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Mike Pence is running hard to be the Mitt Romney of 2024, the controlled opposition establishment Republican nominee who will run for president and lose gracefully. Or if he somehow wins, he will do the Left’s bidding, but in a restrained, ostensibly conservative way. The formerly genuine conservative Pence showed that again Saturday at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where speakers usually keep things light. The famously stone-faced former veep may have been incapable of cracking jokes, but he sure went all-in on making his remarks as heavy as possible and signaling that he would happily carry water for the Left, repeating his claim that Trump endangered his life on Jan. 6 — even as the Left’s Jan. 6 narrative is in a full state of collapse.
According to a Sunday report in the New York Post, Pence told the Gridiron Club audience, “President Trump was wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day.” Pence has said this before, and it’s a strange thing for an alleged conservative to say, as it is a prime Leftist talking point. Trump criticized Pence for lacking “courage,” and Pence has repeatedly claimed that this put his life in danger. Yet Trump did not call for any violence against Pence. The Left has adopted as a consistent strategy the contention that any criticism of Leftists is tantamount to violence and results in their being inundated with death threats from right-wing yahoos.
Of course, this never works in the other direction: Leftist criticism of patriots is never violence and never results in threats. For Pence to say that Trump’s criticism endangered him is to parrot a Leftist talking point that is designed to shut down all criticism of the Left. It’s irresponsible and short-sighted for Pence to aid and abet the destruction of the freedom of speech.
Pence even went on to say, “And I know that history will hold Donald Trump accountable.” Did Mike Pence read Das Kapital over the winter and become a true believer? It’s likewise a core Leftist talking point that history is trending in an inevitable and discernible direction, and that they’re on the right side of it. That’s why they call themselves “progressives.”
It’s unlikely that Mike Pence has actually become a Leftist, but he is certainly talking like one of their useful idiots. This is especially true in light of the fact that he went on to say, “But it was there, in that small office just off the Senate chamber, there was a small television set, and we watched what was unfolding outside — the mayhem and the rioting. You could hear it echoing outside and soon thereafter in the hallways.” This was just feeding the Jan. 6 mythology of a mob of violent, crazed MAGA protestors, stirred into a frenzy by Trump, storming the Capitol.
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Kepha says
Friends of mine were at the Washington Monument and noted Trump’s call for a “peaceful and patriotic protest”. Some of the networks (if not the legacy ones) picked it up as well. Now, we see the “insurrectionists” marching along the path and failing to transgress the ropes. They looked like a bunch of more mature scouts who needed no adult supervision. Then there was Mr. Buffalo Horns being shown around by the police.
I don’t believe that I can believe anything that CNN, MSNBC, NYSLimes, or WASHcomPOST publishes again. If they tell me that 2+5=7, I will check by counting on my fingers or an abacus. If they tell me Jesus Christ was born of Mary in Bethlehem in the days of Augustus Caesar, I’ll check not only KJV and ASV, but also the Chinese Union, Lutherbibel, Version Synodal, the UBS Greek New Testament, and Delitzch’s Hebrew translation as well!
At least Naomi WOlf has apologized. https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/dear-conservatives-i-am-sorry
Walter Sieruk says
On FOX News had interviewed a woman who is an American patriot women and was outside at the rally for a free and honest national election said that she saw a number of Capital police smiling and even waving the other patriots in the Federal Capital building.
She said that she had a gut feeling and it was a set up. That woman turned out to be right.
It was, indeed, a set up a despicable schemed leftist set up. In other words, it was a dirty double cross.
It was a planned entrapment of a very insidious loathsome lawless low sort.
It was an unconscionable arranged and sinisterly designed disingenuous unfair affront to all genuine justice law and order.
The ancient Roman statesman lawyer scholar and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero had very wisely wrote that “Law is built on justice; where there’s no justice there’s no law.”
Walter Sieruk says
To add to my above comment, The smiling Capitol police officers who were smiling waving the patriots into the Federal building for that schemed set up.
Those insincere ,left -wing politically correct police are like the kind of characters in the song written and played on the radio in the early 1970’s which is entitled “Smiling faces.
Some of the lyrics to that song are “Don’t let them fool you, a smile is just a frown turned upside down- smiling faces tell lies.”
somehistory says
Humans have trouble admitting to being wrong. It’s difficult to admit to an error…in words, in judgment, recalling facts, etc, when speaking with just one other person in private.
Make a big booboo in public, insist that one is right, correct, no mistake, etc. and then discover that the insistence on being right was totally wrong, just how is that imperfect human going to admit to anyone, that a mistake was made?
It takes a big person, a person who recognizes their own imperfection, and is humble and honest enough to admit to an error…esp to a large audience.
If pence is sticking with the lies, that shows whether or not he is a “big person,” humble, or an honest one.
Hoi Polloi says
Too bad Pence, AOC, et al. don’t actually feel all this fear they claim and go hide out in holes somewhere waiting for the sky to fall.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
He should run: Murdoch, Ryan, Alex Marlow, et al can all vote for him