U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is a fucking asshole — for more than one reason.
Most Americans who aren’t also assholes have known about Mike Pence for while. He thinks you can “cure” gay people with therapy — as if being gay is a condition in need of a remedy. He thinks gayness can be “prayed away,” but this is old news. Mike Pence is a theocratic douche who wants to marry government with church and govern like it’s 1999…B.C.
The media rightly criticizes him over these horrible political ideas.
But there’s something Mike Pence just did that makes him an asshole of international proportions — and it’s earned him the praise of the Washington Post, which literally called him a “superhero” for it. So what did Pence do that has gained him favor from the “liberal” media? He’s been trying to start a war with North Korea.
That’s right: Mike Pence went to the Winter Olympics in South Korea with the stated intention of foiling the peace process between the two Koreas. Or as WaPo put it:
“Pence had transformed himself into something of an anti-propaganda warrior — a mild-mannered, if resolute, superhero who arrived in South Korea on the eve of the Winter Games to single-handedly rebuff North Korea’s public relations efforts.”
So what did he do exactly? Well, he condemned North Korean military parades as acts of provocation (while hilariously defending Trump’s plan to have his own American military parade). In Japan, on his way to the Olympics, he touted “the toughest and most aggressive” sanctions yet against North Korea while rallying U.S. troops (still occupying Japan 72 years later) against “the rogue regime in North Korea.”
“We’ll continue to seize every opportunity to ensure that North Korea does not use the powerful imagery and backdrop of the Olympics to paper over an appalling record of human rights and a pattern of developing weapons and conducting the kind of missile launches that are threatening our nation and threatening neighbors across the region,” the Washington Post’s superhero lamented.
But hold up. Let me breakdown the complete idiocy of that statement.
— Pence doesn’t want North Korea hijacking a sporting event to spread pro-government propaganda, which is a fair criticism. However, this is the same douchebag that walked out of an NFL football game over players kneeling during the national anthem, which apparently disrupted the American brand of pro-government propaganda Mike Pence favors.
— He slams North Korea over its human rights record, which is also fair. However, the United States has the largest prison population in the world and employs prison labor. Our institutionally racist, militarized police have been killing over 1,000 people a year since accurate record-keeping of the deaths was initiated. The U.S. also operates a prison called Guantanamo Bay where suspected terrorists are regularly tortured, and Homan Square, the “black site” where Americans are ‘disappeared‘ into and tortured, is still operating in Chicago. These are the same violations of freedom the U.S. accuses North Korea of committing. Ironic to say the least.
— Sure, North Korea’s “rocket man” has been developing missiles and nuclear technology, but are they really “threatening our nation and threatening neighbors across the region,” as Pence claims? Hardly. North Korea launches unarmed rockets into the fucking ocean. Maybe Kim Jong-un has killed a few fish. Wow! America, as we recently reported, has up to 1,000 military bases in 80 different countries. North Korea doesn’t have any military bases outside of its borders. The United States is currently bombing at least seven nations and is conducting covert military operations from the Congo to the Philippines. North Korea shoots blanks into the ocean. The U.S. fires live munitions into civilian population centers. The U.S.-led war against Iraq is responsible for at least one million dead Iraqis. North Korea’s unarmed missile campaign against the Pacific Ocean is responsible for maybe five dead sardines — and that’s being generous.
All this comes amid the backdrop of North and South Korea finally on the verge of mending ties and making peace on the peninsula, a wonderful development for the prospects of world peace and stability in the region. The Koreas have formed a joint Olympic team that marched together during the opening ceremony (for which Mike Pence disrespectfully refused to stand). Kim Jong-un invited South Korean President Moon Jae-in — who campaigned on restoring peace with the North — to Pyongyang for an official state visit, a clear sign of improving ties. And talk of reunifying the Koreas is spreading.
Peace may finally break out on the Korean Peninsula if this asshole Mike Pence can just get the fuck out of the way. Perhaps Pence would do better looking into the mirror than sticking his nose into the business of sovereign nations on the other side of the world that have not attacked the United States. And to the Washington Post, I’ve got some breaking news: Being a warmonger is not the stuff “superheroes” are made of, dumbasses.
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It's hard to find the good guys anymore
Nah. The good guys are being killed by the bad guys. Just look wherever bad guys are shooting at people (and that's how you can tell they're bad guys), and you'll find lots of good guys trying to keep their families safe.
You won't see them in the enemedia, because the enemedia is the bad guys. You can tell the enemedia is the bad guys, because they call the bad guys shooting at people good guys. If you are having trouble spotting the good guys, it's because you're trying to see them in the bullshit the enemedia is posting.
Look with different eyes.
What gave that away? His ignorant upbringing or the nonsense he spouts off about so proudly. Dumbfounded by politics these days. I’ve talked to homeless people with more intelligent and political minds than this guy. Smh either way nice blogpost . Stuff like this gets me going though @antimedia
The childish tantrum of Pence lays bare the attitude of the US. It's an image that is hard to spin.
Improving relations and eventually reunification of the Korean Peninsula. A dream of the Korean people. A nightmare scenario for the US
As an American, I completely refute what you just said. I am thrilled to see Korea working towards peace, and despise every politician and what they do to stop it.
The USG is not America. The USG is the tool of oppressors trying to take our freedom away, too. No one probably hates torture, war, and the banksters more than me, and the Americans I live next door to, work for, and with.
It is good to remember that whatever country you live in, they are probably allies of America in one way or another. Does that mean your people support war, torture, and the banksters?
It probably doesn't. I don't, and I'm an American.
No one else I know does either.
We're slaves.
Fair correction. I did not draw a distinction between the US regime and everyday US citizens.
My government are US allies, and even worse the majority of people here do support war, torture and the banksters. They queue up to watch the latest US military scripted violent Hollywood howlers, cheer on imaginary heroes, and have their opinions handed to them by the still dominant mainstream media.
We have a reputation of being a country of "dumb, drunk and racist" people, and I'm embarrassed to confirm that this is true. We have been slower to wake up than folks over there, which is something a decade ago I could never have imagined.
So thanks for passionately refuting my comment. It gives me hope. It's also encouraging to see more and more people in the US turning off the mainstream media and signing on to alt media. Perhaps there are growing "signs of life", the slaves are starting to realize their strength and number and beginning a revolt ?
I just live surrounded by poor people, who've all had the marrow sucked from their bones by gumming in one way or another.
I think that's why I like them.
I think that the hypocritical media that pretends to hate him are the Fcking A$hole's....They have a lot more power in reaching peoples hearts and minds, and they love to push this crap DAILY. Pimps for the government douche bags.
I ignore Pence with all my might. Perhaps if everyone did, he'd go away.
Call it what it is: slavery.
There are more slaves in America today then there ever has been . Most of them are in prison. That doesn't mean they're not slaves.
America is the home of the slave (and land of the fee), now more than ever.
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STOPHave any of you visited this peaceful country lately? Do you want to know what they do to treasonous defectors in their country?
There's no question Pence is an establishment brick.
I think he could have been hand picked to replace the Donald, as planned by TPTB, so that their agenda could proceed as planned once he is out of their way. Time will tell.
Thank you for your very informative and insightful post.
Politicians are nothing more than sales men/women. They do not work for the american people. They work for the corporations that put them in those positions. Their job is to divide and distract us so the people who are really running the country/planet can continue to get away with all the illegal and immoral shit that they do.
Peace is not lucrative for the country that has chosen the military as its main export.