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| Bogus Veep Mike Pence actually used a three year old photo to illustrate his planned protest against NFL players exercising their Constitutional rights. Look at the dates below the two Pence tweets. Pence is liar and phony like his boss. |
If you were
unaware of these deaths, or even that there were Americans on the ground
in Niger—where the United States is helping to train government forces to fight
terrorist incursions—that’s understandable.
Because among
the things at the top of Donald Trump’s list of important events, actual
soldiers actually dying … doesn’t count.
Instead, Trump
has focused on athletes leading a peaceful protest against the ongoing killing
of African Americans by police, and the failure of the justice system to hold
these police responsible for their actions.
By portraying a
pose usually reserved for honoring an injured player as a sign of disrespect
toward the flag, the nation, and the military, Trump has created a fresh
racial injustice to heap on top of the original.
In service of
this lie, Trump has now tweeted 29 times concerning these uppity protests,
including multiple tweets about how this dishonors the military. He’s
tweeted zero times about the sacrifice of the Green Berets in Niger.
But apparently
just talking about it wasn’t divisive, hateful, and hypocritical enough.
Over the weekend, Trump ordered Mike Pence to drop in on Indianapolis for the express purpose of making a show of mock disgust over players daring to express concern that their fellow Americans were being murdered with impunity.
Trump didn’t
disguise the fact that the whole thing was planned:
I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLadyKaren.Donald J. Trump 2:16 PM - Oct 8, 2017
It was a stunt
that almost certainly cost the American taxpayers over a million dollars, just
so Trump and Pence could turn up their noses at the concerns of black
Americans. And it was utterly staged from start to finish—the true definition
of the term “fake news.”
The exact
operating cost of Air Force Two aren’t clear, but operating Air Force One costs
over $206,000 an hour.
Pence made two
flights in excess of four hours—not to mention the time the plane spent on the
ground, waiting for him to pop his blindingly white head into the stadium and
out again—so even if the plane transporting the nation’s most insignificant man
runs up the meter half as fast as his boss’s ride, a million was spent just driving
Mikey to the game.
And of course
there were Secret Service costs, along with inconvenience for everyone trying
to either get into the stadium or simply navigate downtown Indianapolis, as
Pence and his entourage cut through the town twice in a matter of minutes.
Pence’s stunt
was so pre-staged, that the picture supposedly showing Pence at the game, was actually taken when Pence was attending a Colts game two years ago
(why he was there at that time wasn’t clear, maybe it was “spit on women’s
rights day”).
Pence even told
the reporters to cool their heels outside the stadium while he dashed inside.
When he came out, he had a nice little speech, and a press release, to express
his completely spontaneous indignity.
Pence might as
well have stayed in Las Vegas, gone into a casino, and emerged to report that
he was shocked, shocked, to find gambling going on this
establishment.
Though, of
course, he could have gone into Trump’s Las Vegas property without running into
such an issue, because Trump’s hotel is practically the only operation in Vegas
bigger than a broom closet that doesn’t have a casino license.
But Pence and
Trump demonstrated once again that they will go to any length to make
things worse in America. No matter what it costs everyone
else.
