{"id":6425,"date":"2018-12-17T13:53:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2018-12-20T18:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T01:36:43","slug":"oval-office-follies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6425","title":{"rendered":"Oval Office Follies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big story this week was the Oval Office budget meeting between America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump, Vice President and modern day Puritan Mike Pence and Democratic House and Senate leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. We&#8217;ve had our doubts about both Pelosi and Schumer because they&#8217;re both corporatists who do their fair share of cozying up to moneyed interests and they&#8217;ve shown in the past a willingness to cave in a little too quickly to Republican demands (like many other Democrats have done in the past twenty years, i.e. the Iraq War, Patriot Act, etc&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>But we&#8217;ve got to admit that we like what we saw from Pelosi and Schumer. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2018\/12\/11\/trumps-real-housewives-oval-office-chuck-nancy-edition\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.86808a374042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They made Trump look like a buffoon by getting him to take ownership of any looming government shutdown on video for the whole country to see<\/a>. Meanwhile, Mike Pence sat like a bump on a log in his chair, doing absolutely zilch, zippo, nada, bupkis, diddly-squat. We love all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/12\/12\/all-the-vice-presidents-memes-reading-mike-pences-stillness-in-the-oval-office-showdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pence memes that are making the rounds this past week<\/a>. We like that comment that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/mike-pence-looks-hes-strip-club-msnbc-panelists-ridicule-vice-presidents-1254906\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he looked like he was at a strip club<\/a>.\u00a0Yes, America&#8230; if Trump is impeached, then we&#8217;ll be in the stoic, ultra-conservative hands of Puritan Pence, which gives no sane person in America a warm fuzzy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6428\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6428\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumppencepelosiwhitehousemeeting.jpg\" alt=\"In a recent Oval Office budget meeting with Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi, Vice President and modern day Puritan Mike Pence tries to keep his thoughts pure while America's CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump tries to keep his thoughts empty.\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumppencepelosiwhitehousemeeting.jpg 525w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumppencepelosiwhitehousemeeting-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 85vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump and Vice President and modern day Puritan Mike Pence use impressive conservative skills to outmaneuver Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi in a recent Oval Office budget meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big story this week was the Oval Office budget meeting between America&#8217;s CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump, Vice President and modern day Puritan Mike Pence and Democratic House and Senate leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. We&#8217;ve had our doubts about both Pelosi and Schumer because they&#8217;re both corporatists who do their fair share of cozying &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6425\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oval Office Follies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,60,8,68,85,3,1853,198],"tags":[916,1824,74,73,252,69,22,20,389,27,107,9,1852,739,199,1851,21,1850,1838,1063,98,596,235,296,1381,188,19,1849,738,47,48,694,1391],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6432,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}