P.J O'Rourke endorses Hillary Clinton

Posted by paris1 8 years, 11 months ago to The Gulch: General
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This is P.J. at his most insightful! Unfortunately, it's also the logic that will no doubt carry the day this fall. How in the world did we get to this point? (rhetorical question!)

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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Only in an imagined paradise. If myself and the ones I love will suffer because of the "wrong" decision, and if there is a possibility, even a slight one, of getting a better result over time, that will be my decision.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "There was a freak accident this morning. Two freaks in a mini-bus ran into a freak on a motorcycle."
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Can't argue with the unjustified denigration. As to simple minded, I don't think anyone believes that. I put it down to not getting a point made with proper use of words expressing thoughts accurately. I find myself doing that at (rare) times..(Passion overcoming expression.)
    I am old enough to remember Libertarianism getting politically off the ground, and listening to Murray Rothbard expound.
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  • Posted by chad 8 years, 11 months ago
    Choosing from two brands of evil is still choosing evil. Neither of these two offer a choice of liberty, each offers a different brand of slavery. Choosing not to vote demonstrates clear thinking.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Granted and agreed. But I can't figure out way and it's not state for some reason. One is more of a political system and the other is more a tool to check premises ....to validate or invalidate or improve any value system. I've seen no evidence of an objectivist political movement poiint to you. But I've seen no real evidence that libertarians are willing to budge an inch such as in forming a working coalition of the the disenfranchised.

    At last I smoked out a thinker.
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  • Posted by paris1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "Presuming" that I am too simple-minded to realize that there is the libertarian alternative, which, BTW, is more often than not denigrated by people here.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ahhh but that leaves one not accounted for. Hillary and Bernie are covered but what about...

    Well AR said when the question has three possible answers...right, wrong and compromise that makes two wrong answers and one right answer.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Are you serious? Mrs. Clinton would never use anything less than Louis Vuiton. (Damn! How do you spell that name?)
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    paris1:
    Prickly is what you get from independent hard-to-intimidate contributors. You'll find very few woosies on this site. However, a few do go overboard now and then, but it is rarely irrational, it is passion. The presumptuousness you'll have to explain to me.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Sure... when you can't win don't ante up. vote None of the above. That's the first best choice. Second choice is figure out how to get an honest game. Last choice is vote to be a loser no matter what cards are being dealt.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    agreed that is what we should have been doing but hat time is past. let them have it. and the over due bill.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 11 months ago
    And why should we settle for the second worst thing, since when is that better than the Best thing.

    Isn't that what we should be shooting for? We're not!!!... because we haven't shouted louder that the hilteries, the brurnties or the trumpeters...

    Talk about a shouting contest! that's all it's been!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 11 months ago
    What does the P.J. stand for? It must be Poor Judgment. I think the PJ has reversed things. Trump may be bad, but Clinton is many times worse. Remember the English Navy's advise when encountering insect infected food: "Of two weevils, pick the lesser."
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  • Posted by $ rainman0720 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Speaking of Hillary and baggage...There's a section in the Indianapolis Star called Let It Out. This was an entry this morning:

    "Hillary’s got so much baggage her husband’s Secret Service code name is 'Samsonite.' "
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 11 months ago
    This guy is a real wack job. Why on earth would Donald Trump push the nuclear button of all things?? Much more likely Obama would as a threat to get Snowden extradited, or some other stupid reason.
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  • Posted by wmiranda 8 years, 11 months ago
    Hillary... way too much baggage. There's that honesty issue too. She'll say she's Native American by 1/64 if she's speaking to Native Americans or her ancestors were illegal aliens if speaking to illegal aliens. It's true that lifelong career politicians are predictable but not reliable. I'm through with lifelong politicians.
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