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Mike Pence tries to make a joke at Pete Buttigieg's expense, has to resort to homophobia [1]
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Date: 2023-03-13
I’m not a huge fan of slamming bad joke-telling, because so much of humor is subjective. But what is not subjective is lame-ass jokes that were funny more than 30 years ago, when the best excuse most of us have for laughing at them at the time is that we didn’t know any better. There is also a difference between some hack comedian telling hack jokes in a comedy club, and a politician trying to tell political jokes who resorts to old homophobic and misogynistic tropes. Have a more meaningful point of view if your job is to supposedly lead people!
The difference is that we can and should criticize them in the public sphere.
x An honest question for you, @Mike_Pence, after your attempted joke this weekend. If your grandchild was born prematurely and placed on a ventilator at two months old - their tiny fingers wrapped around yours as the monitors beep in the background - where would you be? pic.twitter.com/pCWvl8pb5N — Chasten Buttigieg (@Chasten) March 13, 2023
Politically, I’m not a huge Pete Buttigieg fan. Of course, I’m even less of a fan of Mike Pence—a man who believes the 1998 Disney film Mulan was an attempt to groom women for the military—and the rest of his morally bankrupt political party. In calling the secretary of transportation out for taking paternity leave while also being the vice president for an administration best known for vacuuming up tax payer money into private businesses and estates so the then-president could play golf, Pence has once again exposed himself as a true little-league politician.
The real issue in the end is that people like Mike Pence do not have policy alternatives—or any actionable ideas that would have been any different from Secretary Buttigieg’s. If Mike Pence had happened to be transportation secretary in 2021, he would definitely not have taken paternity leave to be with a new child, and he would have done even less than nothing about our infrastructure crises.
Pence is a what passes for a conservative Christian these days: He may seem nice, but he is not kind. His belief in phrases that begin with “Thou shall” extend only as far as people doing what he says and believing him to be righteous about something they’ve vaguely heard about on Sunday mornings since they were children.
The fact of the matter is that Mike Pence, politically and intellectually, isn’t in the same league as Pete Buttigieg, and this has always been true.
x Pete Buttigieg really went on Fox News and asked "why an evangelical Christian like Mike Pence wants to be on a ticket with a president caught with a porn star." pic.twitter.com/PQnodtivC8 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 8, 2020
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