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Remember that time when Pence made a last minute decision to not sign an application for a grant that would have made preschool in Indiana more accessible and help fix our crumbling infrastructure?

Remember that stern letter that a bunch of big businesses in Indiana wrote to Pence because he signed a law that was discouraging business from both within and without the state of Indiana?

Oh, and that time that Pence caused an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana because the only clinic that did HIV testing was a Planned Parenthood and his fixation on defunding reproductive rights caused it to close- even though that particular clinic didn’t even offer abortion services?

And then there’s the “Pence Must Go” signs all over central Indiana…

And who could forget the time that he planned on using taxpayer dollars to fund a news outlet because he couldn’t control the negative image surrounding him from the press.

What about the time that the FEC had to rewrite laws to prevent challenging candidates from using campaign funds for personal use because Mike Pence used 30% of his campaign funds on mortgage payments and golf tournaments?

And who else remembers when they were giving states a chance to individually tailor their Clean Energy laws to fit the needs of the state and Pence just said ‘no’ and didn’t offer any alternative?

Hey, what about that time that Pence stated that condoms were ‘too modern’ of a solution to HIV and STI prevention and that abstinence was the best choice?

Remember also that 49% of pregnancies in Indiana are unintended, and that out of 1000 teenagers, an average of 49 will become pregnant before they age of 19. And that STI cases have reached record rates for the state of Indiana.

Oh! Remember when Pence went against the advice of legal professionals and signed a good number of laws that mean that you are classified as a drug dealer (whether proven or not) if you are found with a certain quantity of drugs in your possession, and increased the minimum sentence to ten years- even when it was argued by many legal sources that the best way to combat drug use is rehabilitation and not incarceration?

How about the time that he campaigned heavily against raising the minimum wage to match neighboring states, even though an overwhelming majority of Hoosiers polled said that they support a $9/hr wage and approximately 93000 residents of the state bring home less than $300 a week?

Or that time he stripped the office of state superintended of all its meaningful power because he didn’t like who won.  (More.)

That person being Glenda Ritz, who by the way, received more votes than Pence.

Of course, I thought that it needed no mention, but who could ever forget the national embarrassment that was the RFRA laws, which allowed business-owners to refuse service to people if they felt ‘religiously burdened,’ which essentially boiled down to discriminating people who are part of the LGBTQ community. 

And you know I’d love to rant about Mike Pence all day long, but for those of you who want a more comprehensive list of how incompetent he’s been as our governor, this one sums it up pretty nicely and has sources! 

Oh, but don’t take my word for it: here’s another masterpost of all this and more. 

And just in case you thought he was done being awful- how about the time that Pence and Trump made a visit to Louisiana despite the fact that politicians were asked NOT to visit the flooded areas for essentially photo ops because its a further strain on resources? Meanwhile, South Bend IN is currently experiencing a flood where a visit would not be a negative impact the resources, but a photo op in Baton Rouge is more important somehow. 

Also seemingly less important than an unwelcome photo op is the soil in East Chicago, IN- which has a lead content 30 times what is considered unsafe levels for children to be in contact with. This comes from a man whose initial decision not to run for President was based on his ‘need to focus on his home state.’ 

Of course, everyone remembers how the RFRA, a law that was written in the spirit of LGBTQ discrimination, was strongly protested but signed anyway. No one could have possibly guessed that people would try to use it to justify child abuse- except for literally every person who protested. 

But to put a little more levity in this post, Purvi Patel’s sentence of feticide has been reduced to ‘child neglect’ and she’s out of jail. So that’s good news! 

Of course, injustices like these haven’t stopped radical anti-choice laws from being signed in during the entire run of the controversy. 

Remember how he opposed the Matt Shepard Hate Crimes Act??? (I can’t add a link bc I’m on mobile but this is true)

Don’t worry, I got you. 

“The president has used his position as commander in chief to advance a radical social agenda, when he should have used it to advance legislation that would unequivocally support our troops.” Because, you know… these things actually correlate. His complaint was also that this would curb freedom of speech.

Let us remember that the Matt Shepard Hate Crimes Act is simply: Conceived as a response to the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., the measure expands the 1969 United States federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

So we can reasonably deduce here that our fluffy Q-tip of a Vice President thinks that the literal murder of people based on their gender identity, disability, and sexual orientation is okay under the First Amendment.

And I mean, it’s not like he used his private email server to conduct business as a Governor and it’s TOTALLY not like it was hacked or anything. That would be… well, hypocritical.

And shortly after Trump equated the presence of anti-racist protesters   in Charlottesville to the literal Nazis that they were protesting, Mike Pence equated Trump himself to Teddy Roosevelt in a public speech:

“Just as President Roosevelt exhorted his fellow Americans to ‘dare to be great,’ President Donald Trump has dared our nation to ‘make America great again,’ and we’ll do it with all of our friends in the world”

And that certainly makes my bones shiver, boy-howdy. 

And here’s a super-responsible thing for a Vice President to do: spend taxpayer money to attend a Colts game  for all of five minutes so that he could walk back out to counter-protest racist police brutality. Because that doesn’t sound like a PR stunt at all. 

(my favorite version of the red sign, which I couldn’t find, has “into the sun” spray painted on)

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Here’s your dose of “What the Fuck Is Going On” news (April 5th, 2017 - April 6th, 2017 Edition)

• The U.S. has bombed a Syrian airbase by launching dozens of Tomahawk missiles. This comes after Trump and the administration had previously announced that getting Assad out is not a priority, and that the U.S. will keep out of conflicts that don’t directly deal with the United States’ security interests. This change comes after a gas attack that killed at least 85 people and wounded hundreds. Currently there is an unknown number of casualties after today’s U.S. attack. (source)
  
  
• Speaking from the Mar-a-Lago resort, here’s Trump’s official statement on the missile attacks.
  
  
• Steve Bannon has been removed from the National Security Council. However, Bannon will still retain his security clearance and continue to serve in the White House as Trump’s chief strategist. (source)
  
  
• Citing no evidence, Trump said that former national security adviser, Susan Rice, committed a crime by seeking to learn the identities of Trump associates swept up in surveillance of foreign officials by United States spy agencies. Intelligence officials from both parties have stated that Rice’s actions were no unlawful or unusual. However, Trump is saying that this will be “one of the biggest stories of our time.” (source)
  
  
• Trump reflected on his first weeks in office by telling reporters “I think we’ve had one of the most successful 13 weeks in the history of the presidency.“ It’s only been 11 weeks. (source)
  
  
• Republicans in the Senate deployed their “nuclear option” to allow Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to go forward. They changed the Senate rules and fundamentally altered the way the Senate operates. This change will likely lead to ideologically extreme judges to easily pass confirmation since only a majority is required for confirmation now. (source)
  
  
• Rep. Devin Nunes announced that he will step aside from the Trump-Russia probe. This comes after ethics complaints came flooding in and he became personally investigated for “unauthorized disclosures of classified information in violation of House Rules, law, regulations, or other standards of conduct.” (source)
  
  
• It’s been revealed that Ivanka Trump quietly reached out to Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood, not long after Trump’s inauguration. Her purpose was to seek common ground on the issue of abortion and to fully understand what the organization does. However, Ivanka has continued to remain silent on matter regarding abortion, family planning, and Planned Parenthood as the Trump administrations seeks to attack it further. (source)
  
  
• The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to slash funding for programs that protect children from dangerous lead exposure. The EPA’s proposed cuts were revealed in a budget memo which showed funding cuts for two lead-based paint programs totaling more than $16 million and the elimination of six dozen full-time employees. This move will hit Black neighborhoods the hardest. (source)
  
  
• Republicans are still working on amending the failed health care bill to try to bring it back to the floor. However, they are going home on break for the next couple weeks. (source)
  
  
• Twitter has filed a federal lawsuit to block an order by the government that is demanding it reveal who is behind an anti-Trump account. The account claims to be a federal immigration employee and has been openly opposed to Trump’s immigration policies. (source)
  
  
• In response to the accusations of nepotism, Trump’s son, Eric, has responded that it’s just a part of life. “Nepotism is kind of a factor of life. We might be here because of nepotism, but we’re not still here because of nepotism. You know, if we didn’t do a good job, if we weren’t competent, believe me, we wouldn’t be in this spot.” Sure, bud. (source)
  
  
• Trump came to the defense of Fox News host, Bill O'Reilly after reports of sexual assault lawsuits were exposed. Reports showed that O'Reilly had payed off five women who accused him of sexual assault. Over 20 advertisers have pulled from O’Reilly’s show but Trump backed him up by saying “I think he’s a person I know well, he is a good person. I think he shouldn’t have settled; personally I think he shouldn’t have settled, because you should have taken it all the way. I don’t think Bill did anything wrong.” O’Reilly’s rating have gone up after this, btw. (source)
  
  
• According to documents, supreme court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied authors work in his book and an academic article he published and didn’t cite the source material. (source)
  
  
• Conservative groups have released a study showing what states will be hurt the hardest by Trump’s proposed border tax. The report predicts harm to Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas - all states Trump won in the 2016 presidential election. California, New Jersey, and Illinois will also be hit hard. The conservative group that released this did so because they are against Trump’s proposed plan. (source)
  

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