Former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke speaks to local residents during a stop at the Central Park Coffee Company in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, on March 15, 2019. (Charlie Neibergall/AP Photo)
Democrat 2020 Candidate Beto O’Rourke Wrote Story About Killing 38 People
Democratic Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke wrote a short story as a teen about killing 38 people and described the murders as “acts of love.”
An excerpt of the story first surfaced in a profile of O’Rourke published by Reuters on March 15. An archive of the entire killing-spree-story has since been unearthed online.
“The more people I killed, the longer my dreams were,” O’Rourke wrote. “I soon quit my job, and stayed at my house in an almost comatose state. My dreams grew longer and more vivid. They kept me alive and proved to be the only thing to live for. I had killed nearly 38 people by the time of my twenty-third birthday, and each one was more fulfilling than the last.”
In the story, O’Rourke writes that the notion for the killing spree came to him during “dreams and visions.” Eventually, he writes, the desire could no longer be suppressed.
“Recognizing this fact, my one and only goal in life became the termination of everything that was free and loving,” O’Rourke wrote.
The first victims of the killing spree described in the story were two children. O’Rourke wrote that as the children crossed a road they looked happy. But their “happiness was mine by right,” O’Rourke wrote, before describing the killing.
“As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two,” O’Rourke wrote.
O’Rourke then described being fascinated and having “sweet visions” fill his head until an old man with a cane interrupted him knocking on his front window.
“He might have been a witness to my act of love. I was not sure, nor did I care. It was simply ecstasy,” O’Rourke wrote about the old man. “As I drove home, I envisioned myself committing more of these ‘acts of love,’ and after a while, I had no trouble carrying them out.”
The short story is part of several disturbing writings by O’Rourke unearthed by Reuters, The Associated Press, and Yahoo News. In another story, he goes on an expletive-laden, deprecating rant about girls who he refers to as “ultra-trendies.”
O’Rourke wrote the stories under the pseudonym “Psychedelic Warlord” as part of a prominent early hacking group called Cult of the Dead Cow.
O’Rourke apologized for the violent writings on March 15 and said he is now “mortified” by the violent fiction.
O’Rourke is one of 15 Democrats who have officially announced their candidacy for the 2020 presidential race. In early polling, he is among the handful of the top candidates, but far behind socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and former Vice President Joe Biden. Biden has not officially announced his run but is widely expected to do so.
Similar to most of the Democrats who have announced their candidacies, O’Rourke is embracing the socialist Medicare for All and Green New Deal policies. While most of the candidates have publicly distanced themselves from socialism, O’Rourke refused to denounce the ideology, even under repeated questioning by the BBC.
Democratic socialists Sen. Ben Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sponsored the Medicare for All bill and the Green New Deal resolution in Congress. Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist group in the United States, and Communist Party USA are fervently backing both the Green New Deal and Medicare for All.
The Beto O’Rourke campaign for the Democratic Party presidential nomination: “Nothing will come of nothing”
On Thursday former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke became the 15th declared candidate for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. The 15th so far. There are more nonentities, hucksters and reactionaries to follow.
O’Rourke is a conventional American bourgeois politician. He attempts to make something out of his relative youth, “punk rock” background and tactical differences with ultra-reactionaries such as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, against whom he ran for the US Senate seat in Texas in 2018.
But as Shakespeare’s King Lear once noted, ominously for everyone concerned as it turned out, “Nothing will come of nothing.”
Beto O'Rourke on the cover of Vanity Fair
O’Rourke’s three-minute video released Thursday announcing his candidacy for the 2020 nomination is presumably typical of what we can expect from him, i.e., a stream of stock phrases and empty generalities intended to be vaguely urgent, uplifting and optimistic without committing the candidate to anything.
Seated, with rolled-up sleeves, by his wordless, adoring wife and carefully emphasizing those words and phrases his advisors have presumably told him are vital to the success of his venture, O’Rourke began: “Amy and I are happy to share with you that I’m running to serve you as the next president of the United States of America. This is a defining moment of truth for this country and for every single one of us. The challenges that we face right now, the interconnected crises in our economy, our democracy and our climate have never been greater. And they will either consume us, or they will afford us the greatest opportunity to unleash the genius of the United States of America. In other words, this moment of peril produces perhaps the greatest moment of promise for this country and for everyone inside of it.”
Many viewers may not have been as pleased as O’Rourke and his wife to learn that he was selflessly and generously proposing to “serve” them as president. Indeed, the offer must have struck a good many as over-generous and even uninvited. Voices were heard to mutter, “No, thank you, on the whole, we’d rather you didn’t.”
Moreover, based on what we have seen so far of the Texas politician, including his recent video effort, it is not likely that O’Rourke will be part of that American “genius” he threatens to “unleash.”
O’Rourke’s primary claim to fame is making the Senate contest with Cruz, a detestable figure, in 2018 a close one. That had little to do with O’Rourke, much less any “progressive” content to his campaign. Indeed, as the WSWS noted at the time, his candidacy was prominently endorsed by former CIA director John Brennan, arch-war criminal and defender of torture and drone missile assassinations. In addition, the three-term El Paso congressman won the backing of the Houston Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, three of the state’s most prominent newspapers and traditional supporters of Republican candidates, including George W. Bush.
In that 2018 race, O’Rourke was able to raise tens of millions of dollars from donors all over the US. Given the egotism and self-admiration of such types, it was perhaps inevitable that he drew the conclusion he had a vast following, rather than seeing his support as an expression of widespread revulsion at the semi-fascist Cruz.
In fact, both major parties are widely held in contempt. Following upon a presidential election in 2016 between the two most disliked candidates in US history, the general standing of Democratic and Republican politicians with the public remains at all-time lows. As of December 2018, the US Congress had an 18 percent job approval rating. A CNN headline in 2017 summed up the general situation: “Poll: Trump, Democrats and GOP all unpopular.”
There is no American politician, with the possible and mistaken exception of Sen. Bernie Sanders, associated with widely popular attacks on the “billionaire class,” who has a genuine base of support.
“Betomania” is a media concoction intended to deceive the population. Coinciding neatly with his presidential bid announcement, Vanity Fairmagazine put O’Rourke—on a rural dirt road, dressed in jeans and in the company of a black Labrador—on the cover of its March 13 edition. The cover reads: “Beto’s Choice—‘I want to be in it. Man, I was born to be in it.’ His road to 2020 begins.” Those who fall for this sort of nonsense…
“Kennedy-esque,” “a fresh face,” “an inspirational speaker,” “untested but charismatic”—it goes on and on. According to Politico,” O’Rourke has catapulted to become one of the Democratic Party’s most buzzed-about prospects.”
The Democratic Party specializes in coming up with “mavericks” with nothing unconventional about them, “independents” joined at the hip to the corporate-financial elite and “populists” whose policies would further damage the population.
O’Rourke, a businessman whose real estate developer father-in-law is worth an estimated $500 million (according to Forbes), recently affirmed his support for the existing economic system, the source of every social ill in America. The Wall Street Journal reported his comments: “I'm a capitalist … I don't see how we're able to meet any of the fundamental challenges that we have as a country without, in part, harnessing the power of the market. Climate change is the most immediate example of that. If you're going to bring the total innovation and ingenuity of this country to bear … our economy is going to have to be a part of that.”
O’Rourke, promising a “people-powered campaign” and urging the building of “the greatest grassroots campaign ever,” could not even manage at a 2018 town hall to term himself a political “progressive.” He wretchedly explained, “I don't know … I'm not big on labels. I don't get all fired up about party or classifying or defining people based on a label or a group. I’m for everyone.” Or, as an Associated Press headline put it, “O’Rourke begins 2020 bid with big crowds, centrist message.”
His views on the anti-Russian campaign (he supported impeachment of Trump over his summit with Vladimir Putin), the military, immigration and every other major issue are in line, give or take, with the rest of the political establishment. He has criticized Trump’s fascistic ranting about Mexican immigrants but opposes amnesty for the undocumented and open borders and praises the current level of border “security,” which has led to the deaths of thousands of desperate people.
Even O’Rourke’s record on border walls, in opposition to which he recently led a well-publicized protest, in the words of the Associated Press, “is complicated. In March, he supported a spending package that other leading Democratic contenders opposed and included $1.6 billion for border wall construction in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley and elsewhere. Buried in that was $445 million for repairs of existing fencing elsewhere—including El Paso.” O’Rourke’s “action attracted criticism from people who know the border best. Scott Nicol, co-chairman of the Sierra Club’s Borderlands team, called it ‘very disappointing.’”
O’Rourke apparently hopes to follow in the footsteps of Barack Obama, a largely unknown individual with little political history who was picked up by powerful economic and state interests and packaged for the benefit of the public as the candidate of “change.”
Following his Thursday video release, the Atlantic noted in a headline that O’Rourke “wants to be Obama.” The magazine commented: “A long time ago already, Obama became a celebrity himself, propelled to run for president mostly because of one amazing convention speech, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize without seeming to have done all that much to earn it other than win the Electoral College and not be George W. Bush.”
The article also observed that in his video announcement O’Rourke “gave no specifics on how he’d do anything he wants to do, or even exactly what that might be … other than a long pledge to uplift people and bring the country together, instead of tearing it apart, as Trump has. Nor did he give specifics at his first event, in Iowa later in the morning and carried live on cable—he talked about health care but didn’t mention ‘Medicare for all’ or any alternative. He was asked about the Green New Deal but talked generally about the climate as he addressed ‘the spirit of the question.’ There are T-shirts and hats for sale online, with just his first name. It’s not up on hotels or towers anywhere, but no other Democrat running is famous enough to be quite such a brand.”
In other words, without fully meaning to, the Atlantic piece paints the portrait of a political charlatan, an empty vessel who will be at the service of the oligarchy.
Not everyone is happy with O’Rourke. The New York Times, speaking for upper-middle-class layers obsessed with gender and race, expressed disappointment with the entrance of a white male into the Democratic presidential mix.
One Times piece observed Friday that the “charismatic” Texas Democrat’s “three-minute clip quickly racked up thousands of shares, with some viewers excited by the prospect of his out-of-nowhere political rise. But others were put off by how his campaign deployed an age-old trope in American political theater—the silent, supportive wife. …
“Mr. O’Rourke’s video struck some observers as especially out of place in a presidential race in which more Democratic women are running for president than ever before. Among several of these women, the husbands are rarely seen.”
Another Times column March 15 noted somberly that some “voters and activists have also wondered aloud if a white man is the best fit for this Democratic moment, particularly after midterm successes powered often by female and nonwhite candidates.”
O’Rourke is as good “a fit” as any of the other big-business politicians in the race, all vying to become the highest political representative in charge of “managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”
The fraud of the O’Rourke candidacy brings out sharply and dramatically the desiccation of the American political system, its alienation from the broad mass of the population and the antidemocratic character of the entire electoral process.
BILLIONAIRE BETO “BETOMATIC” O’ROURKE’S SABOTATE OF HOMELAND SECURITY… is it a globalist deal with NARCOMEX?
The Democrat Party’s secret agenda for wider open borders, more welfare for invading illegals, more jobs and free anything they illegally vote for…. All to destroy the two-party system and build the GLOBALISTS’ DEMOCRAT PARTY FOR WIDER OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED.
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/11/frontpage-hidden-agenda-of-pueblo-sin.html
Demonstrably and irrefutably the Democrat Party became the party whose principle objective is to thoroughly transform the nature of the American electorate by means of open borders and the mass, unchecked importation of illiterate third world peasants who will vote in overwhelming numbers for Democrats and their La Raza welfare state. FRONTPAGE MAG
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Beto “BETOMATIC” O’Rourke announces his candidacy on the GLOBALIST BILLIONAIRE LA RAZA SUPREMACY DEMOCRAT platform for wider open borders and mucho cheapo labor!
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BILLIONAIRE BETO “BETOMATIC” O’ROURKE’S MURDERING UNREGISTERED DEM VOTING ILLEGALS
ICE Releases Hundreds of Migrants in Texas over Christmas
Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX), who lost his Senate bid to incumbent Republican Ted Cruz, is cited in the story as being instrumental in making sure ICE informs city officials of impending releases.
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(BETO, BILLIONAIRES, INEQUALITY, OPEN BORDERS)
BILLONAIRE BETO “BETOMATIC” O’ROURKE PROCLAIMS AMNESTY FOR 40 MILLION INVADING “UNREGISTERED” DEMOCRAT VOTING ILLEGALS.
No word on America’s homeless, housing or jobs crisis for Legals!
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UPDATE ON BILLIONAIRE BETOMATIC’S ASSAULT ON AMERICA’S BORDERS AND CULTURE
Beto’s solution to the wall issue: let the rest of Mexico jump our open borders and vote democrat for more and no wall will be needed!
IS BETOMATIC A CLONE OF BANKSTER-OWNED BARACK OBAMA, THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST WHO SURRENDERED OUR BORDERS FOR 8 YEARS AS HE AND HOLDER SERVICED THEIR CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTERS.
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“Our entire crony capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great country is raided by its elite.” – Karen McQuillan AMERICAN THINKER.com
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OBAMANOMICIS:
Further, nearly 60% think that the next generation will be worse off than they are. And few have any faith that the economic outlook for the country will improve in the near or distant future.
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There are many parallels between “Betomania” and “Obamamania,” and O’Rourke has been called the “white Obama.”
He is married to the daughter of a billionaire, so if nominated, Democrats would have a hard time attacking Republicans for supporting a billionaire president without being accused of hypocrisy.
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“Beto also questioned whether the Constitution was still relevant, which makes one wonder how seriously he would take the oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” should he be sworn in as president.”
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WORDS OF A PSYCHOPATH BARACK OBAMA:
"In his 2006 autobiography The Audacity of Hope, then-Senator Obama wrote, “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” That is why Obama won the presidency, and should O’Rourke win too, that is why he will have won"
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VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY LIKE TEXAS’ NARCOMEX BORDER COUNTIES THAT VOTED VIVA BETOMATIC?
BETO O’ROURKE HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY MEXICO. HOW IMPORTANT WILL THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES BE?
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“In 2018, a volunteer for the Beto campaign urged followers to transport undocumented aliens (ILLEGALS) to the polls.”
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“Many liberals believe that anyone in the United States – citizen or non-citizen – should be able to vote. If they want to make that argument and change the law to make it happen, they are more than welcome to try. Of course, if they run on that issue, they will get slaughtered at the polls. So instead of going to the American people and working to change the law, they try an underhanded dirty trick to achieve the same goal.” APOLO VILLALOBOS
"American elites continue focusing on a global order while ignoring the decline of the United States. A broken America will be unable to meet any geopolitical threats abroad. Any national security strategy that does not begin with securing our own national security at home will be doomed to fail." DANIEL GREENFIELD
Knowing that the wall will become a reality if the President gets the cash brings out the cheap-labor-express, wealthy power brokers like the Billionaires for Open Borders: Michael Bloomberg; Rupert Murdoch; other distinguished members of the Forbes 500; and, as Lou Dobbs often reminds us, the "globalists, the Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, Koch brothers and Wall Street."
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LA RAZA SUPREMACIST BETO “BETOMATIC” O’ROURKE… openly endorsed by Mexico!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/12/rep-beto-orourke-celebrates-his.html
O’Rourke tweeted his support for hundreds of undocumented people into American communities.
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“Many thanks to volunteers & donors who ensure that we take care of families being released by ICE in El Paso. 200 to be released today. Over 500 tomorrow.” BETO O’ROURKE
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We’ve got an even more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas into the country of Mexico….. AND THE ENEMY IS THE LA RAZA SUPREMACIST GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY!
Beyond Parody: Beto Apologizes For Jokes About Wife Less Than 48 Hours Into Campaign, Says White Privilege Made Him Do It
Could it be that the reason a majority of liberals want socialism is that they are simply too tired from apologizing all the time to muster up any energy to work? The latest mea culpa comes from 2020 presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke less than 48 hours into his campaign.
Beto, who the National Review aptly describes as a weirdo and "a man so apart from other human beings that he recently thought nothing of ditching his wife and three kids so he could drive around the country, alone", asked forgiveness for several jokes he made about his family while on the campaign trail.
Beto often jokes that his spouse raises his kids with "some help from him." Apparently, this remark highlights his white privilege, and for that he is sorry.
"Not only will I not say that again, but I'll be more thoughtful going forward in the way that I talk about our marriage, and also the way in which I acknowledge the truth of the criticism that I have enjoyed white privilege," the candidate said Friday evening in Cedar Rapids.
Critics ranging from Democratic operatives to liberal activists were mortified the white, heterosexual male would make such comments. But, Beto admits these moral superiors are astute in their opprobrium.
"So yes, I think the criticism is right on. My ham-handed attempt to try to highlight the fact that Amy has the lion's share of the burden in our family -- that she actually works but is the primary parent in our family, especially when I served in Congress, especially when I was on the campaign trail -- should have also been a moment for me to acknowledge that that is far too often the case, not just in politics, but just in life in general. I hope as I have been in some instances part of the problem, I can also be part of the solution," Beto added according to CNN.
The man touted by some as "Tex Kennedy" with a driving record to complement the actual Ted Kennedy, is just the latest Democratic candidate to beg for forgiveness in what some describe as "The 'I'm sorry' 2020 Democratic Primary." With already 15 Democratic hopefuls seeking their party's nomination and nearly as many apologies for past positions that offend the progressive Puritans, it is clear this is going to be a long, long road until the actual election against Republican President Donald J. Trump.
Beto O'Rourke: Poet for the Democrats
Beto O'Rourke, the Texas Democrat who'd like to be your next president, sure has an oeuvre to uplift and inspire the voters.
Here's one of the former computer hacker's poems that's surfaced from the WayBack machine, written under a pseudonym, in all its glory:
If it's a bit grainy on the screen, the Daily Caller has helpfully supplied a spoken recital of it on YouTube.
At age 16, he seemed to have wanted sex with a cow or something.
His literary efforts were about as impressive, too — but only in the sense that they leave an impression. He graphically wrote of driving a car into the bodies of live children, describing in loving detail how it all felt.
"As I neared the young ones, I put all my weight on my right foot, keeping the accelerator pedal on the floor until I heard the crashing of the two children on the hood, and then the sharp cry of pain from one of the two. I was so fascinated for a moment, that when after I had stopped my vehicle, I just sat in a daze, sweet visions filling my head," O'Rourke wrote.
Beto's response? From a Reuters interview a few days ago, he said:
"There's just this profound value in being able to be apart from the system and look at it critically and have fun while you're doing it," O'Rourke told Reuters. "I think of the Cult of the Dead Cow as a great example of that."
He now says he's "not proud' of his child-killing piece. Still no word on the cow-sex item.
BuzzFeed tries to dismiss the whole thing as youthful indiscretions, with the greater implication that Beto is the new generation of candidates with the computer trail, so all of the candidates to follow, after this pioneer of sorts, should have such a trail, too.
It's true that this looks like hacker stuff, with typically disjointed hacker thinking. I've been around hackers, and a lot of them act like this. But they tend to come off as irrational and disjointed, irresponsible, disorderly, and very contemptuous of law, even as some are pretty brilliant isolated with their mastery of code. Was Beto one of those? Sure sounds like it.
Shortly after Beto produced these screeds, he was busted for hit-and-run drunk driving, a pretty serious offense, and somehow didn't get prosecuted.
In another manifestation of his hacker ethos, the Intercept reports that he got his political start with advocacy of marijuana legalization while he was on the city council of El Paso. El Paso was never a dangerous city (sorry, President Trump!), but Beto decided that it was for his purposes at the time, and since the danger was the drug war, he went out on a limb about a decade ago, before it was trendy, and put marijuana legalization for a vote. "Now he's running for president and it all started with weed," as the Intercept crowed.
Pot-smoking is a hacker thing, so that sounds more like it in the wake of his hacker poetry past. (Does this gibberish from Beto sound like the thinking of a pot-smoker? Well, to some of us it does.) Disguising the matter as a majestic opposition to the drug war, it sounds more like succoring what hackers would like.
So now it's all of a piece as Beto assumes a front-running position for the Democratic Party's next candidate for president. A hacker for the ages. "Born to run," as he puts it.
He's got no ideas of substance, as the Atlantic notes — not surprising, given all the time he spent hacking and writing poetry, riding a skateboard, and singing in a punk rock band with an animal skull on his head.
But he does have two things: the press, which adores him and considers him "modern" or "hip" or "with it," very youthquakey (BuzzFeed), as well as Kennedyesque (see his glossy Vanity Fair cover). The other thing he has is lots and lots of money for his campaign, along with a capacity to raise big money, something he declines to disclose the origin of. Some reports suggest it's the Obama-linked political machines, which may be true. But one wonders if it's really the Silicon Valley barons who are coughing up, and who know they are unpopular with the public.
Is Beto the hacker candidate of the Silicon Valley? Someone's paying for this idiot.
Image credit: Beto O'Rourke via Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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