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Patton Oswalt calls for Trump impeachment: 'Help isn't coming'
Entertainment Weekly ^ | August 24, 2018 | James Hibberd

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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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 2016; hillary; impeach; impeachment; oswalt; television; trump
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To: Celerity
I agree.

Oswalt's stand-up routines USED to be hilarious.

He wasn't really "political" at the time.

Then something happened to him and he went angry liberal anti-Christian.

And this was before Trump.

Now he's just a bitter little unfunny man.

41 posted on 08/25/2018 7:06:44 PM PDT by boop ("I said give me the brandy!")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...He’s a D List actor and stand-up comedian...

A male version of Kathy Griffin.


42 posted on 08/25/2018 8:09:03 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: abb

I thought he was a baseball player. NEVER MIND!


43 posted on 08/25/2018 8:22:47 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

yeah, Oswalt is pretty sure that the U.S. Constitution has a little known clause that if enough people sign a petition, then the President gets impeached ...


44 posted on 08/25/2018 9:04:20 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: catnipman

And Hillary is automatically plopped into the Oval Office, all Trump judicial appointments are out on their rear ends and creepy Kaine is now living at the Naval Observatory.


45 posted on 08/25/2018 9:12:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“And Hillary is automatically plopped into the Oval Office, all Trump judicial appointments are out on their rear ends and creepy Kaine is now living at the Naval Observatory.”

plus, Gorsuch would automatically be de-appointed to SCOTUS ...


46 posted on 08/25/2018 9:27:25 PM PDT by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: abb

He does tell funny stories but swears and swears in his comedy routines negating the funny.

These people just make stuff up while ignoring the clintons and obamas and the democrat party massive crimes. In short no morals.


47 posted on 08/26/2018 12:04:19 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The epitome of eloqution...hows your 401k doing these days Patton?


48 posted on 08/27/2018 4:56:57 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Metrobank
Meredith Salenger BEFORE Oswalt

Meredith Salenger AFTER Oswalt


49 posted on 08/27/2018 5:19:06 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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