Mike Pence Makes My Head Hurt
The Houston Chronicle (of all places!) has a kinda cool thing this morning called, “The Most Outrageous Things Mike Pence Has Said …”
There’s 15 of them and I’m sure you’ll find a favorite. Mine? Thank you for asking.
“Republicans, from George Washington to George W. Bush just have better ideas.”
Yes, like the idea that George Washington was a Republican or that George Bush ever had a good idea.
And, since I haven’t found an excuse to use this picture I’m just gonna leave it right here.
Yes, I can make him laugh.
Yes, he is tall enough to go quail hunting with a net.
Yes, Bubba told me to wipe the drool off my chin and that I was embarrassing myself.
Beautiful photograph!
Y’all thought those No TPP posters were protest posters against a potential trade agreement. Au Contraire. Think of them as saying no to the Trump/Pence/Putin ticket. “Putin on the Ritz” a dark Broadway musical comedy choreographed by Donnie Drumpf.
1PKM—I think you have a hit there.
2You ought to give Pence a whole lot of credit in not claiming Jesus as a Republican.
3So glad you’re at the convention. What a delightful photo…..didn’t know CB was so tall! Couldn’t help but notice that Democratic delegates cry while listening to the speakers talk about our values, etc. I know I did. Repub delegates, I don’t know, I didn’t watch. My guess is that their values aren’t discussed out loud except for anti-abortion values. Hard to say: don’t let Dems or blacks or browns vote…..we need more gerrymandering, if you get sick just pass the hat to raise money, etc. It could move them to cry I guess.
4The other thing I noticed was that Reproduction Rights got folks on their feet….men as well, and that Cecile Richards was sitting next to Bill C. I love her!! Wasn’t so long ago that was fearsome to bring up. For myself, I loved the Bernie delegates, that’s what a democratic convention should be…I still remember the old conventions where you didn’t know who would be the nominee…..very exciting.
A liberal at Disney made Mulan to encourage young girls to join the military? That’s a stretch, although I don’t doubt cartoons affect young minds. Take for example the Acme Corporation in The Roadrunner cartoon. Donald Trump no doubt used it as an example in his never ending quest to sell shoddy merchandise, steak, wine, education, to the unsuspecting coyote consumers of America, one faulty, defective product after another.
5I think my favorite is the one about smoking not being bad for you, because 2/3 of smokers don’t die of smoking related conditions. So 1/3 is acceptable?
Okie-dokie, Mike, you enjoy that Big Tobacco money, now.
6I couldn’t find a favorite among Pence’ quotes. I did however find a statement by the author of the article that just thrilled the cockles of my heart:
“Mike Pence has mostly avoided the public spotlight since being named Trump’s running mate.”
Makes me wish he had been picked sooner. Maybe it could be arranged that he be the perennial GOP veep candidate? If it would keep him quiet, that could be a win for all of us.
Hey! Let’s have LOTS of veep candidates! Joni Ernst springs to mind. So does Ted Cruz, Sharon Angle, Jeff Sessions – the list goes on. And on.
And Palin if it would shut her up. Nah, that won’t happen. Never mind.
7sybil: I think it’s fair to say that many of us probably also cried when listening to the “Legitimate”-Rape-Public-CONs bluster about their “values” at their hootenany last week. Just cried for different reasons. I guess we’re a sentimental bunch sometimes.
– I bought a Venus Fly Trap today. I was going to name it ‘Republican’, but the fly trap is beneficial to the environment. I’ll save that name – someday I might find a plant that eats poor people, women and minorities.
8(As seen on the web in a sig-line collection; I’d love to properly credit it if anyone knows who said it first).
Annabelle Lee, that was how I saw it too. One-third of tobacco smokers die? Not a very encouraging statistic.
9…die from smoking, that is. My aunt did, and it’s an awful way to go.
10What a great pic of 3 great Democrats!
11Loved the words of not-a-republican, George Washington:
“…Political parties may become the engines by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be able to subvert the power of the people…” Sound like anyone running for president?
Juanita. That picture is a keeper. Three stalwarts of the faith.
12Loved your picture!!! Cory is a rising star…….last night was a hopeful, beautiful convention……may it continue!
13Might have known you’re buddies with Cory. You are a giant of the internet printed word. His speech last night proved what a giant of the spoken word he is. Great convention so far. Great speeches. Makes me glad & proud to be a Demo again!
14@PKM. Love the “Putin on the Ritz”, pun. Got anything for “Springtime for Hitler?”
15Myrnatoo, Donnie is more of a “Winter in the Gulag” kind of guy. He and his sons Quday and Usay Drumpf really don’t rise to the level of either Hitler or Putin. They’re more Cheneyesque; especial the boys with that ‘big man’ hunting of caged animals. Nothing says “sport” like long range rifles with scopes.
Some referred to his nomination speech style as Nixonish. Although even at the height of his paranoia Nixon was a better person than Donnie. Maybe “ish” best describes Donnie. Ish as in a less refined form of ick.
😀 If she wasn’t a United States Senator, I’d hack Senator Warren’s twitter account. Donnie seems to do a better twitch dance to her jibes. He looks like he’s on the receiving end of a dog’s shock collar, when she zaps him.
16Great pic. And CB is totally adorable. Understand the drooling 🙂
17Favorite awful quote…couldn’t pick just one. As the daughter of a working mom (because otherwise we woudn’t have survived) I know the lack of emotional development is ridiculous because I have plenty of emotions, although those directed at Pence are a range of negative from disgust to revulsion to exasperation to rage. As a veteran, and thus one of the dreaded women in the military, mostly it’s the rage that comes out, because you [long redacted phrase] slimeball, there’ve been women in the US military since before you were born, saving lives on the battlefield (I grew up knowing Army nurses who’d served in the South Pacific), helping crack the Enigma machine, flying airplanes, and it wouldn’t been harder, with more loss of life, if women hadn’t done that work. (Shut your [redacted] pie-hole, Pence, before I take out my officer’s sword and make you swallow it along with your filthy insinuations about women in the military. You never risked your lily white butt in the military, not one day. And see, we’ll be here all day if I let myself think too long about his views on abortion and burying fetal tissue and LGBT people…and everything else.
18I love Cory Booker, I wish he was VP.
19OMG … I love that picture and I LOVE Cory Booker! You’re just a short little tomato, JJ. LOL
I didn’t read the Pence thing … I’ve had about all of their idiocy I can handle!!
20I guess Mike Pence never heard of Joan of Arc.
21Mike Pence is Trump’s insurance against being assassinated. Of course, if Trump won, the GOP might impeach and convict him just to get Pence into office.
22Am I being paranoid?
s it possible to be too paranoid?
Elizabeth Moon:
The more I hang here and read your words, the more in awe I have become of your writing and you as a person. You have revealed parts of your personal history that I find inspiring. As I sit here watching the D-Con on CNN, it occurs to me that a woman of your experience, intellect and talent should be one of those up on that stage speaking your heart out. I am certain I would watch and applaud.
Thank you for your words and thoughts.
23“You ought to give Pence a whole lot of credit in not claiming Jesus as a Republican.”
true, but they (the GOP) claim MLK as a republican, though it’s a historical fact that he was a registered Democrat. never let facts get in the way of making yourself look like an idiot in public.
ok, that list was just, um,……….. wow. does he have a writer come up with those doozies, or does he claim to have created them in the echo chamber, masquerading as a brain, between his ears? hey, people (well, ok, two or three) want to know, dammit!
24just a thought but why is it that republican vps are just plain boors? Pence is an average rethug hater. Nothing special. Low IQ, unable to learn or read especially history. Oh wait! He’s supposed to make herr Drumpf look smart. Oh well, yet another failure.
25Now you see what we’ve been suffering through.
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