{"id":31403,"date":"2018-02-11T13:20:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31403"},"modified":"2018-02-11T13:20:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T21:20:34","slug":"pence-spreads-gospel-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/11\/pence-spreads-gospel-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Pence Spreads Gospel of Hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I saw the Olympic Games as a possible vehicle for peace in Korea.&#160; Anytime we can get a a nuclear armed megalomaniac like Kim Jong Un to take a step back from the edge, that has to be a positive thing.&#160; The rapprochement&#160; between Moon Dae In and Kim Yo Jong, which included plans to meet, are just such a step.&#160; Unfortunately, the less intelligent and less wise nuclear armed megalomaniac insists on using tiny hands to beat his war drum, so he sent a troll, Vice Resident Pence, to Pyeomgchang to spread his pseudo-Christian gospel of hate.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"TrumpNuclear\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"TrumpNuclear\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TrumpNuclear.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite global calls for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23KoreanPeace&amp;src=tyah\" target=\"_blank\">#KoreanPeace<\/a> and hopes that U.S. Vice President Mike Pence would use his trip to South Korea for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games to engage in diplomatic talks to ease rising tensions with North Korea, Pence remained icy toward the country&#8217;s delegation.<\/p>\n<p>As he left the Olympics on Saturday, Pence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/10\/politics\/pence-south-korea-japan-no-daylight-north-korea\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> reporters aboard Air Force Two that he was &quot;encouraged&quot; by his talks with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and claimed &quot;there is no daylight between the United States, the Republic of Korea, and Japan on the need to continue to isolate North Korea economically and diplomatically until they abandon their nuclear ballistic missile program&quot;\u2014despite the radically different approaches Pence and Moon took regarding North Korea&#8217;s presence at the games.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At Olympics opening ceremony, Pence refuses to stand for any country except the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5erLr66U5M\">https:\/\/t.co\/5erLr66U5M<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d7deL3bGoz\">pic.twitter.com\/d7deL3bGoz<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thinkprogress\/status\/962433379907133440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>   <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    <\/p>\n<p>While Moon both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JChengWSJ\/status\/962222370776731648\" target=\"_blank\">met<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/annafifield\/status\/962316141879152642\" target=\"_blank\">attended events<\/a> with Kim Yo Jong\u2014the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a key representative for the country at the Olympics\u2014Pence declined to acknowledge her, even when they were seated near to each other:<\/p>\n<p>Pence&#8217;s blatant refusal to engage in diplomacy came as a clear rejection of demands from around the globe that he use his presence at the Olympics to de-escalate nuclear tensions that have ramped up since President Donald Trump took office. Pence instead reiterated messages the world has come to expect from the Trump administration on the topic of North Korea; he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/02\/07\/putting-dent-olympic-diplomacy-pence-vows-most-aggressive-sanctions-yet-north-korea\" target=\"_blank\">vowed<\/a> to impose the &quot;toughest and most aggressive&quot; economic sanctions &quot;ever,&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/sports\/olympics2016\/2018\/02\/10\/heading-home-pence-insists-daylight-north-korea\/Bfulfg5S73VP4cYuxW8n5O\/story.html?s_campaign=bostonglobe%3Asocialflow%3Atwitter\" target=\"_blank\">insisted<\/a> the country was trying to &quot;hijack the message and imagery&quot; of the games, and stayed seated as the joint team of athletes from the two Koreas entered the Opening Ceremony on Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/02\/10\/ignoring-calls-peace-effort-pence-refused-engage-north-koreans-olympic-games\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That was hugely disrespectful to both Koreas.&#160; Somebody really needs to hide the Fuhrer&#8217;s button<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw the Olympic Games as a possible vehicle for peace in Korea.&#160; Anytime we can get a a nuclear armed megalomaniac like Kim Jong Un to take a step back from the edge, that has to be a positive thing.&#160; The rapprochement&#160; between Moon Dae In and Kim Yo Jong, which included plans to <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/11\/pence-spreads-gospel-of-hate\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}