Posted on 05/10/2016 12:20:07 PM PDT by fella
NPR/P J O’Rourke, why am I not surprised.
The TOKEN CONSERVATIVE at NPR wants to keep his job, so what’s new?
He is an old alum of the original (and funny like SNL used to be) National Lampoon. He is a red diaper baby, a child and utter poltroon from the Sixties - that explains his politics.
He's really most like an old fashioned Democrat, of the Ed Koch variety, loudly patriotic but hardly anti-government, who has captured the hearts and imaginations of Americans who are sick and tired of the pansy professional political class grinning as they rob us while running the country into the ground.
Trump's the joker in the deck. His crude directness and unpredictability are things many if not most voters find to be his best features. I would not be surprised if P.J. is playing the court fool by endorsing Hillary. If he's serious it may just be taking longer for him than some of us to realize that a stark choice between the known of Hillary and the gamble that is Trump is no choice at all.
He is an old alum of the original (and funny like SNL used to be) National Lampoon.
Nor will it exist long if Trump carries out his threat to "open up" the libel laws.
My stock analogy is that putting Trump in is like pulling your goalie in hockey—you really do not want to get yourself into the position where that is your best option, but if you find yourself in that position, then go for it.
“The FCC tried not so long ago to stymie Drudge and others like him.”
Sure, they can try, but I doubt they will succeed. Perhaps against some sites, but not against determined publishers.
A domain name is quite ethereal, and a website itself is just data that can be backed up on something you can carry on your keychain nowadays. It’s a trivial matter to register a domain name outside of US juridiction, set up web hosting (even better, multiple hosts) outside of US jurisdiction, and then you can’t be touched by the FCC. Unless they intend to filter the entire country’s internet traffic like Iran or China does, there is nothing they can do to stop this.
There's probably a lot of $$ to be made there.
He has to. Social acceptance by the NPR types is extremely important to him.
He is not for government healthcare at all. Read his positions, instead of just listening to Cruz. What he did say is that we must make it so everyone can acquire healthcare, but from the private market.
Also, he said that the rich along with everyone else will pay less taxes except those rich who pay no taxes. They will start paying a fair share of taxes.
Donald Trump clarified Monday that he doesn't plan to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in the aggregate, despite seemingly saying so during interviews aired Sunday.
"On my plan they're going down. But by the time it's negotiated, they'll go up," Trump said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
But Trump told CNN's Chris Cuomo on "New Day" that he was referring to changes to "my tax proposal" -- not the existing tax code -- when he said rates could go up. He meant to communicate that he was open to top rates higher than those in his proposal as part of the negotiations to get tax reform passed, but also maintained they would remain lower than the current rate.
"Now, if I increase it on the wealthy, they're still going to pay less than they pay now," the presumptive Republican nominee said. "I'm not talking about increasing from this point. I'm talking about increasing from my tax proposal."
On Sunday, Trump said his tax plan is the starting point for negotiations with Congress.
Bottom line, P.J. is in reality an uniformed voter who is supporting the worse of the two choices.
Claiming that Trump is too extreme is a false reason for voting for Hillary. The pendulum has swung so far left that you need a far right force to approach equilibrium.
They’ll dig for anything. If only people had been this opposed to that pathological liar Obama.
I’ll give Rev. David Manning one thing - he’s consistently stood up again the Mack Daddy Obama. Might not agree with DM on everything but he sure nailed BamBam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-_nM89ThFU
"Red Diaper baby" would mean his parents were Communists or leftists. They weren't, so he isn't. He does admit that he was (or wanted to be) a hippie back in the 60s, before he grew up.
O'Rourke's an East Coast libertarian whose link to conservatism is The Weekly Standard, so of course he takes the view he does. He's like Christopher Buckley who turned Democrat, or Tom Wolfe, a "conservative" who votes Democrat half the time.
But if people want to convince or rebut him, they have to come up with something better than saying that the next Democrat is going to end the country. America survived Clinton I and is surviving Obama. It will probably survive Clinton II. So one needs to have a better argument than that.
Sure Trump threatened lawsuits, those take time and would be reprehensible. He would seek as he said to change the law.
Hillary will use the faster method of arrest, detain, and throw away the cell door key. Hillary won’t require any law.
Hillary will use the faster method of arrest, detain, and throw away the cell door key.
Free Speech will go underground. That’s someway to live in the USA.
You’re right: PJ wants to preserve the status quo (normal parameters), just like the establishment of both parties.
He is clever and pithy, but he has never been a true conservative - more of a quasi-libertarian/independent-whatever.
This campaign season has more twists and turns and surprises than a Jasper FForde novel.
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I’ve never seen or heard of such a bizarre and convoluted season.
It would be more fun if the stakes were less.
These people are not thinking clearly and have lost their way.
O’Rourke has been lame for a long time.
P.J. O’Rourke IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE.
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