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Now Is No Time for a Break (Bill Kristol threat to emigrate included)
The Bullwark ^ | Nov. 4, 2024 | William Kristol

Posted on 11/05/2024 10:11:10 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

After months of poring over every bit of polling data, of pressing friends and colleagues for insights, of closely watching debate performances and television interviews, the last piece of wisdom I was given about this election came from a fortune cookie.

Yesterday, I stumbled upon one on my kitchen counter—sitting alone, neglected, and unopened. I opened it, only to find the most inviting of advice: “It’s time to take a break.”

A break! How wonderful the thought. How appropriate a message for Election Day—the moment where our exhaustion turns to anxiety as we wait for results to come in.

But this is no time for a break.

First of all, everyone needs to vote, if they haven’t yet. And everyone needs to get as many like-minded voters to the polls as you can. So no break until this evening.

And after that? Time for a break?

Sorry, the answer’s still no.

Let’s consider the two possible outcomes.

If Donald Trump wins tonight, I’ll be tempted to follow Abraham Lincoln’s counsel from his 1855 letter to Joshua Speed: “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

Fear not. I’m not heading off to Russia! Still, back here at home, we’ll face a major, even daunting, task. For the next four years, we’ll have to re-constitute a loyal opposition—loyal to the Declaration and the Constitution, loyal to what America has been and should be. We’ll have to organize to try to limit the damage Trump can do in a second term, and lay the groundwork for future recovery.

So it’s clear that if Trump wins, it will be no time to give up, no time to take more than a short (okay, maybe medium-length) break for a few stiff drinks. We’ll have to fortify ourselves by recalling the wonderful admonition of the great John McCain: It’s always darkest before it turns pitch black. Then back into the fray!


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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
After months of poring over every bit of polling data

What a brain-damaged retard.

I don't pay much attention to polls.

The Gaslight Media mostly puts them out to assist their Horse Race Narrative.

21 posted on 11/05/2024 10:25:46 AM PST by kiryandil (Kraft durch Freude! - The Kamunist and The Walzrus )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

He could just shut up and retire. That works, too.


22 posted on 11/05/2024 10:28:02 AM PST by CommerceComet (Re-elect Donald Trump - AGAIN)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

I feel so much better that Bill Kristol is not leaving us!😉😊


23 posted on 11/05/2024 10:28:52 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Bill is 71 years old.


24 posted on 11/05/2024 10:30:51 AM PST by lurk (u)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Message to scumbag Kristol: You will not be allowed to escape. You are going to be severely punished. Pain is coming for you and your ilk. The sooner you can accept this fact, the sooner you can make peace with your God.

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only Trump has the Key.


25 posted on 11/05/2024 10:33:07 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Of course he wouldn’t go to Russia, Ukraine, maybe.


26 posted on 11/05/2024 10:34:00 AM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Double FUBK


27 posted on 11/05/2024 10:34:56 AM PST by abbastanza (Oh boy. Can’t wait. Go nuts kids)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

I love the fact he let us all know how much he is suffering.

He went up against Trump and lost everything.

I love the fact he was likely tipped off to watch the rally in Butler, sat drinking on the phone with the ghost of Molly Goldburg in anticipation of receiving his copy of the new Zapruder II film, but the patsy missed leaving him weeping and spitting obsenities throughout the night.


28 posted on 11/05/2024 10:36:12 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh (there will come a day when FR rejects articles from the NYT, et al. as "Commie trash, no thank you")
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

I can’t help feeling sad as I remember how much I enjoyed these people back in the day. I split from them when they split from My Hero. Just sad that I won’t mind at all if he left. I’d only mind if he stayed to keep playing superior. That would really be sad.


29 posted on 11/05/2024 10:37:20 AM PST by mairdie (Trump (I Will Win) - Pavarotti's Nessun Dorma - https://youtu.be/MigUKGKr-nQ)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Abraham Lincoln’s counsel from his 1855 letter to Joshua Speed: "When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."

"My estimation of Abraham Lincoln, as a man, just f*cking plummeted."

No, seriously: In his letter, Lincoln was writing about the expansion of SLAVERY.

Regards,

30 posted on 11/05/2024 10:38:09 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
But what if Kamala Harris wins? O happy day!

The place of William Kristol's birth ought be stricken from all maps, and the the site razed with the remants used for the construction of thoroughfare playbills proclaiming his traitorous shame and ignominy.


31 posted on 11/05/2024 10:38:49 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: alexander_busek

32 posted on 11/05/2024 10:39:08 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Billy is scared


33 posted on 11/05/2024 10:42:43 AM PST by Zathras
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Unfortunately, Kristol isn’t going anywhere. He’s nothing more than a drama queen (perhaps, literally) desperately trying to preserve what little remains of his political and social revelance.


34 posted on 11/05/2024 10:42:45 AM PST by glennaro (2024: The Year of The Reckoning, lest our Republic succumb to the "progressive" disease of the Left)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
"Bill Kristol threat to emigrate"

Buh-bye 👋 Don't let the door hit you in the a$$ on the way out.

35 posted on 11/05/2024 10:43:01 AM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Pray for President Trump. Never be a slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Deliberately cost his promising son a position in the Trump Administration, and banished him to some vulture capital's glass-walled attic.

Words fail me.

36 posted on 11/05/2024 10:44:53 AM PST by StAnDeliver (TrumpII)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Poor Russia to have the communist go there.


37 posted on 11/05/2024 10:45:02 AM PST by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Yep, won’t get those minutes of my life back.


38 posted on 11/05/2024 10:48:45 AM PST by Dave911
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

They are fighting on MSNBC. Take them some Crierball Bill.


39 posted on 11/05/2024 10:53:26 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Zathras

I would find it hard to believe that Kristol is NOT on the Epstein Island list. There must have been a few little boys there, after all.


40 posted on 11/05/2024 11:04:50 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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