Mike Pence Had A Great Moment Jan 6th; All His Other Moments Suck

No hagiography of Mike Pence, please. Yes, he ultimately did the right thing Jan 6th and we should thank him and be grateful for that. But it doesn't erase all he defended, from "inject bleach" to Impeachment I, Impeachment II, every corrupt, self-enriching Trump deal, wanting to shoot protesters and his not only wanting Pence hanged that day, but attempting a coup against the lawful govt of the United States. Cliff provides breakdown & takedown of Pence's cowardice.

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so thursday we found out that at a key moment mike pence uh vice president of the united states chosen by donald trump to serve him um made the decision he was going to accept the actual real electors as every other vice president has done in the history of the united states and not join in a coup now i get the sort of you know the kind of temptation to allow him for that to call my hero i'll thank him for it and say he made the right decision but actually when you find out more you find out that he was thinking about not doing it he actually called dan quayle remember dan quayle a former vice president who couldn't spell potato and started a fight with a fictional character on tv murphy brown he called dan quilted do you think i could you know not accept the electors and dan quayle's like don't you even think about it his aides the top aides to mike pence some of whom have now gone public were saying yes he said do you think i could reject these don't you dare don't you dare in the end this guy who was scared to get in his own secret service um in a car with his own secret service because he thought he might not get out alive a guy who had donald trump that day calling for him to be hanged and no not just like ignoring that people were doing it apparently behind the scenes told mark meadows yeah it would be cool if my pens were hanged that same guy is the guy that sat there and watched donald trump why for years about kovitz so that hundreds of thousands of extra americans died of something preventable he's the one who's kissed the ass of the nra like so many other republicans and sat there and watched his tens hundreds of thousands of americans have died needlessly from gun violence he's a religious zealot who would not allow men and women to love other men and women would ban it in a handmaid's tale nightmare and also is fully supporting taking away women's most basic rights and trying to turn women into baby containers so let's remember who mike pence is he did the right thing that day but he sat for years and watched donald trump he watched donald trump extort president zelensky as part of a plot that's now turned into an attack as he as donald trump tried to weaken zelensky to get dirt on biden a two-fer if you would so that uh vladimir putin could exert control over ukraine and he was able to do that while trump was there because trump of course changed the gop platform and many other uh of the gop policies so putin could invade parts of ukraine could cyber attack ukraine could mess a mess in their elections attack them and it was only when he was gone that that putin had to actually attack sadly because joe biden wasn't going to let him do any of that um well mike pence sat there and watched this extortion take place of an ally of ours and he did nothing and since he found out that this man was trying to have him killed that day he's refused to speak out against donald trump he's refused to criticize donald trump all he said is that you know spoken about how he did the right thing that day and that that vice president could have done no differently and but he's refused to even utter a critical word that is a weak pathetic cowardly man everybody again i will thank him for what he did that day i am so thankful that in the end he didn't throw us further into chaos but please let's not make the mistake of sort of somehow conflicting that with courage conflicting i think in the end he did that because i think he was scared of being on the wrong side of a failed coup and going to prison scared of what of donald trump's insanity and where that might land him he didn't do the right thing for the right reasons he's not somebody we can trust he's a greasy just oily untrustworthy religious zealot and i think that people need to remember all this no hagiography i think i just pronounced that word wrong but that's okay um at least i didn't spell america wrong like lauren boebert um don't don't love him and don't allow him thank him for what he did today and realize he'd be an awful president and can't get anywhere near 1600 pennsylvania avenue if we're to continue as a functioning or at least semi-functioning republican