# 'Joe the Plumber' has died

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 28, 2023, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234 "2023-08-28T17:03:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234/21 "2023-08-29T00:12:34Z")

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The Clintons have amassed an impressive list of people associated with them who have “died” amid “circumstances” deemed nefarious.

Is this the first person on the Obama kill list?

(Pancreatic cancer, Schancreatic cancer. As if people get terminal illnesses in their 40s…)

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234/22 "2023-08-29T00:15:30Z")

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In an open letter to the parents of kids killed in a shooting, Wizzelbacher wrote, “As harsh as this sounds—your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights … We still have the Right to Bear Arms … Any feelings you have toward my rights being taken away from me, lose those.”

Since this is not the Pit, let me just say I’m glad his days of writing open letters to grieving parents are over.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234/23 "2023-08-29T01:52:11Z")

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Yeah, he was good at that.

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234/24 "2023-08-29T04:14:56Z")

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I forgot about him because his 15 minutes of fame was a lot of minutes ago.

I can’t hold a grudge that long, especially for as little as he did. I agree with others that hope he didn’t suffer too much as he passed. He wasn’t a monster, though he certainly was deserving of scorn in the day.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234/25 "2023-08-29T14:04:30Z")

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Just another GOPster.  
Moving on.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234/26 "2023-09-17T08:05:02Z")

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> [@carnivorousplant](#):
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> Thanks, Elmer\_J.Fudd.

Only one note: use an @ when you say that kind of thing.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234/27 "2023-09-17T09:02:28Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> ([Explanation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare_Brush) for those who didn’t waste their childhood watching cartoons.)

_Wasted_???!!!

Pistols at dawn, sirrah!

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-the-plumber-has-died/989234/28 "2023-09-17T17:04:50Z")

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(Psssst) Brickbats at 50 yards.

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