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 $ TomB666 8 years, 11 months ago
    Is he forgetting about supreme court appointments? I have no doubt that Clinton would continue (as Obummer did) to appoint justices who have no regard for the Constitution or History. By the way, O's court appointments are his real legacy - much worse then Obamacare.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 8 years, 11 months ago
    Entertaining. Notice what he says about Trump. "Of Donald Trump, he warned: "They've got this button, you know? It's in a briefcase. He's gonna find it."

    Doesn't matter if it is true. It will affect people's decisions.
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  • Posted by mia767ca 8 years, 11 months ago
    HillaryBeast & her husband, Bill, have murdered or raped more individuals than 40 Trumps (i do not support Trump)...both candidates are horrible...vote Libertarian...or don't vote...have a clear conscience...
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Most of Carlin's later politically related routines were right on target regarding the corruption in government and the corporatocracy.
    You may be right about voters' minds.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    But Johnson got to fabricate Tonkin Gulf and reverse Kennedy's removal of troops from Vietnam and start two or three big delicious money making wars for his crony statist corporatist friends. Hell he wasn't even eloquent and a racist to boot.

    So maybe come to think of it Trump is the reincarnation of Lyndon Butcher Johnson?

    Looks like the Rules Committee might cave and fail to uphold their own rules.

    Talk about out in the cold with nothing but the draft to claim our loyalty. Ha ha what an unintentional pun that turned out to be.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    however he did invent 'left wing fascist' or rather resurrect it and for that he gets a belated thumbs up. Carlin that is to say not the other ....
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  • Posted by paris1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Which is what I've been doing since the early seventies. good God, objectivists on this site can be prickly (to say nothing of presumptuous!).
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  • Posted by paris1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    PJ is by no means a favorite of mine. I just thought his comment is representative of what is going on in a lot of voters' minds. And Carlin, in his later years, was nothing but a cynical old leftist. I couldn't listen to him for more than 5 minutes.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 11 months ago
    Listening to entertainers on politics is stupid unless it's really insightful, smart, and funny. George Carlin was all three. PJ strikes out.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "What's a fella' to do?"
    Use your brain and stop voting for evil because the evidence shows that the major party candidates are just two sides of the same rigged statist coin. Vote for either and you lose big.
    Put them both in a time capsule and bury it for 200 years.
    Then get an unbiased goin coin. Vote Libertarian.
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  • Posted by paris1 8 years, 11 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Of course all that depends on which day you selectively quote Trump on, doesn't it?
    To me, the more important point that PJ makes is that a whole lot of people will vote for Clinton because she is wrong about absolutely everything, but within "acceptable parameters". Meaning that most of us settle for status quo. Trump is a loose cannon and that makes a lot of people very uneasy (including me!) What's a fella' to do?
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 8 years, 11 months ago
    So this guy who says that we should not have invaded Iraq, and that the U.S. military should not be used all over the world. The guy who says that diplomacy is the first option and military force the last. The guy who wrote the book on the art of making deals is going to start nuking people?

    Why think that -- well, because it worked for Johnson against Goldwater.
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