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The Yin and Yang and YEETing of Mike Pence
Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, we can stop paying any attention whatsoever to the Indiana Charisma Machine, Mike Pence.
We won’t have Mike Pence to kick around anymore, declared Mike Pence on October 28th in the Year of Our Lord 2023 regarding his 2024 electoral prospects. Lord willing and the creek don’t rise, we can stop paying any attention whatsoever to the Indiana Charisma Machine.
Folks I like and respect have asked why I’m so hard on Mike Pence, the politician. In all fairness to the former vice president, you don’t find anyone who says Michael Richard Pence — the man — isn’t polite, professional, and a nice guy in person. Bully for him; I wish him and his family nothing but well in their future private endeavors.
The issue with Mike Pence isn’t the carefully coiffed conservative comments that always present as manicured as the chiseled side part in his silver-gray hair. It is that his actions have laid bare the untenable contradictions of Mike Pence’s actions and life since Trump named him as running mate on July 15th, 2016. Since that moment Mike Pence the narrative, Mike Pence the man, and Mike Pence the political animal have all diverged, rarely to overlap since, until finally running out of inertia, attention, & money…
