The Rude Pundit: Call It What It Was: An Assassination Attempt on Mike Pence

[babylonsister]

The Rude Pundit
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6/17/2022
Call It What It Was: An Assassination Attempt on Mike Pence


I have despised Mike Pence longer than most of you, even before he was that fuckin' conservative prick in Congress from 2001-2012, even before he was that motherfucking governor who refused to allow a needle exchange program in a town with a high rate of HIV (until he prayed and partially gave in). Yeah, see, I was damned to live in Indiana in the late-1990s when Pence was a right-wing radio twatmite, advocating for laws against adultery and railing against the cartoon Mulan for daring to say that women could be in the military with men and hating on LGBT people with a fervor that could only be described as protesting way, way too much. When I say, "Fuck him in every hole from ass to eye," I mean it.

So if I say anything that is perceived as a kind word about him, just know that I really think he's lower than worm shit.

That said, yeah, Pence did one good thing with his sad, homophobic, nutzoid Christian life. He stood firm against a wave of spittle and being called a "pussy" and "wimp" from Donald Trump, as well as Trump's caricature of a mob boss threat that "I don't want to be your friend anymore if you don't do this," and ratified the electoral count in the 2020 presidential election. I don't think he did that for honorable reasons. He consulted with, among others, former Vice President Dan Quayle, who told him, "I also know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That’s all you do. You have no power" when Pence sought his blessing in overturning a clean election, which would have thrown the country into dictatorship. Pence had spent the last five years being Trump's most loyal lickspittle, a remora suctioned onto Trump's ass so tightly that he may as well have been Trump's vestigial tail. Pence wasn't strong. Pence certainly wasn't a goddamn hero. He was scared that he'd break the law and end up in prison if it all went sideways. He didn't want to commit a crime. He didn't do the right thing so much as he didn't do the wrong thing. So, fuck it, may as well act like the great defender of the Constitution.

And what did Pence get for his trouble? As his chief of staff Marc Short told the January 6 committee, he was so worried "that the president would lash out in some way" over Pence's disloyalty that Short contacted the head of Pence's Secret Service detail to make sure they were ready in case shit went south. And south it went.

Let's stop beating around the goddamn bush with this shit. The January 6 attack on the Capitol was, among other things, a coordinated assassination attempt on Mike Pence, one that was cheered on, if not directed, by the President of the United States, who really was Donald Trump.

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https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2022/06/call-it-what-it-was-assassination.html

[bucolic_frolic]

1. That's what I make of Pence's behavior post-election 2020

It's not been well-received here on DU, but I think Pence was wary because he was an obstacle, a gatekeeper. It would have been convenient if he went along, or if he were no longer there. So he kept silent. It's not like he couldn't read tea leaves.

[musclecar6]

2. I agree

Completely with the OP. Pence didn't finally ( after 5 years of extrordinarily intense ass kissing) do the right thing, he just didn't do the wrong thing.

[area51]

3. Yet to this day, Pence still loves Trump and won't drop a dime on him.

[musclecar6]

4. Of course

He's trying to pull a houdini act, by not going along with TFFG's plot at the last minute and maybe narrowly missing getting his ass killed for that move and now somehow be declared a hero by enough voters in 2024, to ride into the presidency as he miraculously hold's onto TFFG's base who wanted to string him up. Talk about magical thinking.

[Traildogbob]

5. The fact

That his daughter was there in that basement video and could have
Seen her father get killed or be killed herself, and this coward power hungry “P” word, as trump calls him, says everything about this chicken shit. He will not even show courage and show a little anger at the fact of her being in danger. Happy Father's Day you wimp ass prick. And you think you need to be President and defend the nation. What a freak show he is. And “flies”, if your listening, the pile of feces in ripe for hatching some eggs. Follow your fellow fly’s lead to the white nesting place. Let the MAGAT’s devour his ass from head down to his coward feet.

[LittleGirl]

6. I used to joke about how Pence

Would just swoon behind trump and never wince when he got stupid.

Doing the right thing on January 6th was the least he could do.

I won’t forgive him because I’m a fellow Hoosier that was born in that state.

[Martin Eden]

7. "Pence had spent the last five years being Trump's most loyal lickspittle"

"a remora suctioned onto Trump's ass so tightly that he may as well have been Trump's vestigial tail."

BRAVO!!!

R.P. has a way with words in service to the truth.

[2naSalit]

8. That was priceless!