When they don't have to pretend anymore!

[Soph0571]

You think you are King of the International Stage.
You have a Christmas Party and Invite 900 people
70 rock up.

Gotta tell ya, when that shit happens you know deep in your bones that people were only being nice to ya cause of what you do, not who you are. A turn out rate of 7.7%, to a Christmas Party hosted by the Secretary of frigging State, is a wonderfully tragic example of when you no longer have power and people no longer have to give a shit about you or your feelings.

What a splendid way for one of Trumps key enablers to exit stage right.

[niyad]

1. Off to greatest with you!

[secondwind]

2. How true!!!!

Am relishing every minute of this............

[safeinOhio]

3. Well said

and very true.

loo

[patricia92243]

4. Who was this?

[Soph0571]

8. Pompeo

Hehe

[FM123]

5. Who are they going to blame this time, the tik tok kids again???

[Siwsan]

6. I was thinking that exact same thing.

Hopefully more people start waking up to reality.

[Tanuki]

7. It was insanely irresponsible to have this big party in the midst of

a raging pandemic. It says something about how selfish Pompeo and his wife are and how little regard they have for the health and safety of others.

[FSogol]

28. Pompeo wants to secure the Trump crowd's financing because he plans on running in 2024.

He's the same kind of corrupt immoral scumbag as Trumpy, but he has the intellectual capability and work ethic to accomplish his goals.
He's much more dangerous than Pence or anyone else in the Trumpian orbit.

[Tanuki]

31. Yes....his multiple opulent parties have amounted to stealing taxpayer resources

to underwrite his future presidential campaign.

[NCDem47]

9. Total humiliation and repudiation.

Did you get the message Mike? Oh, and there's a pandemic going on.

Now, more packing and less party planning.

[MyOwnPeace]

19. But he doesn't have to pack........

Remember, he's getting ready for the second tRump Mis-administration....

[Cosmo Blues]

10. I was just delighted to hear about this

Since last night I have wondered who were the people who showed up? I was hoping they were just the Kansans

[Soph0571]

34. I reckon they were all related through DNA

With a couple of MAGA's mixed in.

How are you love? Looking forward to Christmas?

[Cosmo Blues]

37. He thought he was going to run for president or senator

I'm doing okay, I went to a little outdoor concert yesterday, saxophonist /flautist played a little Christmas music, she played with Joe Cocker so it wasn't the usual sterile Christmas music. A couple more gifts and I'm done. You seem to be as hard-charging as ever, are you having a good holiday season?

[Soph0571]

38. Heading to the Twin on Friday

Small family bubble, my twin and family and my mother. I have been isolating for the last two weeks to keep the mother safe. Working from the twins kitchen next week. It is good. Home. Twin and my mini me niece, mother and red wine and cheese for two weeks. I have got the twin and hubby fortnum and mason Christmas crackers - other than that nothing done yet, although I am at the hairdressers tomorrow, cause it is all about me!!!!! LOLOLOL

[Cosmo Blues]

39. I got to the last line

And laughed and laughed, all about you huh? Happy Merry

[japple]

11. According to the WAPO, 70 RSVP'd, but fewer than that showed up.

Estimated around 50 people and Pompeo didn't give his planned speech.

[Soph0571]

35. So more like 5.5%. Even better.

They spit on him!!!

[Pepsidog]

12. Hope he fades away somewhere waiting for the rapture.

[Lonestarblue]

20. Maybe the Rapture could just go ahead and take him (and a few other people) now.

I truly find it difficult to understand how supposedly intelligent people believe in all this magical thinking.

[czarjak]

13. Who knew hastening The Second Coming would be so hard, huh, Mikey?

[rickyhall]

14. Gollum, a true picture of Pompeo.

[George II]

15. And this morning it was announced that Pompeo is in self-isolation because of exposure to the virus

[Aerator]

24. Probably his self-isolation is more about embarrassment than Covid

[Soph0571]

36. Exactly this...

Self isolation for the virus my arse. Guidance on covid be damned for this super spreader crowd... he ain't no Paul on the road to Damascus. No friends, no authority and as much as he tried he has also failed to bring about the end times. Sad.

[PatrickforO]

16. You reap what you sow. Trumpy is about to find that out over the next few years.

Bigly.

[DemoTex]

26. "Sow the wind; reap the whirlwind" .. "Pride goeth before the fall."

Trump's Ship of Fools has sailed, and its gonna get blown badly and fall off the edge of their flat earth.

[PatrickforO]

29. I hope so. I think the republic, and the American people, need

the catharsis of justice being done, accountability coming home to roost.

[mshasta]

17. plus someone had covid....

now he needs to quarantine

[magicarpet]

18. Covid is a fraud and a hoax,...

Party on.... Praise Jesus.

Pompeo for pResident 2024.

Fuck that,... fuck him.

[pandr32]

21. Hopefully "stage right" leads off a cliff

[Soph0571]

22. I should have said stage far right

LOL

[pandr32]

33. It was not necessary. Already fit.

[PatSeg]

23. Amazing

These fools who have been around for a long time and are highly educated, yet were naïve enough to believe their own hype. Plus it would seem that people like Pompeo haven't accepted that it is over already. Time to start packing and move on, not time to throw huge parties in the middle of a pandemic at the end of your term. What fantasy world is the guy living in?

[BobTheSubgenius]

25. Couldn't happen to a shittier guy.

"You must try the schadenfreude. It's just delicious!"

[blue cat]

27. He didn't show up himself

Must be because he found out he was exposed.

[Larissa]

30. Pompeo isn't worth going home with Covid-19

What a dysfunctional, out of touch administration, still planning super spreader parties that folks in their right mind wouldn't be caught dead at (or dead from.) Even the Pope kicked Pompeo to the curb when he wouldn't meet with Pompeo for an obvious Trump Camp photo op at the Vatican. Angela Merkel said she wasn't attending Trump's recently planned G-7 summit at Camp David because of Covid. Trump had a tantrum and canceled the entire event, probably when it seemed apparent that Angela wasn't going to be the only no show.

Hate to pile on (not really), but I am still roaring about Trump's neighbors in Florida announcing that they don't want Spanky living his best life at Mar-a-Lago. Donald is the wart that keeps coming back. First the Big Apple shows Ivanka the door before she even opened it and now this. Maybe Trump can build a family compound in North Korea or out on the Russian Steppes. Can Donald ride a horse?

[Upthevibe]

32. Yep....

This says it all....ba bye - ba bye - just effing go......

[Grokenstein]

40. They hate everyone, but fancy themselves beloved by all.

Watching them learn otherwise is...well, not the BEST revenge, but a nice start.

[Sogo]

41. I just have to say that that animation causes cognitive dissonance.

I found it impossible to read the copy above it.

All the cutsie little animations people fill their message boxes with have the same effect on me, as well as a screen that flashes ads continuously competing for a reader's attention.

I'm sure I'm not the only one....

It's rather like a PTSD or epilepsy trigger.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

43. Blocking giphy calms things down considerably, I'm told.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

42. I'd prefer a trap door on that stage. With 'gators. And centipedes. And leeches.