This should cheer Ron DeSantis up just a bit. He’s not the only one who’s going broke. Mike Pence is not only not swamping the primary field right now, being carried around on the shoulders of his fellow GOPers, he’s having to scramble for the minimum in cash support that’s required to even step onto a debate stage. What is drop dead hilarious about that, is that Chris Christie, who anticipated such problems, is doing just fine with his level of support. He will be able to debate the others. Christie has nothing to worry about. Democratic pocketbooks will open wide to get him up on that stage whereas the same pocketbooks will snap shut like alligators’ jaws if Pence asks for a nickel.
Yes, Christie cleared the preliminary hurdle of 40,000 donors with nary a problem, and weeks ago. Here is Pence trying to do the same.
He’s now resorted to begging for $1 donations just to qualify for the debates. I know God told him he would be president someday, it’s just not gonna be anytime soon. pic.twitter.com/1nqxpUdB0c
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 25, 2023
Umm….Mike? Hate to be the one to tell you, but the only way you’ll get on that stage is if the Democrats decide there’s sufficient comedic value in having you up there and I think the chances of that are slim to none. You’re not an amusing guy. Chris Christie is the breakout star of this election season, the dark horse, as it were, because he’s there to stick it to Donald Trump — who’s cowering in Bedminster and making excuses about why he doesn’t need to debate.
And let me break something else to you, Mike. That voice you hear whispering from the shadows, when you vaguely hear the rustling of leather wings, that’s not God. We’re been trying to tell you that for years.
We’ve also been trying to tell you for years that you have no constituency. MAGAs hate you. They’ve booed you. They think you betrayed Trump — and in a manner of speaking you did just that, because you wouldn’t join his criminal enterprise. The old school Republicans aren’t in your corner. The young Republicans looking to remake the party, like Olivia Troye and Miles Taylor, don’t want you. Troye worked for you and she said you were “weak.” That’s putting it mildly. I would have said cowardly.
Go write another Marlon Bundo book. That was the only spark of originality you ever displayed. Maybe that’s your true calling.
None of these loons are hearing “God.” They’re like the character in The Ruling Class, where the protagonist tells his shrink that he knows he is the divine creator because, “When I pray, I find that I am talking to myself.”
This fusion of politics and religion into the Cult of Trump is a sickening development. And the Evangelicals aren’t running to support Pence, either, you might have noticed.
Give it up, Mike.
No Mikey, that voice you (and so many like you) hear ain’t god. On the contrary. It’s something very different but your delusions of grandeur twist what you “hear” into something very, very different than the “voice of god.” How different? Well, I recall an old (very old) Richard Pryor routine where he was giving a eulogy and it ended like this:
Don’t listen to voices in your head. And stay out of dark alleyways!
“ mama said there be days like this, there’d be days like this my mama said.” I wonder if
“Mother” is that empathetic? My husband told me a joke the other day… What’s the difference between atheists and evangelicals?
Atheists don’t pretend to believe in Jesus.
I’m a lifelong fan of the golden rule myself. A spiritual hypocratic oath perhaps.
pence didn’t write Marlon bundo his wife and daughter did. he doesn’t have the creative mind to do anything.
By the sounds of it Pence couldn’t even attract 40 pieces of biblical silver. Enough said.