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  I'll never forget when Pompeo said "there will be a smooth transition....to the second Trump administration" long after the election had been decided. It showed how much of a pussy he is, completely unwilling to acknowledge obvious truths if he thinks it might hurt him politically. Luckily, Pompeo is never going to be president. He has the charisma of a wet mop, and, as far as I can tell, literally no one of any ideology actually likes him. I'm not sure if it's a humiliation fetish, or if he's just a moron who can't read the writing on the wall, but I really don't understand why he keeps putting himself out there.
context: “There was a bad day at the Capitol. The security team there failed to prevent these guys from rioting there.”
  
  Yeah the fault is the security and not the pro Trump rioters. Methinks Pompeo also blames female rape victims for not defending their virtue better.
  Seriously, the revisionist history is alarming. We see Republicans making every bad faith argument to obscure the fact that Trump supporters wound up by Trump himself attacked the First Branch of government because they didn't like what they were doing.
  So consider Pompeo complicit when he or any other asshat says shit like this. >
  
  He knows full well he's lying, there's no way even Pompeo is this thick. But he still views himself as a possible GQP presidential nominee and, barring that, at least able to pitch his new book and make a decent little chunk of change.
  That's why he's been leaning into the more extreme right crowd and pandering to authoritarians (see: his comments attacking Khashoggi) >
  
  Exactly. He is one of the more terrifying Republican Presidential hopefuls. He is playing up the Christian Nationalism like Pence, the racism like Trump, but he  seems much more belligerent and intentionally callous. Like, Trumps callousness is an outgrowth of his narcissism, but Pompeos is that AND borderline militant Christianity.
  I think he's also one of those end-of-days believers who thinks we can and should hasten the apocalypse so the rapture can happen.
  He's been angling for thus for years, hosting "Madison Dinners" at the Dept of State that he said were about having conversations with all kinds of people and helping him as Sec of State. Really it was conservative donors and stars he wanted to add to his donor list.