The cockles of my heart are so warmed by the fact that Mike and Mother Pence are having lunch with a gay couple, that i may just roast marshmallows. Ain’t it grand how warm and inclusive the Pences are? They’re actually going to sit at the same table and eat food with a gay man and his husband — a union which they have both gone on record disavowing the legality of, declaring it to be contrary to the ways of Gawd.
In what has been described as the most desperate and self-serving tweet of this administration to date (and that’s saying a lot) Pence’s token gay deputy press secretary made the announcement of this momentous occasion, the Pences having lunch with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and spouse, the takeaway being that Mike Pence is not anti-gay, because he’s actually willing to sit down with them at the same table and share a meal. Sort of like if the biggest jock in the high school, known for openly favoring the KKK, deigned to eat lunch with the new black kid, to show that he wasn’t a racist. Same difference.
To be clear: they expect us to be happy that Pence didn't cancel a meeting with the Prime Minister of Ireland because of the Prime Minister's sexuality. https://t.co/92K6bPl4yP
— Pé Resists (@4everNeverTrump) September 3, 2019
LOL. He's so not anti-gay he's willing to meet with a foreign head of government when to do otherwise would create a major international incident. This is tantamount to dancing on a float in a Pride parade. https://t.co/TfC9lsxbLf
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 3, 2019
For those who do not live in Hollywood, let me explain that having lunch with someone does not prove you don't hate them. https://t.co/SwVDzv2xy5
— Joel Stein (@thejoelstein) September 3, 2019
I hope these two gay men that Mike Pence is deigning to break bread with appreciate the fact that Pence is willing to eat with them rather than try to electrocute them out of being gay. One small step for gay rights, one gigantic step for Mike Pence.
Thank you, Ursula.
Isn’t this hysterical? Even Trump has said that Pence “wants to hang all the gays.” But noooooo, forget about that. Mike Pence will do lunch. Thank you, Mike, you’re such a mensch. The deputy press secretary should have kept his mouth SHUT.
Ursula,
This is why I am very conflicted about impeachment!
Let me say, though, that I am 110 % FOR a take-no-prisoners type of investigation, which seems that no one in congress is interested in.
We don’t want Pence in the White House, that’s for damn sure. But on the bright side, he would only be a place holder and not be able to win on this own. I believe, in any event.
Ursula,
True. I feel like we’ve been boxed in with no good choices.
Pence probably has a taser in his pocket, just in case.
HAHA! It could be worse. It could be a lesbian couple, who would want to meet him after dark for dinner, and then he’d have to have Mother along, for sure.
Ooh! Poor Pence! I am sure he is terrified! Will he make it through lunch?
That scenario, Ursula, has some interesting possibilities for Mother…just saying.
Some of my best friends are black…….
What a guy.
Or the woman I worked with, married to a black man (from Africa), but still prejudiced about people darker than most white people.
You know, I hear tell that, back in the pre-civil rights era, a lot of racist white folks would actually have *gasp*Colored*gasp* folks working for them–even in their own homes! Now, most of the rank-and-file Klansmen wouldn’t (mainly ’cause the majority of them were poor white trash and couldn’t afford to pay any outsider to come in and do housework) but many of the more affluent Klansmen did and they would feel so bad if they discovered that one of their cross-burning targets would be an employee’s home that they would make up an excuse to NOT go cross-burning that night.
How much you wanna bet Pence would find some way of cancelling that dinner if “Mother” weren’t tagging along? I’ve got a feeling that Pence will keep as much distance between himself and his hosts as he can while still being in the same room; obviously, it’s not quite the same thing as his “fear” of being alone with a woman as that’s from a weird religious belief that no straight man can possibly be alone with an unrelated woman without there being some “sexual tension” (very much akin to that despised Islam!) but most straight men feel (quite wrongly, in fact) that if they’re alone with a gay man (let alone two or more) that they’ll be turned into some kind of sex toy (obviously, this feeling doesn’t apply to straight men who actually know and/or are friends with gay men but I’d be willing to bet that Pence doesn’t have any gay male friends–or acquaintances–in his circle, unless they’re deep in the closet and/or self-loathing).
“…obviously, it’s not quite the same thing as his “fear” of being alone with a woman…”
He is pretty irresistible…..in his dreams.
Why are so many evangelicals so terrified of their bodies?
They’re terrified of *females* and *female bodies*. They also seem to assume that teh gayz want to do to them what they want to do to women.
It’s not that Pence now tolerates gays. It’s that, unlike his boss, he knows better than to piss off the Irish.
I can picture in my head Pence doing “Monk” imitations during this little lunch. For those who don’t know the reference, Monk is the title character of a TV show of the same name – a brilliant (genius intellect) former SFD detective afflicted with just about every phobia in the book. One of his many repeated behaviors is using a sanitary wipe every time he shakes hands with someone, and a running gag is when it isn’t handed to him immediately by his ever present assistant Monk starts saying with steadily rising voice wipe, Wipe WIPE!
I’m sure Pence will feel like he’s covered in (gay) cooties by the end of lunch. I think we should take up a collection to fill a swimming pool with chlorine bleach for him to soak in…