Admittedly, I’m not a brain surgeon.
But I truly can’t figure out why Pence refused to endorse Trump.
He’s a conservative Christian. He is pro-life. He has very strong beliefs, goes to church… he’s a gazillion miles away from me on guns — even to the RIGHT of Trump on gun issues.
Hmm. He is a champion of tax cuts — he cut taxes as a governor, has supported tax cuts as a method for growth — this year he started his own $10 million campaign JUST to preserve the Trump-era tax cuts that are set to expire next year when I win and let those expire. And then also raise tax on everyone.
He won’t buy into the 1200 genders or the stuff I love like the requirement to have DEI in all parts of government which is probably a waste of countless millions but does teach important things like asking an Asian colleague for help with a math problem could be racist and that men can become pregnant.
I just don’t get it. I debated him. I don’t like him. He’s calm, cool, smart — but strange. When we refer to Republicans as weird — he’s like the poster child of weird. He won’t go to dinner without his wife. Like old-fashioned weird.
But. He seemed like a guy of convictions. His values seemed to mean something to him. He was rigid in his beliefs. Mine —- change with the wind. I’m against fracking, I’m for fracking… I won’t take away your guns, I want to ban guns. I put people in jail and kept them there long after they should have been there for just possessing a little weed… and then publicly laughed/cackled/bragged about my own weed use. What do my handlers want me to say?? — I say it. I’m for giving illegal immigrants free health care, sex changes, abortions, phones, food, housing — whatever they want. And taking more tax from Americans to pay for that… Regardless of whether I said the opposite yesterday.
This is a binary race. Trump vs. me. Trump may have scorned him, or maybe tried to have him killed — I’m not sure — but his platform is Pence’s. And when you have a choice… do you vote for the person that shares your platform, your vision of America? Apparently not in his case.
When I have something that’s bothering me sometimes I ask questions aloud — not to anyone, just to myself, as I puzzle it over and over in my mind. It can help. But with all the secret service around me — it can get confusing like I’m actually asking them a question…like this morning:
“Why would Pence do that?”
“Why would he do what, Madame Vice President?”
“Oh nothing, I was just asking myself something aloud” and then, as if reflexes took over I said, “Why would former Vice President Pence say he cannot endorse Trump when my policies are so very opposed to his personal core values?”
“Ego over country, Madame Vice President.”
I glared at him — what did he just say!? And he coughed a bit and said, “He’s making the obvious choice, Comrade Harris.” Another glare from me, and then another cough from the obvious idiot. “I mean, surely nothing to do with ego, Madame Vice President.” And he coughed a few times again, and I swear under that cough was “Fuck Pence.”
Fuck it, some puzzles you just can’t figure out; they just have no answer.
We good.