do the dishonest thing where we pretend this man suddenly deserves reverence because he's gone. No tears will be lost here.
For decades, Reiner made a career out of sneering at half the country, smearing anyone who disagreed with him as stupid, evil, or dangerous. He didn't just criticize policies, he dehumanized people. He mocked them. He wished ruin on them. And he did it loudly, smugly, and without apology.
Now that he's gone, the same people who cheered that behavior want silence, grace, and decorum. They want critics to suddenly discover compassion they were never allowed to have themselves. Funny how that works. This isn't celebration. It's accounting.
A person's death doesn't erase the damage they spent a lifetime doing. It doesn't magically convert cruelty into courage or arrogance into virtue. Legacy isn't written at the moment of death, it's written in the years before it. And Rob Reiner's public life deserves to be remembered exactly as it was, divisive, contemptuous, and fueled by an open hatred for people he considered beneath him. No canonization. No forced mourning.
Just the truth, plain, uncomfortable, and earned. One less Meathead...
What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???
December 20, 2025, 02:40 PM
Cookster^^^^
TRUTH.
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December 20, 2025, 02:45 PM
GT-40DOCNOW I like that a LOT!! ^^^^^
December 20, 2025, 10:39 PM
mr kablammoBeing killed by your own mentally ill child is an awful tragedy. The parents have my unqualified sympathy for their last moments. Beyond the tragedy, I saw a summary of Rob's political tweets and it seems to me that a less unstable person was killed by a more unstable person. The son should have been in an instution I suppose.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
December 21, 2025, 01:03 PM
oddballThe previous page, I commented that it must be a mindfuck for Conan O'Brien, and now I cannot fathom what is going through his mind. Reportedly multiple guests wanted the police called.
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“They got in an argument, the father and son. It got so bad and loud someone wanted to call the police to report it,” the insider said, according to the paper — which cited more than one insider concerning the incident.
“But Conan stepped in and said, ‘it’s my house, my party, I’m not calling the police.’ He talked them out of calling the police,” the source added.
"When the s**t was hitting the fan, somebody said we need to call the police. The conversation was about getting this kid put into a mental-health hold,” another source said, adding, “Conan O’Brien stepped in and said, ‘no, I don’t want the police at my house."
https://www.breitbart.com/ente...ing-christmas-party/
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
December 21, 2025, 01:13 PM
Pipe Smokerquote:
Being killed by your own mentally ill child is an awful tragedy. The parents have my unqualified sympathy for their last moments.
I have no sympathy for Reiner’s last moments.
The first post on this page nails it.
Serious about crackers. December 21, 2025, 05:09 PM
ZSMICHAELquote:
should have been in an instution I suppose
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In the 1960s these patients were locked up for decades. Suddenly community care arrived and these patients were going to get outpatient care. Our local community health center closed about five years ago. The only care was to be hauled in on a commitment affidavit. You would then see a psychologist and eventually sent for custodial care for a few weeks. The patient was then back in the community.
December 21, 2025, 09:36 PM
casquote:
Originally posted by BMR:
Ironically, Carroll O'Connor was the opposite of his Archie Bunker character, as he was very liberal.
O'Conner's son also spent most of his life addicted to drugs, eventually taking his own life.
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July 05, 2026, 11:05 AM
parabellumOlder thread
Meathead still dead
He ain't around, 'cause his son cut off his head
BUT DAMN IF HE DIDN'T GET THE LAST LAUGH ON THAT EVIL DONALD TRUMP!! That's showin' 'em, Rob!!
Uh, Rob? Rob? You there, babe?
https://x.com/Variety/status/2073218740599066739July 05, 2026, 11:24 AM
ss9961Like Jill Biden, I am not a doctor.
However, in a contest of who gets the last laugh, I believe that the alive person with head still attached has ample opportunities for the last laugh.
July 05, 2026, 02:19 PM
oddballThe Last Laugh:
"Hey Donald, before I was killed by my son, I played a role as President George Washington on HBO! Take that! Well Rob, not only do my children and grandchildren love me, but none of them have killed me or want to. And by the way, I am a real life President of the United States, even while you're dead."
"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
July 05, 2026, 02:19 PM
mr kablammoThe leftists have an infinite well of stupidity and hate.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye". The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, pilot and author, lost on mission, July 1944, Med Theatre.
July 06, 2026, 09:14 AM
FredwardHe was an asshole. Now he's a dead asshole. Yawn.