Posted on 08/25/2018 5:06:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Actor-comedian Patton Oswalt has posted an essay urging readers to sign a petition to impeach Donald Trump.
The Justified actor and stand-up wrote an article for McSweeney’s where he blasts the president and said it’s up to voters to rise up make their voices heard because “help isn’t coming.”
“Cooler heads do not prevail,” Oswalt wrote of what he dubbed “Trump’s Casino-Buffet Presidency” in the wake of rising impeachment chatter.
“There is no firm, guiding hand on the tiller of statecraft, the economy, diplomacy, or infrastructure,” he continued. “There is puerile, adolescent emotion and momentary libidinal pleasure. And the rest is up to us. We march in the streets, we petition our representatives, we raise money and signal-boost fundraisers for the weak, vulnerable, and unlucky. Because this is the epoch of the entitled bully, and everyone else — even those who support the bullies but just so happen to be weak — can f–k right off. If we see racism? We call it out and deal with it. They’re not going to step in. If we see blatant hypocrisy and greed? We do our best to curtail it, ’cause it’s what they’re aspiring to.”
And concluded: “America is off-course, brakeless, blindly rushing toward oblivion? We should steal our neighbor’s seatbelts and try to save ourselves, because not only is there no one at the wheel — we’re not even allowed near the driver’s seat.” and then: “It’s. All. On. Us.”
He then linked to a petition to impeach Trump that currently has 5.6 million signatures.
On Twitter, Oswalt — who has railed against Trump often in the past — seemed pessimistic that his essay would have much impact, but noted he “had to light a sparkler in the maelstrom.”
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Never heard of him...
Me neither
He’s a D List actor and stand-up comedian.
He used to be on King of Queens many years ago - he’s a PUTZ
So. Another total unknown from Hollywood doesn’t understand our representative system
Of governance. Like, just how many ignoramouses do they have in California, anyway?
Patton Oswalt has some twitter fame similar to James Gunn.
He’s standing!?
Sounds to me as though he’s slumped at the bar.
They are Legion.
Patton who? Wasn’t he an American General?
Part of me can’t wait until the upcoming War.
Saw his stand up routine years ago. Lots of jokes about masturbation and not getting laid. The latter leads to the former, or so I have heard.
It’s a real shame, his bit on Carvel ice cream had me in tears. I mean, I was broken up - I listened to it for the first time behind the wheel and had to pull over and get out of the car - I was laughing so hard.
Since then, I watch everything that he does but he’ll never be that funny again.
This guy’s wife died a few years ago and within a few months he was re-engaged to his .. I think makeup girl.
And now we know why his wife died of a drug overdose.
why do celebrities think their opinion matters more than everyone else’s?
I think patton what’s-his-face is unfunny, so we’re even.
He probably said the same thing to his wife, “help isn’t coming.”
Patton Oswalt an obnoxious twit
Shut up, Spence!
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