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sabra

(30,404 posts)
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 03:27 AM Jan 2021

Inhofe: "I've never seen Mike Pence as angry as he was today"

Source: Tulsa World

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“I’ve known Mike Pence forever,” Inhofe said Tuesday night. “I’ve never seen Pence as angry as he was today.

“I had a long conversation with him,” said Inhofe. “He said, ‘After all the things I’ve done for (Trump).’”

Aside from Wednesday’s attempted takeover of the Capitol, the past few days have been difficult for Inhofe because he refused to go along with protesting the Electoral College results.

“We’ve had calls. We’ve had threats. … I have many very, very close friends mad at me, when all I’m doing is upholding my oath,” Inhofe said

Read more: https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/inhofe-ive-never-seen-mike-pence-as-angry-as-he-was-today/article_439af4ae-5082-11eb-96b1-53cf9e218598.html

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Inhofe: "I've never seen Mike Pence as angry as he was today" (Original Post) sabra Jan 2021 OP
The problem with Inhofe's traitorous friends C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #1
Pence would have to be unimaginably apathetic in order to NOT be PISSED AS SHIT mr_lebowski Jan 2021 #2
Well said! NanceGreggs Jan 2021 #4
He sure does ... it took him long enough. CatMor Jan 2021 #5
Well when you want to run in 2024 You have to at least look the part StClone Jan 2021 #21
b/c he was concerned and clutching his pearls.... nt mitch96 Jan 2021 #34
"He's literally put Pence's life in danger" keithbvadu2 Jan 2021 #7
Literally and deliberately. colorado_ufo Jan 2021 #16
So....... magats chanted "hang Mike pence". That's too bad. Now watch this drive. ResistantAmerican17 Jan 2021 #26
Schadenfreude wolfie001 Jan 2021 #46
Woman shot breaking into Pelosi offices corridor was there to arrest her and Pence Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #51
They planned on taking hostages zip ties handcuffs keithbvadu2 Jan 2021 #56
Thanks. I had seen that in passing during the hectic phase and lost it. Note his pepper spray Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #58
He's spent YEARS watching the leopard eat everyone's faces and laugh about it. Grokenstein Jan 2021 #13
+100000 Pachamama Jan 2021 #23
This! happy feet Jan 2021 #41
Nailed it perfectly! KPN Jan 2021 #61
Its not like he didn't know, or could have imagined, that trump would do something like that Escurumbele Jan 2021 #35
Pence and Melania might have had a moment of realization at some point, but they are still there nt wiggs Jan 2021 #44
☆☆☆☆ JohnnyRingo Jan 2021 #59
Pence and Congress need to remove Turd, simply as an act of self-preservation. lagomorph777 Jan 2021 #64
"Needy Amin" -good one! thats as good as "twitler." nt Kashkakat v.2.0 Jan 2021 #71
So Republicans are now all talking to the press after deafening silence? live love laugh Jan 2021 #3
Just looking out for themselves - again. Aussie105 Jan 2021 #9
I've seen Mike Pence... Mike Nelson Jan 2021 #6
You are 100% correct Escurumbele Jan 2021 #37
Pence must have thought there was no room under the bus... Make7 Jan 2021 #8
Now that he's 'stood up' to pmurT, will he finally take the next step and stand up to Mother? GoneOffShore Jan 2021 #10
Maybe Traildogbob Jan 2021 #11
And then he moves in with Lindsey. GoneOffShore Jan 2021 #12
You owe me a keyboard!!! Bwaaahaa! yankeepants Jan 2021 #14
Which kind would you like? GoneOffShore Jan 2021 #18
I have thought about that, what a great scenario that would be Escurumbele Jan 2021 #39
"After all the things I've done for him." AngryOldDem Jan 2021 #15
+1000 chia Jan 2021 #24
scorpion and frog lapfog_1 Jan 2021 #17
He could easily have been killed today. They all could. Dave Starsky Jan 2021 #19
Some house members are flat out deranged quakerboy Jan 2021 #20
There was a photo of one of the invaders carrying a handful of heavy duty zip ties bucolic_frolic Jan 2021 #32
I read that someone said that there is no way that without an insider the mob would have found Escurumbele Jan 2021 #40
Aw poor baby intrepidity Jan 2021 #22
Aw shucks Mike....my heart bleeds for you!! Bengus81 Jan 2021 #25
Biggest and most pathetic dupe ever BeyondGeography Jan 2021 #27
So what? hatrack Jan 2021 #28
Ye reap what ye sow. The GOP welcomed all those angry sinkingfeeling Jan 2021 #29
Boo Hoo, Pence democrank Jan 2021 #30
Inhofe and Pence Askov_Finlyson Jan 2021 #31
Butt kissers usually do get mad when they finally find out that EnterwebsJohn Jan 2021 #33
I witnessed his cold anger when the Senate resumed. apnu Jan 2021 #36
Yes he did. Kaleva Jan 2021 #45
Pence has spent his last 4 years enabling Chump FakeNoose Jan 2021 #57
I can't speak to the man's mind. apnu Jan 2021 #63
After all Pence has done for Trump? lonely bird Jan 2021 #38
If the GOP won't expell members who incite violence and terrorism, IronLionZion Jan 2021 #42
A true Chtistian would not have been part of it. nt Hotler Jan 2021 #43
For once, I'd like to believe something Inhofe is saying. Paladin Jan 2021 #47
I have not one iota of sympathy for these enablers! denvine Jan 2021 #48
Fuck Inhofe. SamKnause Jan 2021 #49
"After all the things I've done for (Trump)." jayfish Jan 2021 #50
Talk to Mike Cohen about that. kskiska Jan 2021 #53
I bet he had mamma hold him all night. nt yaesu Jan 2021 #52
Hey stupid. Didn't your mama ever teach you that if you lay with the dogs, you get flees. IsItJustMe Jan 2021 #54
He was angered by 45's *PERSONAL* disloyalty, not his acts of treason. eppur_se_muova Jan 2021 #55
Pence almost did the right thing as the Trump "p*ssy grabbing tape" NCjack Jan 2021 #60
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2021 #67
here's a pict of the angry sentient houseplant... Javaman Jan 2021 #62
And here's a pict of Pence thinking about a really funny father joke, approved by Mother of course LiberalLovinLug Jan 2021 #65
here's a pict of pence dancing at his kids wedding... Javaman Jan 2021 #66
As a former Hoosier who lived under a Pence Governorship AwakeAtLast Jan 2021 #68
Ahhhh...poor Mikey. Give Mommy's boy a glass of milk and send him to bed! Yeehah Jan 2021 #69
Dense can do something about it by rounding up the votes Hassler Jan 2021 #70

C_U_L8R

(45,014 posts)
1. The problem with Inhofe's traitorous friends
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 03:33 AM
Jan 2021

They believe running the country is a zero-sum game. I only win when you lose.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. Pence would have to be unimaginably apathetic in order to NOT be PISSED AS SHIT
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 03:40 AM
Jan 2021

Not making excuses for him, but he HAS groveled at IQ45's feet for 4 years, supported and defended him at every possible turn.

He HAS to have felt emasculated as these 4 years have gone along.

I'd bet he thought the one thing he could count on was that Tangeranus would have his back when the chips were down, as he always did for shithead. Clearly he has minimal experience with sociopaths like Needy Amin.

Instead, Trump sicced his goons on the building he was in FFS, and called him coward in a tweet, and implied HE is the reason Trump is losing his job. He's literally put Pence's life in danger, and not just today either.

Anyways, he HAS to be fucking pissed.

StClone

(11,686 posts)
21. Well when you want to run in 2024 You have to at least look the part
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 06:44 AM
Jan 2021

Even if you were a gimp for the Trump Shitshow of Treason.

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,032 posts)
51. Woman shot breaking into Pelosi offices corridor was there to arrest her and Pence
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:08 AM
Jan 2021

This is what happens when you whip people into a frenzy based on a false narrative and carefully propagandized factoids.



Bernardo de La Paz

(49,032 posts)
58. Thanks. I had seen that in passing during the hectic phase and lost it. Note his pepper spray
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:43 AM
Jan 2021

Note his pepper spray, tactical gear, and using cellphone as a bodycam. There is probably a record of his stream on the internet somewhere.

Grokenstein

(5,727 posts)
13. He's spent YEARS watching the leopard eat everyone's faces and laugh about it.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 05:40 AM
Jan 2021

If he's shocked that the leopard finally ate his face, Pence is an even bigger boob than I imagined.

happy feet

(871 posts)
41. This!
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:35 AM
Jan 2021

No sympathy from here---you reap what you sow - 4 years of supporting a traitorous president when it was to your advantage....not in support of upholding the constitution and the citizenry of the U.S.

Escurumbele

(3,401 posts)
35. Its not like he didn't know, or could have imagined, that trump would do something like that
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:28 AM
Jan 2021

Anyone who claims ignorance that this was going to happen is lying. What no one could have imagined is that there seems to have been some complicity to allow it to happen. The National Guard should have been there on the 5th, the goons should have never been allowed to take, not even one step into the Capitol, they should have been kept behind the barriers.

I am convinced there was complicity there, someone decided to do trump's dirty deed and I hope the truth comes out. It is unacceptable what happened yesterday, but it did not happen without the help of someone, and at this time I think the chief of the capitol police must be investigated, and whomever was warned four days before by Maxine Waters, and others.

Pence may be angry because the buffoon has thrown him under the bus a few times, but I don't think it is because of what happened yesterday, I believe his actions from yesterday are an attempt to redeem himself from the adoration and enabling he has been performing the past four years. Every time I saw him look at the buffoon with adoring eyes my stomach turned, he has shown a lack of dignity and principles just like many other republicans. No, I don't give him a pass.

wiggs

(7,816 posts)
44. Pence and Melania might have had a moment of realization at some point, but they are still there nt
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:18 AM
Jan 2021

JohnnyRingo

(18,638 posts)
59. ☆☆☆☆
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:52 AM
Jan 2021

...and embarrassed.
Sided with the school bully only to have his pants pulled down in front of the whole class.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
64. Pence and Congress need to remove Turd, simply as an act of self-preservation.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 01:28 PM
Jan 2021

I mean physical self-preservation; forget about the optics or the politics. Trump is now a clear and present danger to them all. Mobs don't pay a lot of attention to little details like getting the names right before they shoot.

Aussie105

(5,420 posts)
9. Just looking out for themselves - again.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 05:10 AM
Jan 2021

Thinking of their role, if any, in a Democratic Party dominated political environment after Trump.

But their silence over the last 4 years tells a different story.

Mike Nelson

(9,961 posts)
6. I've seen Mike Pence...
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 04:20 AM
Jan 2021

... he appears to have some degree of intellect. He walks, he reads, he talks... there is no way he hasn't known what Trump was, all along. I have much less access to watching his boss, and it's been very clear.

Escurumbele

(3,401 posts)
37. You are 100% correct
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:30 AM
Jan 2021

If we all knew, he knew, he just decided to look at the buffoon with adoring eyes and go along with all his crap. Pence is as guilty as the buffoon, someone with principles and dignity would have resigned and told the reasons why to the country.

They all deserve to be behind bars...SOBs all of them.

Make7

(8,543 posts)
8. Pence must have thought there was no room under the bus...
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 05:00 AM
Jan 2021

... after seeing Trump throw so many people under there.

GoneOffShore

(17,340 posts)
10. Now that he's 'stood up' to pmurT, will he finally take the next step and stand up to Mother?
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 05:13 AM
Jan 2021

And move in with Lindsey Graham?

Traildogbob

(8,790 posts)
11. Maybe
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 05:33 AM
Jan 2021

Pence will take trumps offer to step down and get pardoned. Then Pence says “Fuck You” and let’s him be drug out after resignation. Mother shouts ‘Hell Fucking Yes Mike”, as Trump is handcuffed and drug by the rat on his head to GITMO for treason.

Escurumbele

(3,401 posts)
39. I have thought about that, what a great scenario that would be
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:32 AM
Jan 2021

To allow the buffoon to think he will get pardoned and then don't do it, let him be indicted for civil and federal crimes. Pence does that and I will forgive him for all the crap he helped do, well not all, that is going to far.

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
15. "After all the things I've done for him."
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 05:52 AM
Jan 2021

Good Christ. THIS is why he’s angry?

Add one more sucker to the pile of people totally conned by Don. But if Pence is making what happened all about him and his hurt feels...

chia

(2,244 posts)
24. +1000
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 07:01 AM
Jan 2021

Never mind about the millions of people affected (and infected) by Trump's malice and negligence. It took Trump's words and actions affecting him personally. Now he knows what millions already know, so now he's angry. Supreme self-interest moved him, but noting else did? I'm so not surprised.

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)
19. He could easily have been killed today. They all could.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 06:02 AM
Jan 2021

I saw the video from the House chamber, and it was fucking terrifying. Mike Pence escaped with his life.

I still can't believe that ANY of those GOP legislators could still support that infernal orange shitsmear after that. He sat back and watched on TV as they fled for their very lives, and there was no way that raving band of maniacs attacking them had the time or inclination to care who they were.

This is what Donald Trump has been all along, Mike. He is the literal God damned Antichrist. I am sorry that it took this long for you to have to start pondering this.

quakerboy

(13,920 posts)
20. Some house members are flat out deranged
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 06:09 AM
Jan 2021

And Hawley is taking a shot at the gold ring and hoping that he can hoover up the trump vote in 4 years.

bucolic_frolic

(43,252 posts)
32. There was a photo of one of the invaders carrying a handful of heavy duty zip ties
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:13 AM
Jan 2021

Leads one to wonder if they were planning a Gretchen Whitmer type hostage operation.

Pence has the backbone of grape jelly.

Escurumbele

(3,401 posts)
40. I read that someone said that there is no way that without an insider the mob would have found
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:35 AM
Jan 2021

one of the rooms, that it is very difficult to get to it, so someone had helped the goons move inside the capitol.

I am convinced this was not spontaneous and that someone allowed it to happen. The treason of these criminals has no bounds.

Bengus81

(6,932 posts)
25. Aw shucks Mike....my heart bleeds for you!!
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 07:40 AM
Jan 2021

Go FUCK yourself. You've been the right hand man to the Fuehrer for FOUR YEARS.

sinkingfeeling

(51,469 posts)
29. Ye reap what ye sow. The GOP welcomed all those angry
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 08:48 AM
Jan 2021

extreme right wingers into their party and then lost control over them. Example is Qanon members if Congress.

 

EnterwebsJohn

(87 posts)
33. Butt kissers usually do get mad when they finally find out that
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:18 AM
Jan 2021

the kissee doesn't even care about the kisser.

Weird that a carreer politician doesn't know this.

apnu

(8,758 posts)
36. I witnessed his cold anger when the Senate resumed.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:29 AM
Jan 2021

It is remarkable that he resumed his duty with any grace. His politics are disgraceful, hurtful, and callously punitive to those he doesn't like, but he did his job as President of the Senate yesterday.

FakeNoose

(32,709 posts)
57. Pence has spent his last 4 years enabling Chump
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:42 AM
Jan 2021

During any time in the last 4 years did he ever consider that Chump has no business being president? Or that Chump needs to be removed from office for the good of the country? Or that it was up to him (Pence) and only him to see that our country and our government needs to be rescued from this madman?

Pence is a coward of the worst sort, he's a complicit coward. So what if he's finally had enough - I don't care. The rest of us finally had "enough" long ago. He gets no admiration from me. None of those Repukes matter now, because none of them (except Mitt Romney) did anything when it really would have mattered.





apnu

(8,758 posts)
63. I can't speak to the man's mind.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 12:51 PM
Jan 2021

It clearly a loathsome and vile place. This is they same guy who thinks he "can pray the gay away."

That he is complicit in all of Trumps evils and sins is not in doubt.

But last night he grimly did his job to ensure the transfer of power. He deserves a modicum of respect for doing that in that moment.

Everything else is fair game, he is a part of this criminal enterprise, but he also did he job to let the people throw his ass out.

This courage of his, this act last night can't even fill a thimble, but its more courage and integrity than Trump has in his whole body.

I wonder, some times, what regrets Pence, Lord of the Flies, has right now.

lonely bird

(1,687 posts)
38. After all Pence has done for Trump?
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:30 AM
Jan 2021

What did Pence think was going on with Trump? How stupid is he? He had his chance, multiple chances in fact, to do the right thing for 4 years and he did nothing. Finding a spine at the last minute is all well and good but let us not pretend that Pence does not have his hands dirty.

IronLionZion

(45,496 posts)
42. If the GOP won't expell members who incite violence and terrorism,
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 09:47 AM
Jan 2021

it's time to disband the Republican party.

Paladin

(28,269 posts)
47. For once, I'd like to believe something Inhofe is saying.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:31 AM
Jan 2021

Still can't do it. He's a lying-ass old Republican, first, last, and always.

Fuck Mike Pence. Let him rot in the bed he made for himself.

denvine

(802 posts)
48. I have not one iota of sympathy for these enablers!
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:46 AM
Jan 2021

They have nurtured and protected this monster and now they have the audacity to act surprised at his monstrous behavior? They should forever be tied to their actions of the last 4 yrs!

SamKnause

(13,108 posts)
49. Fuck Inhofe.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:47 AM
Jan 2021

Fuck Pence.

They are EVIL.

They are unpatriotic.

They are cult members.

Many are members of 2 cults.

They are my enemies.

They are enemies of my country.

IsItJustMe

(7,012 posts)
54. Hey stupid. Didn't your mama ever teach you that if you lay with the dogs, you get flees.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:29 AM
Jan 2021

This is as obvious as the nose on your face. Yet, these people act clueless.

eppur_se_muova

(36,281 posts)
55. He was angered by 45's *PERSONAL* disloyalty, not his acts of treason.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:37 AM
Jan 2021

No points for that. Gov't of laws, not men. Uglicans don't get that.

NCjack

(10,279 posts)
60. Pence almost did the right thing as the Trump "p*ssy grabbing tape"
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:58 AM
Jan 2021

surfaced. He almost backed out of being #2 on the ticket with Trump. But, he sold himself to Trump, who is a vicious slave master. Don't feel sorry for Pence -- he put himself in his present position.

Response to NCjack (Reply #60)

AwakeAtLast

(14,132 posts)
68. As a former Hoosier who lived under a Pence Governorship
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 04:48 PM
Jan 2021

I have absolutely no empathy to give. Along with any Fucks.

May he begin to reap all that has been sown in the past ten years!

Yeehah

(4,589 posts)
69. Ahhhh...poor Mikey. Give Mommy's boy a glass of milk and send him to bed!
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 04:55 PM
Jan 2021

With the waterproof mattress cover.

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