Mike Pompeo calls the head of the teachers’ union the “most dangerous person in the world.”, worse than Kim and Xi.
…of course, because she’s not enough of a fucking god-girl.
Mike Pompeo is another one of those Republicans who seem normal (WTF that means nowadays) on the surface, but scratch just the tiniest layer of normie superficiality plating and you find the horrifying mass of Teh God Crazee seething underneath. He’s in the same mold as Pence, Huckabee and Flynn.
They’re all about let God take care of everything, except if you don’t think exactly the way I do, you should be killed! Preferably with a lot of attendant suffering. These are the same people who have brought us, “The USA was founded as a Christian nation!”
Unlike Trump and DeSantis (equally dangerous, in my view), they really believe this stuff. The front runners only pretend in an effort to co-opt the God Vote. These two know who the true God is: Themselves.
Mike Pompeo still has presidential aspirations, so he has to keep his name in the headlines as much as possible. He has very little else to do at the moment, as his current position is a ‘distinguished fellow’ at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think-tank.
He does have presidential aspirations. I can’t tell you how happy it makes me every time I see how far down he is in the polls as a potential nominee for that job. But after Trump, I take nothing for granted.
Pompeo has been Koch-backed in every aspect of his career, from aircraft to venture capitalism to politics. It was my House district that first sent him to Congress in the 2010 election. I want to issue a public apology for that action.
No need to apologize. But that’s interesting information. Thanks for sharing it.
I already knew he is corrupt as fuck due to his taxpayer-paid “Madison dinners” that he held during his tenure as Secretary of State, which were all about furthering his political career.
His time as SoS was spent trying to dismantle that institution. It really hurt Biden when he needed to spin up the value of diplomacy again.
Pompeo is a total piece of self-absorbed, self-dealing shit.
Whenever I see a picture of Pompeo, I hear Ren Hoëk’s voice in my head: “You fat, bloated sack of protoplasm!”
LOL!! Now that’s what I’m going to hear, too!
Should Pompeo fail to toe the OrangAnus line, he’ll get an new nickname from the schoolyard bully. Pompoplasm perhaps?
Pompeo and circumstance
This reminds of a scene from Woody Allen’s movie “Sleeper”. He goes to the hospital for an ulcer and wakes up hundreds of years later in a dystopian nightmare. One of the scientists who revives him tells him there had been a war. “According to history over a hundred years ago a man named Albert Shanker got a hold of a nuclear warhead.”
Shanker was the head of the United Federation of Teachers.
The Republicans should get some new boogie men. Sleeper was made in the early 70s.
Pompeo had an opportunity to run for Senator from Kansas in 2020, and he would have (IMO) easily won the GOP primary and then the general. But he wanted to stay in the Trump administration (assuming, of course, that Trump would be re-elected), and then he would have had a clear path to the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.
Kansas, of course, elected another dipshit as Senator, Roger Marshall.
^ Exactly right.
Pompeo is also being practical here in trying to demonize the head of the American Federation of Teachers: he (and other Republicans) were very impressed by the way Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governorship—largely by making public schools and the Horrible People who work in them the Evil of All Evils. They all see this as the road to electoral success, now.
(And of course attacking the head of a UNION (gasp) is always in fashion in GOP circles.)
Jenna Ellis says the Club Q victims are in Hell.
Odd, theres no evidence that shes a christian.
Clearly not, given the Bible explicitly says it’s God and God alone that decides who does and who does not get into Heaven.
Just saw an image of a tweet from some Richard Hanania who posted a text image of a bit about preparations for a recent wedding (dancing practice, venue comments) with the comment “Biden’s grandaughter is three years older than her husband. This is the America that they want.”
Yeah, whatever, dude.
…what does that even mean?
That’s gotta be a joke, right? Hell, George Washington was nearly a year younger than his wife, and nearly 15% of modern US marriages are between younger men and older women.
It’s hard to believe that even Stupid Republicans could be so frantically fearful about this completely unremarkable phenomenon that they wouldn’t just laugh at the idiot trying to whip up outrage over it.