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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPence got his feelers hurt because NFL players took a knee in front of his eyeholes. UPDATE!
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@VP
I left today's Colts game because @POTUS and I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem.
UPDATE! BLOTUS steals the credit!
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@realDonaldTrump
I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLady Karen.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)Holier-Than-Thou asshole
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)He's an arrogant fuck, too.
Initech
(100,079 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,441 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)donated his seats to a family unable to afford the price of tickets.
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,114 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)walked out to pretend faux outrage phot op. If anyone has disrespected the soldiers, flag and national anthem it would be this administration's complete disregard for the safety, health and welfare of the average citizen of this country. He is as phony a pious bastard that ever walked the earth with the possible exception of his boss and that would end up a tie.
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)His hometown team, that he is allegedly a fan of, did not. He walked out on them, too. Hopefully, most will see it for the stunt that it is.
TEB
(12,856 posts)But you have no problem accepting help from the Kremlin
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)demmiblue
(36,860 posts)Afromania
(2,768 posts)Every single action, reaction, tweet, word and utterance from him and moronic running mate are an exercise in disrespect for this country. He don't give a flying fig shit about the troops. He's going to probably sit his ass by and let idiot boy send them off into a war zone they didn't have to go into. He's throwing serious disrespect every single time he runs his flunky ass down to Washington to cast a vote for something that's going to negatively affect the very soldiers he claims so much respect for.
Every single one of them makes this country smaller in the eyes of 7.5 billion humans. So roughly about 98-99% of the world and 15 billion eyes think you are full of shit and a walking talking kettle of hypocrisy disrespect. He can go straight to hell and take idiot boy with him.
Further more, and the main point really. I love how he is pandering to the false narrative and that sicko ass base of people who REFUSE to do anything but spin in circles, fingers in ear, screaming "neeener-neener I can't hear you" in response to the protests.
spanone
(135,841 posts)spanone: 'i will not dignify any administration that puts their bullshit over the constitution'
VOX
(22,976 posts)It takes John Wayne-caliber guts to walk out of a football game, then tweet about it. JFK would have made you one of his Profiles in Courage. Take the rest of the day off, youve earned it. Whew!
Mikey, count your lucky stars you werent veep in the 60s, youd have worn out the fainting couch.
nolabear
(41,984 posts)This smacks of dog whistle opportunism.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)And keep the deflection and the divide going.
Particularly odious after yet another unarmed black man was shot dead in UT running away from police, and there will yet again be no consequences for the killer.
demmiblue
(36,860 posts)I'm sure he will have words for that fella.
The whole thing is so incredibly staged.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)"Buh-bye."
demmiblue
(36,860 posts)FFS!
demmiblue
(36,860 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Another whiny little man-baby! And they dare to call US snowflakes?