The Last Details of Mike Pence

Does this Rainbow make me look Gay?

“We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?”

I can not think of anyone other than Mike Pence who thought Mike Pence should be President.  So, it comes as no surprise that Mike Pence dropped out of the race.

Everyone recalls Pence playacting a tough guy stare across the DMZ with North Korea while wearing his leather jacket.  But, I think the time Pence sheepishly removed a water bottle in front of him because Trump moved his is the epitome of Mike's entire political career.

Pence benefited from the American tradition of elevating any white man above and beyond his ability, skills, or keen.  And make no mistake Pence was no hero when he was put to the test on Jan6th.  Pence yearned to find someone anyone (Why even Dan Quayle would suffice!) to tell him you can do this, you can overthrow the United States government and remain in power and it's nice and legal (or legal-ish as "George" "Santos" would say).  Instead after not using legerdemain to conduct an Autogolpe, Pence has spent the last 2+ years trying to ridiculously navigate the space between approving the Jan6th rioters calling for his hanging and wooing the Trumpublican mob despite their utter abject hatred for him for failing to deliver the goods.

Part of Mike Pence's appeal to voters was his claim he and Trump would have reneged on the deal to withdraw US Troops from Afghanistan and kept forces in the country.  How that would have worked with the Taliban back in political power is anyone's guess but, when you're concocting fantasy scenarios in your head like RINO Mike Pence well there you go.  Of course, part of Pence's Afghanistan bullshit is to reinforce the nonsense about the 2021 withdrawal being a calamitous calamity of such proportion heretofore never seen in the history of the US and world and to downplay the Trump administration's culpability.

Additionally, Pence cosponsored the AUMF for George W(orst Ever) Bush's invasion of Iraq so it's unsurprising he was still in favor of staying in America's longest war just like Liz Cheney, whom some blind liberals actually believed was on the side of the Democrats instead of being the viper who wants to return the Republican Party to the snobbish bigotry and concealed hatred of the Other.

Anyway good bye forever to Mike Pence we now only have to deal with his devious brother in Indiana.

January 6th will be America's Second Independence Day

"We mustn't judge too harshly Will... It was his first time." - Hannibal Lecter

Many things required cleaning up after the January 6th Insurrection; from the broken glass in the Rotunda, to the shit-smeared walls throughout the hallways and offices, to the shattered trust in the peaceful transition of power in the World's foremost Democracy.

But, nothing required more work than for Republicans & Rightwingers to white-wash the video footage and images the American people saw that day with their own eyes.

January 6th was an Inflection Point.  The Republican Party had been steadily descending towards Authoritarianism and the denial of democracy and the repudiation of the Democratic Republic for decades with accelerating features from 2001-2021, but after the initial shock of that day wore off, Republicans fully embraced full-blown Fascism.

A Kill/Capture team of rightwing domestic
terrorists uses the confusion to enter the Capitol
in order to execute Democratic Congress members

 There is no coming back from this for Republicans.  They have decided to Rule or Ruin.  But, to that end they still need to do Revisionist History and catapult the propaganda about January 6th, as they steadily erode confidence in the United States of America and set about conducting their next attempt to Overthrow the Government and replace it with a NeoConfederate style of governance dominated by fundamentalist white supremacy and predicated on the propositions of oppression, intolerance, and adulation of the rich.

To that end; Squeaker Kevin McCarthy gave video surveillance footage to Chief Propagandist Tucker Carlson to do what he does; craft a web of lies and convince conservatives the true villains of January 6th were not that raucous mob of criminals who, it should never be forgotten, did successfully delay the certification of the 2020 election but, those who investigated the crimes and underlying motivations of the Trump White House and Republicans and Rightwing provocateurs who set the events in motion.

Remember except for a few strokes of luck and some individually brave actions, there would have been numerous dead Democratic Congressmen and Senators in the Capitol on that day.  And make no mistake that was the plan by the Trump White House. 

But, while several Republican Senators have tepidly pushed back against Carlson's Revisionist History right now, the arc of history is set.  Arch Traitors in the GOP will never stop pushing lies around the attempted TrumPutsch and Auto-Golpe De'Estado planned and executed by the Trump White House and multiple members of the Republican Party inside and out the Federal Government.  Thus, Republicans & Rightwingers must and will completely support the Spirit of January 6th and the Lies of a Rigged and Stolen 2020 Election while castigating a few individuals as bad apples.  

By the end of the decade Republicans will have convinced themselves and their mob of domestic terrorists that Jan6th stands with July 4th as the Days of Independence.