ROBERT FRANCIS O’ROURKE NEEDS NEW MATERIAL: Beto’s fundraising pitch: ‘Now, we don’t want anything to happen to the kitten …’

He joked that it may take a Facebook livestream event that involves a kitten to meet his fundraising goal but he’s not going anywhere any time soon.

“You know, it’s kind of raising the ante or the bar for how we compete for those dollars,” O’Rourke said. “I mean, I could maybe do a Facebook livestream with a kitten and, say, you know, ‘Now, we don’t want anything to happen to the kitten … and so, you know, send your $5 or $10 or $15 in now. And, you know, Miss Whiskers is going to be fine.’”

To be fair, O’Rourke is a big fan of recycling — including this (in)famous 1973 National Lampoon cover, from the earlier, funnier, pre-PC era of leftism: