"Christ has called me" -- Former Secretary of State Pompeo suspends political activities and events r

[douglas9]

WASHINGTON (APR) — Former U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has suspended a recent tour of speaking engagements and is preparing for a church missionary assignment overseas sources close the former Trump administration cabinet member have confirmed.

Pompeo (57), a self-proclaimed evangelical Christian originally from Santa Anna California, who served as a conservative congressman from Wichita Kansas, was appointed by President Donald Trump as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in January of 2017, and later replaced dismissed oil tycoon Rex Tillerson as head of the US Department of State in April of 2018.

"Christ has called me, and I will follow" one source familiar with the matter said about the motivation for this new missionary initiative Pompeo is said to be planning to formally announce later this month along with several evangelical leaders and former Trump officials whom he has been meeting with over the last several weeks.

Pompeo, along with other former members of the Trump cabinet such as Betsy DeVos, Rick Perry, Jeff Sessions, Ben Carson, and others including Vice President Mike Pence, were in the “White House Bible Study Group” led by former NBA basketball player Ralph Drollinger.

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[calguy]

1. In other words...

Pompeo knows he has no political future after kissing trump's ass.

[Tommymac]

62. I see it as the QOP tightening the bonding with their Christofascist Base.

It's a political move.

The Theocracy is still in play.

[yellowcanine]

78. The internal polls must have sucked.

[Aristus]

2. Anxious to get out of the country, eh Dude?

Headed somewhere that doesn't have an extradition treaty, maybe?

[roamer65]

27. Christ has called him to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

[peppertree]

80. They currently have a progressive administration though

OTOH, Bolsonaro in neighboring Brazil would welcome him - though Bumbeo would have to get used to all that humid heat and Afro-Brazilians (probably not his favorite things).

[-misanthroptimist]

49. That was my first thought, too.

Some shit going down somewhere, and Mr. P doesn't want any part of it.

Maybe.

[Lucinda]

55. +1

[hlthe2b]

3. Uggh Huh... So, when does he start his mega grift, --er eh-- church

[Caliman73]

20. That is exactly what I thought.

This guy has a scheme to make money exploiting some developing nation somewhere.

[Hortensis]

34. Money's never been Pompeo's big thing, which a quick glance at his estimated

net worth makes outstandingly obvious. By DC standards, the man's a pauper.

[Scrivener7]

4. "Missionary assignment overseas" in a country with no extradition, I bet.

[milestogo]

30. ...

[malaise]

5. A senior member of the

Let us PREY movement

[Tommymac]

63. Oops You did it again!

[malaise]

71. LOL

[nolabear]

6. "Cheese it, the cops!"

[Hugin]

7. I guess polling as less favorable than...

a half-eaten pudding cup found in a rest area latrine and herpes can do that to someone.

Maybe Christ cares.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

8. My guess: the former guy wants to run in 24, so he brought up the Kompromat

that the Russians have on Pompeo to make him back down from his potential candidacy.

[MineralMan]

9. Running away from it, he is.

Fleeing the interview...

[winstars]

18. I see what ya did there. Fargo, excellent!!!

[superpatriotman]

10. The 'best' people

Dominionist Christo-fascists, the lot of 'em

[tblue37]

11. I can guess what Christ would call him.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

12. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! How conveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenient!

[Arazi]

13. More probably "Merrick Garland called me"

[onethatcares]

14. he can take the rest of that group n/t

n/t

[MineralMan]

15. Bringing Jebus to the Russians, perhaps?

[NurseJackie]

16. He's delusional.

[Blue_true]

67. Awwww, you're being too kind. nt

[gratuitous]

17. Left out a couple of words there, Mike

"Christ has called me a schmuck."

Of all the reviews of his time in office during the former guy's administration, I'll go out on a limb here and say that "Christian" is not an adjective that will describe his policies or work.

[Mr. Ected]

19. Praying that Pompeo will call Christ

With his one phone call from jail.

[flibbitygiblets]

21. I wonder what Christ called him.

Probably not something good.

[Deminpenn]

32. Moneychanger

nt

[sarcasmo]

22. I've found a better grift.

[blueinredohio]

23. Would that be Putin calling from Russia?

[tanyev]

24. Might have just been a butt dial.

[dlk]

25. Could Pompeo's sudden missionary calling possibly be connected to the Gaetz scandal?

For someone as ambitious as Pompeo, the timing of this abrupt change in career course seems odd.

[Blue_true]

68. Yes it does. nt

[dlk]

74. We may know soon enough-guys like Greenberg and Gaetz usually spill when they're caught

Pompeo has always been especially abhorrent.

[dalton99a]

26. Ok, go jump off a cliff, asshole

[Solly Mack]

28. Yeah, OK. Sounds legit. LMAO

Wonder what he is running from? Up to really? The angle?

Because, Christ? Yeah, I don't think so.

[StatWoman]

29. This isn't an April Fool's joke, is it? (NT)

[spinbaby]

42. My first thought

Or from the Onion.

[StatWoman]

61. That apparently makes only two of us.

But if you look at the original, the authors are highly suspect.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

31. ...to stop doing The Devil's work

[Paladin]

33. It's those photos that Matt Gaetz has. (nt)

[lisa58]

35. This is going to be fun to watch...

My guess: It’s either going to be MF45 was sent by god - or - I was wrong for supporting MF45. Just waiting to see which way the wind blows and using his ‘calling’ as an excuse. Leaving the country is also an interesting ‘protection plan’

[RANDYWILDMAN]

36. Christ called him to repent for his sins !

He is so dirty...

[HAB911]

37. Call him home Jesus!

[Takket]

38. wow the straw polls must have been UGLY. good riddence!!!!!!!

[FreepFryer]

39. To a country without an extradition treaty. (Nt)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

40. Well bye

[ZonkerHarris]

41. I wonder which non-extraditable country God told him to go to?

[BootinUp]

43. This guy acts like he's in a Monty python skit.

Unintentionally, maybe.

[Dave Starsky]

44. "Mr. Pompeo, there's a Joshua Ben Joseph for you on Line 1"

"DAMMIT! I'm sorry, guys. I gotta take this call."

[IA8IT]

45. Kochs can't buy you out of the mess you're in??? BUH BYE

[empedocles]

46. The ghost of Nixon's C. Colson beckons

[regnaD kciN]

47. So, he's taking on a missionary position...?

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

48. CIA will be watching and listening 24/7. nt

[Vinca]

50. Oh, jeez. Don't tell me he's somehow involved in the latest sex scandal.

I doubt "Christ" has much to do with it unless Pompeo muttered "Oh, Christ, what have I gotten myself into?"

[demtenjeep]

51. BULLSHIThe is getting the f out of the country. I have had interaction with pompous mike

he is a hateful arrogant asshole

[electric_blue68]

56. Oh, how did that happen?

[demtenjeep]

58. when he was first running for congress in KShe marched in every 4th of July parades. Eureka a town

of less than 3000


he was marching in it handing out crap and came up to me and my family. We were all standing together, there are or were quite a lot of us. He started handing out shit and came to me and I was wearing a shirt that said "I only sleep with Democrats" and he acted like I was invisible.

When he wouldn't even engage, my family gave him back his shit and he high tailed out of our area.

[electric_blue68]

60. That was unpleasent, woah!

[48656c6c6f20]

52. Ahh. I was hoping Christ had called him home.

But it still breathes and wastes oxygen alas.

[spanone]

53. Hey mike, what did he call you?

[milestogo]

54. A fucking hypocrite, I'll bet.

[Hekate]

57. As long as Christ calls them to get the aitch out of US politics, I am very happy for them

[Hotler]

59. Onward Christian solders. he's a dominionist.... so is Billy Barr, listen to his speeches

Dominionism, or Christian Dominionism is a term coined by social scientists and popularized by journalists to refer to a subset of American Christianity that is conservative, politically active, and believes that Christians should, and eventually will, take control of the government.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Christian-dominionism.html

[jalan48]

64. I had no idea Charles Koch was Christ.

[Withywindle]

65. If Christ called him to STFU and go away

and he actually did it, I'd be impressed. Not holding my breath.

[Blue_true]

66. The women that he touched will finally get their day. He sees that

coming, so he wants to inoculate by jumping feet first onto the missionary (not the sexual position) holy-roller wagon.

[Goodheart]

69. In other words

the big money is in exploiting dumbshit evangelicals, not in politics nor in speaking engagments wherein he would defend trump.

[helpisontheway]

70. Shit..more like the devil called his lying @ss..nt

[Celerity]

72. An aside: FUCK Ralph Drollinger, with a chainsaw

Drollinger is a conservative evangelical Christian who describes his belief that there should indeed be an "institutional" separation of Church and State, but that the Church should still "influence" the State.

He has also asked President Trump to use his presidency to turn the American government into a "benevolent dictatorship."

Drollinger is also on record as being anti-LGBTQ, anti-women's rights, anti-immigration (he supports family separation at the border), a climate change denier, and declaring Catholicism as "one of the primary false religions of the world."

In March 2020, Drollinger generated controversy when he linked the coronavirus with God's wrath and homosexuality.

[mahina]

73. More likely the other one

Again

[Demsrule86]

75. What do you bet 'Christ' calls him to a country that does not have extradition.

[smirkymonkey]

76. He bravely ran away, away, brave, brave Sir Michael!

[NewJeffCT]

77. Is he going overseas to a non-extradition country?

Just curous...

[dawg]

79. Sec. Pompeo, Christ has called you ...

to love your neighbor as yourself; to feed the hungry and clothe the naked; to welcome the stranger in your midst; to forgive the sinner and to focus instead on your own shortcomings.

That, Secretary Pompeo, is what Christ has called you to do. (And if you don't believe me, I think it's even written down somewhere.)

[FSogol]

81. "Christ has called me" - Former Secretary of State Pompeo completely revamps his grifting activities

Fixed it for you.