Mike Pompeo: "Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is"

[Penn_Quaker_Girl]

You ever lived with a South-Asian, bronz?

We make some bomb-ass food and are always the life of the party.

(In the case of a girl, you will find long black or brown hair everywhere, though -- I'm sorry, that's just the way it is).  

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

He's running.

Yep. That was my first thought, too. This is him choosing his lane and placing his starting blocks.

I just don't see him getting far. A dominionist pretending to be a populist with a charisma befitting the (unelected) diplomat he is?

He's also fat. Americans are fat but don't seem to like overweight politicians. And before anybody mentions DJT, his supporters are brainwashed and think he looks like prime Arnold.

The last four Republican Presidents have been:

a movie and reality-TV actor turned politician,
a wealthy businessman turned politician (who was the actor's #2),
the wealthy businessman's son, and,
a failed businessman turned reality-TV actor.


I don't think he'll go that far either, but past experience certainly suggests he has a shot.

[politics_king]

The GOP is screwed once 2024 comes around. These idiots really think embracing racism is the answer. Morons.

[randomusername]

He's running.

Yep. That was my first thought, too. This is him choosing his lane and placing his starting blocks.

I just don't see him getting far. A dominionist pretending to be a populist with a charisma befitting the (unelected) diplomat he is?

He's also fat. Americans are fat but don't seem to like overweight politicians. And before anybody mentions DJT, his supporters are brainwashed and think he looks like prime Arnold.

The last four Republican Presidents have been:

a movie and reality-TV actor turned politician,
a wealthy businessman turned politician (who was the actor's #2),
the wealthy businessman's son, and,
a failed businessman turned reality-TV actor.


I don't think he'll go that far either, but past experience certainly suggests he has a shot.

You're greatly minimizing HW's achievements in government before becoming VP.

[Santander]

The last four Republican Presidents have been:

a movie and reality-TV actor turned politician,
a wealthy businessman turned politician (who was the actor's #2),
the wealthy businessman's son, and,
a failed businessman turned reality-TV actor.


I don't think he'll go that far either, but past experience certainly suggests he has a shot.

In other words, they run candidates people like. Maybe Democrats should try doing the same thing instead of rigging the primaries for people like Hillary.

[Hindsight was 2020]

I do love when RW politicians repeat rhetoric that is commonly used on anti-SWJ social media and “the intellectual dark web” and the normies reaction is “bro that sh*t is just racist”

[QAnonKelly]

Says the guy who wouldn’t have been considered white a century ago.

[Badger]

He's running.

Yep. That was my first thought, too. This is him choosing his lane and placing his starting blocks.

I just don't see him getting far. A dominionist pretending to be a populist with a charisma befitting the (unelected) diplomat he is?

He's also fat. Americans are fat but don't seem to like overweight politicians. And before anybody mentions DJT, his supporters are brainwashed and think he looks like prime Arnold.

The last four Republican Presidents have been:

a movie and reality-TV actor turned politician,
a wealthy businessman turned politician (who was the actor's #2),
the wealthy businessman's son, and,
a failed businessman turned reality-TV actor.


I don't think he'll go that far either, but past experience certainly suggests he has a shot.

You're greatly minimizing HW's achievements in government before becoming VP.

True. But let's face it that unlike every Democratic president after Kennedy, the dude was born on third base and thought he hit a triple.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

I hate a lot of the Woke stuff as much as BRTD or anyone else does, but multiculturalism is literally a founding philosophy of this country. Other than a few blue bloods in Maine or the South, how many of us are not descended from immigrants?

[Crane]

Ok, boomer.

[Progressive Pessimist]

This is a fairly generic, obvious take from a Republican. It's basically their MO and suggests to me that he might throw his hat into the 2024 ring when he gets the chance. However, what makes this quote even more worthy of mockery beyond the obvious is that he just outright made up the term "Wokeism."

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Reminds me of that unaired(?) KKK ad the LBJ campaign made:

[DINGO Joe]

Be interesting to see, it's been awhile since a candidate ran against the Italians and Irish.

[R.P. McM]

Pompeo reminds me of John Carroll Lynch. Not playing Marge Gunderson's husband, obviously, but rather the suspected Zodiac killer.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

All the -isms

Pompeo boldly admits Trumpism and Conservatism have no place in America 

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Yeah, this is why I was sympathetic to the cause.  Maybe you see it as "white supremacy"; I see it as the return to 80s-90s style liberalism.  We don't see color/race or at least don't make it the main issue in every debate on issues.

[AtorBoltox]

Good to see republican-ism and capital-ism aren't part of America

[SevenEleven]

Political correctness hurts nobody and is a good thing. It's a shame that even some Democrats dislike it.

PC means "polite and cordial", a concept Republicans seem to have no concern for.

[VAR]

^Exactly.

[Santander]

Political correctness hurts nobody and is a good thing. It's a shame that even some Democrats dislike it.

PC means "polite and cordial", a concept Republicans seem to have no concern for.

We don't have time for political correctness.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Political correctness hurts nobody and is a good thing. It's a shame that even some Democrats dislike it.

PC means "polite and cordial", a concept Republicans seem to have no concern for.

Problem with that, is "polite and cordial" was something associated with the upper classes going back forever in history.  When you have a populist movement; they will see these rules as ways to keep them down.  In short, PC culture = classist.

[Person Man]

Political correctness hurts nobody and is a good thing. It's a shame that even some Democrats dislike it.

PC means "polite and cordial", a concept Republicans seem to have no concern for.

Problem with that, is "polite and cordial" was something associated with the upper classes going back forever in history.  When you have a populist movement; they will see these rules as ways to keep them down.  In short, PC culture = classist.

You can frame it in populist undertones. Tell people not to be douches. It’s that easy.