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In this era of deep crisis and division in America, Mike Pence wants to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States in 2024, and he wants you to know that a Pence presidency (The Pencidency, you heard it here first) would be a comforting reassertion of the Republican Party’s familiar role as the placid, country-clubbing controlled opposition, never rocking the boat as the Left sets the agenda politically, economically, culturally, and in every other way.
If you want solid, stolid, poker-faced, self-righteous impotence and me-tooism, Mike Pence is your man. Solid, stolid Pence reinforced that perception Wednesday when he called out Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) for being so un-conservative as to do something actually to resist the Left and stop it in its tracks. Good, solid, colorless Men of the Right such as Mike Pence just don’t do such things.
Pence began by defending DeSantis’ Parental Rights in Education bill, which endeavors to stop the grooming of children in primary schools. The former vice president declared that he “fully supported Florida’s initiative to protect kids and protect parental rights.” He even offered an example of why such a bill was needed: “I was just in Iowa last week where literally there’s a school — the Linn-Mar Community School — [that] will allow a student to get a gender transition plan without parental notification or approval.” That’s ghastly indeed, and it’s good to see Pence speaking out against it. But don’t take that to mean that once The Pencidency was up and running Gray Mike would do anything actually effective.
Pence went on to hit DeSantis for going too far: “I have concerns about the follow-on. Disney stepped into the fray; they lost. The idea of going after their taxing authority. That was beyond the scope of what I as a conservative, a limited government Republican, would be prepared to do.” Of course. As everyone knows, being a conservative, limited government Republican means being a dutiful lapdog for the Left. It never, ever means taking on Leftist power centers such as Disney that are corrupting children on an industrial scale with woke propaganda. Oh, no. That would be Big Government Liberalism.
Pence is now the second Republican presidential hopeful to invoke conservatism in order to justify impotence and inaction in the face of the Left’s increasingly open lust to corrupt our children. On Sunday, former Maryland governor Larry Hogan, who also shares Pence’s fantasies about being the GOP nominee for president in 2024, also brought up his alleged conservative credentials to explain his opposition to DeSantis.
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Hoi Polloi says
The media keeps pushing X vs DeSantis and Pence is stepping up with promises to betray everything and everyone he claims to value. All while, as ever, claiming his alone is the bright, shining path.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
DeSantis has said nothing so far to suggest he is in the running for the job: it’s a media creation by the likes of Fox, Breitbart and others in the Right who now want to drop Trump thinking that his endorsement doesn’t carry weight where it’s really needed – Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona
Instead, the Murdochs, Alex Marlowe, John Nolte and other doubting Thomases should just endorse Mike Pence: it’s at least a credible endorsement. They can give him credit for all the achievements of the Trump Administration, which would be fair since he was the VP on the team, and they can enjoy the fact that he comes from the same school of thinking as Paul Ryan. Or they can throw their lot behind Nikki Haley or anyone else who throws their hat in the ring
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Those ‘conservatives’ who want someone other than Trump – the Murdochs, the Breitbart people, et al should go ahead and endorse Pence, if they haven’t gone for Haley already. That way, GOP voters can have a clean choice while voting: they can vote for Trump if they liked his presidency, and if they didn’t, they can vote for Pence. Ron DeSantis being in the ring would just split the America-First vote, since there are Trump supporters who’d split for DeSantis for shallow reasons, who wouldn’t otherwise break for Pence, Haley or anyone else
All that said, I’m less than impressed by Trump’s attacks on DeSantis, particularly one that he did some days ago alleging that DeSantis did something improper in college. For the guy who had to apologize for the first time ever due to the ‘pu$$y-grabbing’ comment on the Access Hollywood tape, it was someone in a very fragile glass house tossing a stone thru the ceiling. He should just ignore all talk of DeSantis running unless and until the latter announces. Ideally, I’d like Trump to be the president in 2025 and DeSantis in 2029 and 2033. By then, we should have fixed the damage done these 4 years
Hoi Polloi says
Agreed. As things stand, I would vote for DT to strike a blow against the open and extreme election corruption used to install Biden. As to DT vs DeSantis, Trump should have well before now learned to hold his tongue regarding DeSantis, as it’s the only success the media has had in the whole of this game and it’s all been a DT own goal.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yeah, and this is the only time that any barbs he’s unleashed on anyone failed to have any effect – even at his rallies. He should just leave DeSantis alone unless and until the latter announces any run for president. Incidentally, I don’t think DeSantis owes him or anyone else any statement about his intentions at all: on that one, I disagree w/ Seb Gorka, who I otherwise rarely disagree w/
Hoi Polloi says
+1
dazzleme says
+1 Agreed!
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Ron DeSantis can deflect the Disney criticism by offering the same deals that Disney had to other Media giants – Universal, Six Flags, Knottsberry Farm… as well as Conservative entrepreneurs who want to set up something similar for families who’ve chosen to boycott the woke experience of the corporate Left
That said, there is nothing ‘conservative’ about allowing private companies to set up their own autonomous civic authorities, exempt of state taxes. That’s in sharp contrast to any government telling private companies which online viewpoints to censor and which ones to allow: am glad that GOP congresspeople are giving the likes of Roth, Baker and Gadde the third degree. Hope they also haul in Wojcicki and Zuckerberg in future as well
Hoi Polloi says
I agree, but I’d love to see DeSantis make a stronger case using numbers, as I hear leftists pushing the msnbc line about FL costing itself $$$ over Disney. I hope he soon makes a more up-to-date, forceful case, ha, if only for me.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Florida has actually saved Disney by simply remaining open: Disney would have gone completely out of business had it only had Disneyland and no Disneyworld. People have been making a beeline for Florida from all sorts of blue states – NY, IL, New England states and to a lesser extent, West coast states. Property rates in Florida are through the roof thanks to all that immigration of sane, normal Americans
Florida is simply making it clear to Disney that there is a price tag on virtue-signalling to the Left: it’s not that they can say anything about conservatives and the latter will do nothing b’cos… free market. That’s where Pence, Paul Ryan and a whole bunch of establishment ‘conservatives’ miss the point
Hoi Polloi says
All true and there’s no price acceptable for toleration of so many of these horrors, anyway. They should be stopped without regard to the price.
somehistory says
When I was getting things together to teach my kids at home, I read some stuff from a lawyer, an advocate for homeschooling, who cited the Constitution as giving parents the legal right to teach their children without government interference.
I used that fact with the school district, and afterward, they left me alone to teach my children…as was my right.
It seems that the “big government” people have totally forgotten what the Constitution says and guarantees to citizens.
Gov. DeSantis has not said he wants to be president. What he has said is that he wants to protect the citizens of Florida from those who would strip them of their rights, and to protect the kids from the so-called ‘woke’ stupidity., invading the territory belonging to the parents who are the ones with the responsibility and legal rights to make decisions for their children….even in education that comes from public schools.
The old deal with Disney was not in the interests of the people of Florida. It was for the benefit of the company. Taking the authority back in order to check the power of the “big business” doesn’t make the government of Florida anything like what the federal government has become.
And many citizens of Florida don’t want Mr. DeSantis to leave his seat of government while he can still be governor.
Hoi Polloi says
Agreed. I think we need to return our government to its original role, assigned and limited.
Thanks for developing homeschoolers’ path, as that not only benefited your own children and others on that path, it was a driver in the many options now available in school systems. It’s rather interesting to me that people still dismiss that path despite the matter of its well-established superior results.
somehistory says
Thank you, HP.
My x mother-in law was a school teacher and she tried to make trouble for me with the school district…having truant officers sent to my house.
My response to that was to call the state superintendent of schools and found that homeschool was not against the law.
I met with the guy who was over the local school, and he was the first to tell me, “Why don’t you just teach them at home,” because I wanted changes made to the school my kids attended.
I found out later that the principal of that particular school was arrested on sexual abuse of children.
My kids all graduated; and all attended and got degrees from universities. One in nursing, one in mortgage finance, one in criminal justice and one in law, who went on to become a licensed attorney.
I believe any parent who can teach their kids to walk, talk, feed and dress themselves and who wants to teach other things, should not be afraid to do so. The kids will prosper more than they ever could in public school. And it doesn’t hurt the parenst, either.
somehistory says
My typos are not a reflection of my education, but of my poor eyesight and the fact that this computer tries to think for me. It continually selects words and letters I don’t want. 🙁
Hoi Polloi says
No worries. Mine autocorrects to some pretty ridiculous stuff, and often repeatedly. If I don’t check and change it repeatedly, it goes out that way. Service and connectivity issues are also problematic where we live. I’ve been humbled regarding my own messages when links I inserted somehow didn’t go, etc.
Congratulations on your fine family. How’s the grandbaby?
somehistory says
Thank you, HP.
It can be frustrating to see so many errors after posting.
thank you also for congrats. The newest baby turned a year old the last day of last year. She has a large vocabulary already and it’s so easy to teach her to say new words. she has learned a lot from her older sister. Wishing I could share some of the five-year-old’s artwork here.
I feel very blessed.
GreekEmpress says
Congratulations!
And many blessings! From
Your Greek sister on the border-
somehistory says
Thank you very much, GE. I hope things are going well with you there in the danger zone, that you remain safe.
Hoi Polloi says
I’m happy you’re so blessed.
somehistory says
Thank you, HP. 🙂 I appreciate that.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Somehistory
How did you pick which subjects to teach your kids? Or was it everything, or did you drop some subjects by the wayside b’cos they’re never likely to need it? I hear that argument, but often wonder how practical it is for people who may be great in a subject or more, but not in all
somehistory says
Infidel,
My kids were all different ages when I found I could teach them and not be hounded by truant officers With my son, who was the youngest, I began with reading and math when he was about four years old. Since we had several Bibles, and nearly every word one could need is in it, I taught him to read using that and by five, he could read anything.
He loved things having to do with science, so I found that subject easy., He wanted a calculator early on, so we got him one and that made math…which he hated…easier.
My oldest had been in public school, so with her, I just looked at what subjects she had not been through and any she was not doing well, keeping to what the law said was necessary.
My second oldest was way ahead of her class, and we focused on math subjects; she actually taught herself trig with a book I got her from a local book sale…it had the answers in the back, just like teachers in public school have. So I could check her work; and from the library, we went through her remaining history subjects. She was proficient in the other subjects, and graduated at fifteen.
In Texas, one has to study a certain state history course and in Florida, one has to know Florida civics; which is a history course. So they had to learn what the state required.
My youngest daughter had severe dyslexia, so we worked hard on learning, how to read, as well as writing in ways to overcome her difficulties in those areas. It was a challenge, but she had been the one I was fighting for in the beginning as the school system refused to try to help her, but demanded that she keep up with the class.
Most of the books I used came from the library…which had some amazing books at that time…better than school books, imo.
From there, they each chose the university courses they wanted to take.
By law, I had to have an outside company keep records of attendance, courses studied, and the grades they made. I had a friend who had such a school and she took care of those things and issued each ones diploma when they were finished.
Because of my own family history, I had not finished high school and while my youngest two were about done, I “enrolled” with the friend’s school and finished the few necessary courses so she could give me a test, and issue me a diploma. I paid her a small sum for each one, including me for her trouble and for the papers she had to have. Her husband had a publishing company and he printed out the records sent to me.
there are businesses that supply materials…for a fee…to those teaching their kids, but I didn’t have the money to engage them; and found I didn’t need them anyway.
One of the reasons by older daughters wanted to leave public school was due to the sexual violence and filthy language bombarding them daily.
I imagine it’s really a whole lot worse now
I hope I’ve answered your questions. Thanks for asking.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thanks for your answer, Somehistory
Hoi Polloi says
A family I know had a child being targeted at school. During the pandemic, homeschooling turned everything around and test results soared. Another had a highly dyslexic child and told me the Orton-Gillingham method worked very well.
somehistory says
When I was raising my daughter, there wasn’t a lot of info available on dyslexia; no internet to search. I sometimes would get magazines, such as Good Housekeeping, and one of the things I read was about the disorder.
It was a good description, but it didn’t really tell how to help one suffering. There were lists though of famous people who had it and that gave me encouragement. I dx’d her problem myself.
I tried to get the school to help, but they denied she had a problem and that’s when I had to do something to help her.
It took lot of work, patience, and she got tired of me pushing her…gentle pushing…but she went from not able to read more than a few words, to reading anything she wants to.
when we first began, she didn’t want to try, she ‘hated’ reading; but it only took a little while and she was checking out fiction books at the library. She loves to read.
The “pandemic” in some ways was a cloud with a silver lining as some parents learned they could do a better job with their kids than they had gotten at public schools.
It also exposed the evil of teacher’s unions which had been hidden from the public.
somehistory says
I looked up and quickly saw, that the method uses science with reading. It’s funny. My daughter has a very green thumb, loves to grow flowers, and when I was teaching her to read, a lot of what we went over was based on her love of plants.
she learned about ‘hot beds’ and ‘cold frames’ and other stuff that has helped her with her garden.
A lot of teaching ones’ children is just knowing their interests and making the most of that knowledge to make learning fun.
Hoi Polloi says
+1
somehistory says
How does pence feel about this/
“Washington Examiner
Do you speak Spanish? You are now ‘transphobic'”
“The absurdity of gender ideology leads to incredible claims from pockets of establishment media. Now, according to one left-wing professor, the entire Spanish-speaking world is to be condemned as “transphobic.””
Kepha says
LMAO–I have learned a bit of Spanish in the past few years. I often have to remind my students that I don’t teach them bad words in English; they shouldn’t teach me bad words in Spanish.
But, it is really quite amusing to tell some Che Guevara T-shirt wearing yob, “Ah, yes; anyone for whom m—-con is the worst thing you can call a man can’t be all bad…”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Kepha
The cuss words are the first things I try to know in any language, but that’s just me 😈
But I’m generally horrible at languages. Learned some German in college, but forgot it since. When my kid was a toddler, used to watch ‘Dora the Explorer’ w/ him and picked up a few worrds like ‘vomonos’ and ‘abre’ and ‘muy buen’, but that was about it
somehistory says
One time in Texas, my kids and I were getting ready to go, and a woman came running up, shouting at us in Spanish. She was yelling, and wouldn’t leave…kind of scary.
I had learned a few sentences, a few words, but didn’t always remember what they meant, so I told her “vomonos,” and was surprised when she jumped into the back of my truck.
I had thought I was telling her to go. (A Spanish speaking friend told me later what I had said, and laughed a lot when she said it)
She wouldn’t get out, and kept yelling at us, gesturing, and saying what sounded like “wendy’s”….she said that over and over, so I thought that taking her to Wendy’s would be the way to deal with the situation.
All the way down the street, I could see her in my rear view, yelling, gesturing, jumping up and down. When we go to the restaurant and stopped, she wouldn’t get out.
Finally, we were able to figure out she wanted to go to the laundromat that was just down the street from where she had gotten in my truck.
We laughed at that a long time, and I was careful never to use my Spanish again unless I was sure of the meaning.
somehistory says
I’ve been thinking…and that can be dangerous…about this whole phobia thingy.
First of all, phobia is an irrational fear of something, according to the experts in the field of mental health. It is not a crime to have a phobia, and the doctors who treat people with any particular phobia can be helpful to overcoming it, but they don’t condemn the patient.
fear of danger can be a healthy protection. Such as fear of snakes, spiders, high places, etc. It’s when the fear inhibits normal living that it is unhealthy to the patient.
As most everyone knows, those who engage in homosexuality, wanted to be *tolerated, then accepted, then approved, then liked, then copied, etc. One of the first things they did was to *coin* a word, or *con* it and decided that people who disapproved, disliked, etc. homosexuality, had a “phobia” and named it after the word that, in Latin, means “man.”
So, they made up that anyone who was against their “lifestyle” was a hom phobe…having an irrational fear of *man.*…but in a sexual way.
Along comes the ois, and wanting the same things as the homosexual, “acceptance, approval, and even comying by becoming a mozlum,” coined…or conned the word islam o phobia.
Question: where did they get the “o”? Is there an islamo?
We all need to remember that having a phobia is not a crime; and that there is such a thing as a healthy fear of those things that can, and may, harm us.
Now we have “transphobic”…a person who denies that there is such a thing as a transgender person.
Where will it all end?
I say the rest of us normal people, coin normalphobia, or reasonphobia, because the other stuff is not normal and not based on reason; and they are afraid of us. Their fear translates to hate.
somehistory says
corrections. homo phobe and oic, not ois.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So people who are against ‘transphobia’ are at some level, by their own definitions in wokedom today, ‘ableist’: total lack of empathy for people w/ the mental phobia
࿗Infidel࿘ says
So people who are against ‘transphobia’ are at some level, by their own definitions in wokedom today, ‘ableist’: total lack of empathy for people w/ the mental phobia
Patriotliz says
The BRAVE Republican who can save America is the one who acknowledges the Communist Cultural Revolution taking place in America and combats it head on. Republicans are only capable of referring to the threat with the nonsense, silly word of “Woke” with a variety of suffixes. So far, Trump is the only person who has mentioned Leftists as “Communists” although he doesn’t do it routinely.
Even Robert Spencer won’t say that word for fear of a “McCarthyism” label backlash.
The battle for America is Good vs. Evil; Christianity vs. Satan; Freedom vs. FascistCommunism.
dazzleme says
Pence is.a weeney!